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VW SCANDAL: Judge OKs $1.2B deal for smaller set in emissions cheat

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A federal judge yesterday preliminarily approved a deal worth at least $1.2 billion that would compensate the owners of roughly 78,000 Volkswagens with 3-liter engines designed to cheat on emissions tests.

NEVADA STANDOFF: BLM agent says Bundy supporters posed threat

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Cliven Bundy's supporters posed a threat to federal authorities who wanted to impound the rancher's cattle, according to a Bureau of Land Management agent who testified yesterday during the trial of six defendants charged in the 2014 armed standoff in Bunkerville, Nev.

OREGON STANDOFF: Bundys not mentioned by name at jury selection in 2nd trial

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Forty-one prospective jurors remained in the pool yesterday at the end of the first day of jury selection in the second trial stemming from last year's standoff at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon.

TRIBES: Firm to focus on issues facing Native Americans

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The law firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck opened a department yesterday specializing in tribal issues before Congress, the executive branch and state agencies.

NATIONAL PARKS: Setting sun ignites 'firefall' at Yosemite

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Photographers this month have captured a rare sight in Yosemite National Park.

NATIONAL PARKS: Grand Teton bison struggle in rare deep snow

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Unusually deep snow in Grand Teton National Park has endangered bison and motorists, leading park officials to take action.

FORESTS: Report touts policies to restore 'unhealthy' Northeast trees

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Forests in the Northeast are having a midlife crisis.

NATIONAL PARKS: IG says contractor lied about being owned by veteran

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The National Park Service awarded $10 million in construction contracts to a company that lied about being a veteran-owned small business, according to the Interior Department's inspector general.

BRISTOL BAY: After Trump bump, hedge fund calls Pebble mine a 'zero'

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After President Trump's election thrilled developers of what could become one the world's biggest copper and gold mines, a Wall Street hedge fund bet big yesterday that the Pebble project in Alaska is a "zero."

CAMPAIGN 2018: Kid Rock eyed as GOP challenger for Sen. Stabenow's seat

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Kid Rock, the outspoken country rock star, has reportedly been proposed as a Republican candidate for Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow's (D) Senate seat in 2018.

UTILITIES: Rural Electric Cooperative hires former nuclear spokesman

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The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association has hired Scott Peterson, a former spokesman for the nuclear industry, to lead its communication and marketing programs.

COAL: 2 trade groups merge

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Two coal trade groups announced today that their members have approved a merger.

PUBLIC LANDS: Colo. ads try to cash in on Utah bid to scuttle monuments

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Conservation Colorado launched a paid ad campaign today urging the Outdoor Retailer show to relocate to the Centennial State, seizing on recent criticism by recreation industry leaders of Utah's efforts to roll back federal monuments in the state and claim greater control of public lands.

LOBBYING: TransCanada enlists top firm for Keystone XL

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The Keystone XL pipeline is getting some more K Street help.

EPA: Pruitt donors have faced enforcement actions

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More than a dozen companies with financial ties to Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt (R) have faced hundreds of U.S. EPA enforcement actions.

WHITE HOUSE: Possible science adviser called climate science a 'cult'

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The front-runner to be President Trump's science adviser once called climate scientists a "glassy-eyed cult."

COAL: Trump to sign stream rule repeal this week

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell expects President Trump to sign the repeal of the Stream Protection Rule this week.

ENDANGERED SPECIES: Senate Dems cast doubt on GOP-led reform push

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Democrats today expressed skepticism about a Republican-led effort to update the Endangered Species Act, a potential sign of trouble for the reform push.

NOMINATIONS: Senate advances Mulvaney as Dems plot to stall Pruitt

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Uncertainty over how fast the Senate will confirm a White House budget director could keep the chamber from taking up U.S. EPA administrator nominee Scott Pruitt this week.

ENERGY EFFICIENCY: Timing is everything: 11 DOE standards in limbo

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Eleven major energy efficiency rules issued last year for devices ranging from battery chargers to commercial boilers could be delayed or scrapped entirely by the Trump administration.
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