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.
COAL: Documentary indicts mining, aims to rewrite history
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LOBBYING: ClearPath registers 1st lobbyist
ClearPath Action has registered its first lobbyist.
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PEOPLE: Murkowski stalwart lands in policy shop
Robert Dillon, a longtime aide to Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski, has joined a Washington policy shop focused on regulatory reform and economic growth.
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Q&A: Christine Todd Whitman on harsh Trump rhetoric, EPA's future
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."
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SCIENCE: Accept facts, Rush Holt tells Trump
A top scientific leader urged President-elect Donald Trump to embrace science in an essay published yesterday.
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ENERGY EFFICIENCY: Advocates 'cautiously optimistic' on Trump
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.
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PUBLIC LANDS: Enviros dispute claims that Trump can rescind monuments
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.
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POLITICS: Steyer considers spending blitz to stymie Trump
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.
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ARCTIC: Election puts ANWR fight back on the table
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.
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CABINET: Trump taps EPA foes for top administration jobs
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.
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LOBBYING: Trump's K Street friends
President-elect Donald Trump and Washington's "swamp" of lobbyists and consultants have never been buddy-buddy.
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TRANSITION: Energy lobbyist leaves DOE landing team
Mike McKenna, an energy lobbyist who has been leading President-elect Donald Trump's Energy Department transition team for months, has left that post.
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OFFSHORE DRILLING: 5-year plan nixes most Arctic development
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.
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WHITE HOUSE: Obama blueprint aims to cement his regulatory legacy
The White House yesterday released its latest regulatory agenda, a sweeping plan for the remaining months of President Obama's term.
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JAPAN: Earthquake raises nuclear concerns
Yesterday's earthquake off the coast of Japan has again raised concerns about the safety of the country's nuclear reactors.
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AUSTRALIA: Thunderstorms trigger asthma attacks that kill 4
A thunderstorm in Australia on Monday caused a spate of asthma attacks that led to at least four deaths.
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NEW MEXICO: State agencies clash over oil waste cleanup
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.
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NORTH DAKOTA: Policing pipeline protests devours state emergency fund
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.
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WATER RIGHTS: P&G pulled into 400-year-old Potomac River battle
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.
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SUPERFUND: EPA, companies agree to cleanup plan at N.C. site
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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