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ENDANGERED SPECIES: Scientists use satellites to track troubled sea turtles

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The Nature Conservancy, scientists and conservationists will begin tagging hawksbill sea turtles with satellite trackers in key South Pacific breeding grounds, the organization said yesterday.

CONSERVATION: Single-crop farming expands, threatening last U.S. grasslands

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Researchers in North Dakota warn that grassland ecosystems might be reaching a tipping point after years of destruction.

NATIONAL FORESTS: Homeless camps delay reopening of Pikes Peak campgrounds

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The rising numbers of homeless camps on campgrounds is a growing issue for the U.S. Forest Service.

PUBLIC LANDS: BLM chief tours possible monument area where Bundy cows roam

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The head of the Bureau of Land Management yesterday visited an area of federal land in Nevada for the first time since a tense standoff with armed ranchers two years ago blocked the agency from removing Cliven Bundy's illegally grazing livestock there.

WILDLIFE: Rep. DeFazio blasts Ore. governor on wolf issue

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Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) blasted Oregon Gov. Kate Brown (D) in a letter, saying she mislead him on wolf conservation legislation in the state.

TRIBES: Interior-EPA provision would clean up Ore. fishing sites

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New language in the Senate's bill to fund the Department of the Interior, U.S. EPA and the Forest Service for fiscal 2017 would clean up and protect tribal fishing sites along Oregon's Columbia River.

REGULATIONS: Freshman lawmaker introduces bill to review rules

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Rep. Garret Graves (R-La.) has proposed legislation that would require federal agencies to take a second look at their regulations.

CLIMATE: Senate Dems introduce global warming education bill

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A group of Democratic senators wants to boost the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's climate change education activities.

TAXES: Critics look to tamp down green push in FAA extension

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Americans for Prosperity is once again urging lawmakers not to extend a key renewable tax break in upcoming legislation that would extend the authorization of the Federal Aviation Administration beyond next month's July 15 expiration.

CAMPAIGN 2016: U.S. Chamber ad makes fun of McGinty energy views

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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is up with a second television ad hitting former White House Council on Environmental Quality Director Katie McGinty over her past support for energy taxes, offering a satirical spot that suggests the Democratic Senate nominee would tax high-energy children if possible.

CLIMATE: GOP attorneys general hit Dem colleagues for Exxon probes

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Thirteen Republican attorneys general this week called on their counterparts in other states to drop investigations of whether fossil fuel companies have misled investors and the public on climate change.

OFFSHORE DRILLING: Comments reveal fierce debate over Interior leasing plan

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The Interior Department received almost 200,000 public comments by yesterday's deadline on its five-year oil and gas leasing plan, reflecting passionate views on whether the agency should allow new offshore drilling in the Arctic.

RENEWABLE ENERGY: Planned merger would create wind behemoth

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Two major European energy companies, Siemens and Gamesa, will combine their wind divisions under an agreement announced this morning that should establish a new market leader in the world's largest renewable energy sector.

INTERIOR: As Obama visits parks, report touts public lands' $300B impact

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Tourism, energy development and recreation on public lands managed by the Interior Department pump billions of dollars into the U.S. economy and support hundreds of thousands of jobs, according to a report released today that touts the economic impact of federal lands.

SUPREME COURT: Rising Obama attorney called Breyer a 'cold fish'

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The Obama administration's soon-to-be top Supreme Court lawyer once referred to now-Justice Stephen Breyer as a "cold fish" without an "innate sense of justice."

PUBLIC LANDS: BLM maps show cabin may be in Okla. -- and Texas

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A surprise visit from Texas game wardens first alerted Glenn Herring that the cabin he'd bought along the Red River in Oklahoma may actually be in Texas. He since found two Texas landowners claim a piece of the land Herring paid for. Maps obtained by Greenwire from the Bureau of Land Management, which owns a narrow strip between the states, show there may be dozens of cases like Herring's.

MALAWI: Conservationists to relocate 500 elephants

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African Parks next month will move 500 elephants in Malawi to a sanctuary, which they hope will help restore elephant populations in parts of Africa where the species has been heavily poached.

PANAMA: Farmers help conserve water for drought-ridden canal

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With authorities poised to open the newest section of the Panama Canal later this month in the midst of one of the worst drought seasons in the country's history, farmers are using sustainable practices to contribute to the nation's water supply.

CHINA: Government, enviros clash over country's last untouched river

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In the remote canyons of southwestern China, environmentalists and residents are pushing back against government efforts to build hydropower dams along the Nu, the country's last free-flowing river.

COLORADO: Mom pries son from mountain lion's jaws

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When a mountain lion attacked her son in their front yard Friday evening, a Pitkin County, Colo., woman pulled her son's head from the animal's jaws.
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