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HURRICANE MATTHEW: East Coast on alert as storm spares Fla. its worst wallop

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WEST PALM BEACH — Hurricane Matthew largely spared much of South Florida from extensive destruction and death this morning after it pummeled the state's east coast overnight, but officials warned that the worst is not over.

CANADA: Expiring lumber truce with U.S. could restart trade spat

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A decadelong truce over softwood lumber trade between the United States and Canada is set to expire this week, potentially reigniting a trade battle for the fifth time since the 1980s.

UNITED KINGDOM: Butterfly population dive shocks scientists

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The number of butterflies in the United Kingdom hit a record low this summer, according to nonprofit Butterfly Conservation.

HAITI: Mass-grave burials as hurricane's death toll climbs

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In the wake of Hurricane Matthew, Haiti has begun burying some of its dead in mass graves. The death toll from the storm rose to 1,000 people, and cholera is spreading in the devastated southwest region.

ZIKA VIRUS: Hurricane Matthew creates new mosquito breeding grounds

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Hurricane Matthew left behind destruction, death and new breeding grounds for the Zika virus.

AIR POLLUTION: McCarthy, Jewell tout cleaner air in parks

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Stricter air pollution laws have led to greater visibility at the nation's national parks, but more work is still needed, according to Obama administration officials.

AIR POLLUTION: EPA will revisit refinery regs

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U.S. EPA will reconsider five parts of its latest oil refinery emissions regulations following complaints from industry and environmental groups that the agency failed to provide an adequate public comment period.

AUTOS: Growing push for Germany to halt combustion-engine cars

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A proposal in Germany to stop the sale of new combustion-engine cars by 2030 is gaining widespread support across party lines in the country's upper house of the Bundestag.

PEOPLE: New DOE deputy science director had role in firing scandal

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A longtime federal technology official and key figure in a House investigation has been chosen to be the highest career science official at the Department of Energy's Office of Science.

OIL AND GAS: Texas nun uses industry money to combat fracking

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Sister Elizabeth Riebschlaeger, an 80-year-old Texan nun, is on a mission to stop fracking in her town by using oil company money.

UTILITIES: Calpine nabs Noble Americas for almost $1B

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Utility giant Calpine Corp. has announced it is purchasing electricity provider Noble Americas Energy Solutions in a nearly $1 billion deal.

UTILITIES: Duke offloads Brazilian business for $1.2B

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Duke Energy Corp. announced today that it's selling its Brazilian business for $1.2 billion.

WILD HORSES: Advocates sue BLM to block roundup

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In an effort to block a horse roundup this month east of Rock Springs, Wyo., wild horse advocates are suing the Bureau of Land Management.

OREGON STANDOFF: 1 Bundy to another at trial: 'How ya doing?'

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Ryan Bundy questioned his brother Ammon on the witness stand last week during the ongoing trial over their occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.

AIR POLLUTION: EPA agrees to review flaring emissions formula

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U.S. EPA will revisit a key gauge for estimating emissions of volatile organic compounds from natural gas production flaring operations under a tentative settlement to a lawsuit brought by four Gulf Coast environmental groups.

WILDLIFE: Melting permafrost unleashes reindeer 'zombie infection'

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Abnormally warm temperatures may have thawed permafrost soil in northern Russia and awakened a "zombie infection" in the reindeer population.

DROUGHT: Evidence of mass extinction in Calif. Bay Area — study

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Scientists say they might be seeing evidence of what they call Earth's sixth mass extinction in California's San Francisco Bay and its estuary.

PUBLIC LANDS: Utah officials fretting over federal forest plans

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Federal land managers are moving to restructure land-use plans for four of Utah's five national forests, creating concern among some state and local officials that grazing access and other current land policies may be curtailed.

PUBLIC LANDS: BLM advancing controversial Calif. pumped storage hydro project

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The Bureau of Land Management is nearing approval of a transmission line across federal land that is needed to operate a pumped storage hydroelectric project in the Southern California desert that some conservation groups strongly oppose.

MONTANA: Candidates trade insults over stream access in final debate

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Montana Gov. Steve Bullock (D) and Republican challenger Greg Gianforte clashed repeatedly in their final debate Saturday night, battling over which candidate is a true supporter of public lands and stream access in the state, as well as on the future of the state's coal industry.
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