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AQUACULTURE: Senate moves to end long-reviled catfish inspection program

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It took millions of dollars, seven years and forced floor action, but today the Senate voted to eliminate a catfish inspection program panned by critics as wasteful and unnecessary.

APPROPRIATIONS: Subcommittee quickly approves spending bill for EPA, Interior

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A House panel swiftly signed off this morning on a fiscal 2017 spending bill for U.S. EPA, the Interior Department and the Forest Service, as members postponed looming battles over funding levels and policy riders for another day.

CLIMATE: White House rule would scrutinize contractor emissions

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The White House today proposed a rule to provide the administration with greater understanding of the greenhouse gas emissions of federal contractors and vendors.

PUBLIC LANDS: Utah lawmaker says Bundy attorney barking up wrong money tree

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A Utah state lawmaker who is leading the push to transfer federal lands to states signaled yesterday he has no plans to raise cash for Cliven Bundy's legal defense stemming from the rancher's 2014 standoff with the Bureau of Land Management over trespassing cattle.

COAL: Stream rule -- in the works for 7 years -- goes to White House

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The Interior Department sent its controversial stream protection rule to the White House yesterday to begin the final phase of review ahead of its expected release this summer.

PUBLIC LANDS: Meet the advisers driving Obama's monuments agenda

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With the flick of a pen, President Obama could secure permanent protections for millions more acres in the West. A small group of advisers will likely help him decide what tracts should become national monuments.

GRID: EEI's Aaronson discusses government, utility coordination on cyberthreats

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How are the public and private sectors coordinating to address the increasing global threat of cyber and physical attacks on the grid? During today's OnPoint, Scott Aaronson, managing director for cyber and infrastructure security at the Edison Electric Institute, discusses the vulnerabilities facing the U.S. grid and the latest strategic planning between the federal government and utility industry on managing these threats.

THAILAND: Nation closes diving sites over coral bleaching crisis

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Thailand's national parks department has indefinitely closed 10 popular diving sites in an effort to stop a coral bleaching crisis.

BRAZIL: Political turmoil could ax environmental project reviews

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While Brazil roils in political and economic turmoil, pro-development forces are trying to pass a constitutional amendment that would expedite infrastructure projects such as dams, highways and mines.

MINNESOTA: State partners with Land O'Lakes to reduce farm runoff

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Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton (D) and officials from Land O'Lakes Inc. announced a partnership yesterday to enlist farmers to reduce agricultural water pollution.

OHIO: Lawmakers aim to cut phosphorus runoff to Lake Erie

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Lawmakers in Ohio offered a first look yesterday at a plan to reduce toxic algae blooms in Lake Erie.

NEW JERSEY: Recycling industry remains under mob control -- investigators

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The recycling industry in New Jersey remains under the influence of organized crime, which finds ways to profit by illegally dumping contaminated material, according to state investigators.

SUPERFUND: Kids born before cleanups do worse in school than siblings

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Children living near toxic waste sites that were already cleaned do better academically and behaviorally than their older siblings.

AIR POLLUTION: White House starts reviewing regional haze guidance for states

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The Office of Management and Budget is now reviewing a package of proposed U.S. EPA guidance for states on implementation of the second round of regional haze reduction planning.

INTERIOR: IG touts jail time for offenders, millions saved

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The Department of the Interior's Office of Inspector General hails the impact of its investigations in a new report to Congress.

COAL: 3rd suspect charged in executive's slaying

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A third person has been charged in the death of former coal executive Bennett Hatfield.

AIR POLLUTION: Tentative deal reached in suit over Ga. biomass plant

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U.S. EPA would make a decision by mid-December on an environmental group's challenge to a permit for a metropolitan Atlanta power plant under a tentative lawsuit settlement.

WILDLIFE: Judge blocks FWS from authorizing cormorant kills

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The Fish and Wildlife Service can no longer authorize the killing of double-crested cormorants in the 24 states east of the Mississippi River after a federal judge ruled yesterday that the agency must conduct new environmental reviews.

MARINE MAMMALS: Mobile app helps protect whales

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Conservation advocates and government agencies that want to protect whales are saying a mobile app that helps mariners steer clear could keep these marine mammals alive as whale-watching season approaches.

OCEANS: Deeper coral has better chance of surviving bleaching

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A U.N. report found that deepwater coral reef structures have a better chance of surviving bleaching than their shallow-water counterparts.
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