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She has been an avid moose-hunter since childhood and is still a strong believer in gun ownership. A considerable amount of her family's income comes from the gas company BP as her husband is an oil production operator for BP.. Palin said that she would sue the Interior Department over its decision to list the polar bear as a threatened species. Her litigation came from fear because Alaska produces fossil fuels, although the wording of the Interior Department decision went to great lengths to ward off any new restrictions on oil and gas drilling. Palin supports the aerial hunting of wolves and bears Palin spent $400,000 of state money to fund a media campaign to try and convince Alaskans to support aerial shooting Sarah Palin opposed a statewide ballot initiative to prohibit or restrict new mining operations that could affect salmon in the state's streams and rivers She pushed to build a natural-gas pipeline from Alaska's North Slope She is pushing to open Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling She has created a committee to forge Alaska's climate-change strategy, and has made Alaska an observer of the Western Climate Initiative She opposes a windfall profits tax on oil companies She has a chair on the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commissionmore
