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COAL: Documentary indicts mining, aims to rewrite history

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Mari-Lynn Evans never planned to go back home to West Virginia. But 15 years after she did, the activist filmmaker is telling her story.

LOBBYING: ClearPath registers 1st lobbyist

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ClearPath Action has registered its first lobbyist.

PEOPLE: Murkowski stalwart lands in policy shop

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Robert Dillon, a longtime aide to Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski, has joined a Washington policy shop focused on regulatory reform and economic growth.

Q&A: Christine Todd Whitman on harsh Trump rhetoric, EPA's future

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Former U.S. EPA boss Christine Todd Whitman thinks President-elect Donald Trump is going to make the George W. Bush administration's environmental record look "pretty good."

SCIENCE: Accept facts, Rush Holt tells Trump

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A top scientific leader urged President-elect Donald Trump to embrace science in an essay published yesterday.

ENERGY EFFICIENCY: Advocates 'cautiously optimistic' on Trump

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Efficiency advocates say they see opportunities and are "cautiously optimistic" about President-elect Donald Trump, despite his pledges to undo President Obama's regulations and climate programs.

PUBLIC LANDS: Enviros dispute claims that Trump can rescind monuments

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Conservationists are pushing back against claims that President-elect Donald Trump could abolish the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and other sites unilaterally protected by previous presidents.

POLITICS: Steyer considers spending blitz to stymie Trump

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SAN DIEGO — Billionaire environmental activist Tom Steyer pledged yesterday to spend whatever is needed to stop President-elect Donald Trump from taking actions likely to accelerate climate change.

ARCTIC: Election puts ANWR fight back on the table

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The GOP electoral sweep has Alaska Republicans feeling upbeat on the prospects for a priority that has eluded them for decades — opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas exploration and drilling.

CABINET: Trump taps EPA foes for top administration jobs

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President-elect Donald Trump today announced his first slate of nominees for top administration jobs, including two Republican lawmakers with a history of criticizing the Obama administration's environmental policies.

LOBBYING: Trump's K Street friends

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President-elect Donald Trump and Washington's "swamp" of lobbyists and consultants have never been buddy-buddy.

TRANSITION: Energy lobbyist leaves DOE landing team

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Mike McKenna, an energy lobbyist who has been leading President-elect Donald Trump's Energy Department transition team for months, has left that post.

OFFSHORE DRILLING: 5-year plan nixes most Arctic development

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Drilling in two key Arctic seas is off the table, though one lease sale in the Cook Inlet off Alaska is allowed under the Interior Department's five-year leasing plan announced today.

WHITE HOUSE: Obama blueprint aims to cement his regulatory legacy

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The White House yesterday released its latest regulatory agenda, a sweeping plan for the remaining months of President Obama's term.

JAPAN: Earthquake raises nuclear concerns

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Yesterday's earthquake off the coast of Japan has again raised concerns about the safety of the country's nuclear reactors.

AUSTRALIA: Thunderstorms trigger asthma attacks that kill 4

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A thunderstorm in Australia on Monday caused a spate of asthma attacks that led to at least four deaths.

NEW MEXICO: State agencies clash over oil waste cleanup

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The New Mexico Oil Conservation Division is defending one of its partners, a private company accused of insufficient cleanup at an oil waste disposal well.

NORTH DAKOTA: Policing pipeline protests devours state emergency fund

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Policing the Dakota Access pipeline protests has exhausted the $10 million emergency spending bill authorized by the state, and officials say they may need more.

WATER RIGHTS: P&G pulled into 400-year-old Potomac River battle

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An almost 400-year-old battle over water rights to the Potomac River is spurring a possible lawsuit between West Virginia and Maryland, and consumer products giant Procter & Gamble Co. is being pulled into the fight.

SUPERFUND: EPA, companies agree to cleanup plan at N.C. site

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Cleanup is set to begin at a North Carolina Superfund site in 2017 after federal environmental officials came to an agreement with the three involved companies yesterday.
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