House Republicans are taking aim at President Obama's proposed fund to help coastal communities become more resilient to climate change.
CLIMATE: Republicans float resolution against coastal resilience plan
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LOBBYING: Electric utility group hires former House staffer
The Edison Electric Institute has added a former General Motors Co. lobbyist to its K Street team.
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CLIMATE: Dems urge Science chairman to rescind AG info request
Democratic members of New York's House delegation on Friday threw their weight behind state attorneys general who are investigating fossil fuel companies' activities in the area of climate change.
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CAMPAIGN 2016: Clinton could issue 'Clean Power Plan 2.0' -- consultant
If she's elected president, expect Democrat Hillary Clinton to consider using the Clean Air Act to issue "Clean Power Plan 2.0" and an economywide limit on carbon dioxide emissions, a climate and energy consultant predicted last week.
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NATIONAL PARKS: Police probe sexual harassment allegations against ranger
The former chief ranger of Canaveral National Seashore is under investigation by local police for allegedly sexually harassing women who used to work with him, a federal watchdog revealed today.
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WETLANDS: Judge rejects farmer's challenge to U.S. regulatory reach
A federal judge Friday ruled against a California farmer locked in a high-profile battle with federal regulators over the scope of the Clean Water Act.
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SUPREME COURT: Justices reject latest attack on mercury rule
The Supreme Court won't hear an appeal from states arguing that U.S. EPA's rule to cut mercury from power plants was illegally kept on the books.
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DEAD SEAS: Landmark water transfer creates environmental wasteland
IMPERIAL COUNTY, Calif. -- The Salton Sea has gone from a midcentury vacation spot for movie stars to a post-apocalyptic desert with mounds of dead fish here, gurgling "mud pots" there, blasts from a military bombing range on the horizon and sulfuric stench everywhere. The worst is yet to come.
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OREGON: Couple invents red tape in viral response to survey request
An Oregon couple's tongue-in-cheek response letter to a request by the state's Department of Fish and Wildlife has gone viral.
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NEW JERSEY: Clearcutting plan divides enviros
New Jersey is testing a new land management approach, and it's making some environmentalists mad.
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SUPERFUND: Idaho community suffers near Bunker Hill site
Since the 1880s, locals have mined in the Coeur d'Alene River Basin of northern Idaho, also called Silver Valley for its abundance of silver, lead and zinc.
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CHEMICALS: Hundreds of carcinogens found in Americans' bodies -- report
Hundreds of carcinogens have been detected in humans, according to a study released today.
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DOE: Agency wants to shutter science, energy museum
The Department of Energy is pushing to close the aging American Museum of Science and Energy.
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EPA: Court allows ex-employee's discrimination challenge
A former U.S. EPA employee can pursue her claim that her suspension was motivated by racial discrimination, a federal appeals court ruled today.
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BIOFUELS: Nissan preps ethanol fuel-cell technology
Nissan Motor Co. said it is developing fuel-cell vehicle technology using ethanol as a hydrogen source, a first for the industry.
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OIL AND GAS: Hundreds of wells surround Wyo. school shut down by leak
A Wyoming school shut down last month by a gas leak is surrounded by at least 700 active and abandoned wells within a 1-mile radius.
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WATER POLLUTION: EPA bans dumping fracking wastewater into sewage plants
U.S. EPA finalized a rule yesterday effectively banning companies from disposing of hydraulic fracturing wastewater in municipal sewage treatment plants.
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ENDANGERED SPECIES: Climate change claims 1st mammal extinction
Human-caused climate change appears to have taken its first mammalian victim: the Bramble Cay melomys.
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NATIONAL PARKS: Woman pleads guilty to vandalism at 7 sites
A San Diego woman accused of painting and drawing on rock formations in national parks across the West yesterday pleaded guilty to defacing government property.
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NATIONAL PARKS: Justices decline Glacier husband-killer's appeal
The Supreme Court won't hear an appeal in the case of a woman who admitted to killing her husband by pushing him off a cliff in Glacier National Park days after their wedding in 2013.
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