Duke Energy Corp. said water contaminated with traces of a radioactive substance at its Catawba Nuclear Station on Lake Wylie in South Carolina has been contained and poses no public health risks.
NUCLEAR POWER: Leak at S.C. nuclear plant poses no risk -- Duke Energy
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BIOFUELS: Ethanol trade groups challenge E.U. anti-dumping duty
The U.S. ethanol industry is challenging a recent decision by the European Union to impose a nearly 10 percent anti-dumping duty on ethanol imports from the United States.
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CYBERSECURITY: Bipartisan Policy Center launches initiative on protecting electric grid
Three former top energy and security officials are taking a stab at the cybersecurity challenges facing the electric power sector.
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CLIMATE: ConocoPhillips chief links global warming to humans
The chief of the world's largest independent oil company said that humans are accelerating climate change and that action must be taken.
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GULF SPILL: BP seeks help ending spill payments
BP PLC is pursuing an injunction in U.S. courts alleging that Gulf Coast businesses want multimillion-dollar payments for "non-existent, artificially calculated" losses related to the 2010 oil spill.
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COAL: Appeals court upholds Alpha mountaintop permit
A federal appeals court yesterday upheld a long-disputed Army Corps of Engineers permit for an Alpha Natural Resources Inc. mountaintop-removal mine in Logan County, W.Va.
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INVASIVE SPECIES: Pregnancy-indicating frog spreads deadly disease
A species of frogs once used for human pregnancy tests decades ago may now threaten the existence of hundreds of other amphibians, according to a study published yesterday.
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WILDLIFE: Group wants feds to ban wolf hunting between 2 national parks
The National Parks Conservation Association petitioned the National Park Service yesterday to prohibit wolf hunting in an area between Grand Teton and Yellowstone national parks.
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ENDANGERED SPECIES: Wandering wolf captured again
Just weeks after his second release into the wild, a male Mexican wolf has been recaptured by biologists.
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ENDANGERED SPECIES: Father-son smuggling ring gets prison for trafficking rhino horns
A father-son team whose black market operation moved at least $2.5 million in rhinoceros horns from the United States to Southeast Asia from 2010 to 2012 will spend the next several years behind bars.
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NATIONAL PARKS: Cape Hatteras bill yanked from Senate markup; 20 other bills advance
A Senate committee this morning postponed efforts to advance a controversial bill that would overturn a National Park Service plan to limit motorized vehicle use at a North Carolina seashore.
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CAMPAIGN 2013: Markey slightly increases lead in new Mass. Senate poll
While the fight for Massachusetts' open Senate seat remains within a single-digit margin, a new Public Policy Polling survey found Democratic Rep. Ed Markey is consolidating his party's voters ahead of the June 25 general election.
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INTERIOR: After 'frank discussion' with Jewell, greens call for tougher fracking regs
A dozen environmental groups yesterday urged Interior Secretary Sally Jewell to strengthen forthcoming Bureau of Land Management rules governing hydraulic fracturing on public lands in addition to tightening oversight of roads and well pads, waste storage and site reclamation.
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HYDRAULIC FRACTURING: Revised BLM rule may come today, senior Interior official says
A revised rule governing hydraulic fracturing on federal lands could be released this afternoon, a senior Interior Department official said this morning.
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NOAA: Weather Service focused on the technical and not on the practical as Sandy hit -- report
The National Weather Service's focus on accurately describing Superstorm Sandy as it changed from a hurricane to a post-tropical cyclone led to some confusion in the public about the storm's severe impacts, according to a new internal report.
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LABOR: Panel sends DOL nominee to full Senate
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee voted along party lines today to approve President Obama's nominee to head the Labor Department.
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COURTS: Senate panel approves D.C. Circuit nominee
The Senate Judiciary Committee today approved President Obama's nominee to the influential U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
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KEYSTONE XL: Third House committee votes to approve pipeline permit
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee today approved a bill that would bypass administrative review and issue a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline.
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REGULATIONS: Progressives bang drums for 'course correction' at White House reg office
In the obscure world of federal rulemaking and administrative law, yesterday's gathering of progressives at American University was about as close as you could get to an old-fashioned revival meeting.
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CHEMICALS: Judge upholds styrene listing in HHS's 'Report on Carcinogens'
A federal judge yesterday upheld the Department of Health and Human Service's decision to list styrene as "reasonably anticipated" to cause cancer.
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