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KEYSTONE XL: TransCanada may skirt endangered beetle issue with dead rats

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TransCanada Corp. may be able to jump its latest hurdle to building the Keystone XL pipeline by using dead rats.

INTERIOR: Salazar aide who oversaw Great Outdoors exits

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The Interior Department official in charge of implementing the president's conservation agenda is resigning.

BRISTOL BAY: EPA delays closing watershed assessment comment period

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U.S. EPA is delaying the closing of the comment period for its revised assessment of the potential impacts of large-scale mining in southwestern Alaska.

URANIUM: Groups appeal new Colo. mill license in face of EPA regulatory uncertainty

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Colorado environmentalists are heading back to court to fight the first U.S. conventional uranium mill proposed in three decades.

SENATE: Ad from billionaire's group compares Mass. GOP candidate to Bush, Romney

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Billionaire California climate activist Tom Steyer's NextGen Committee is spending $25,000 on a new Web campaign attacking Republican Gabriel Gomez ahead of June's Massachusetts special Senate election.

CLIMATE: In coal country, believers and skeptics spar over warming

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Congressional Democrats have pressed their Republican colleagues for three years to hold a hearing on climate change, and yesterday one did -- in the heart of West Virginia's coal country.

PEOPLE: Former Senate Budget staffer joins ethanol group

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A former Senate staffer and Obama appointee has joined prominent ethanol group Growth Energy.

White House: Obama discusses hurricane season with oil execs, agency leaders

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President Obama yesterday met with oil and gas industry representatives and members of his Cabinet in the White House Situation Room to discuss the upcoming Atlantic hurricane season, which starts June 1.

FERC: Outgoing chairman fields calls on C-SPAN, reflects on his legacy

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The chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission said today that he's stepping down because he has been there "a long time" and has managed to push through major reforms in grid planning and oversight of the energy markets.

FEDERAL AGENCIES: New sustainability scorecard shows continuing 'green building' struggles

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Federal agencies continue to face obstacles in creating "green" work environments, though they are making progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, according to sustainability score cards released today.

FEDERAL AGENCIES: White House tries again to rein in contractor pay

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The White House is renewing its push to reign in ballooning reimbursement allowances for federal contractors.

FISHERIES: Mass. AG sues Obama admin over cod quotas

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The Massachusetts attorney general yesterday filed suit against the Commerce Department in an effort to stop drastic cuts in cod catch limits from taking effect. The action fell on the same day that New England fishermen asked Congress to shut down the regional fisheries management office.

OFFSHORE WIND: First grid-connected floating turbine is launched off Maine's coast

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Maine's famous lobster boats have a new water companion: a grid-connected offshore floating wind turbine.

KEYSTONE XL: Texas landowners fume as TransCanada excavates along pipeline route

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TransCanada Corp. is seeking to defuse an east Texas tangle with local landowners who raised alarms over the pipeline operator's pre-operational replacement of several sections along the mostly completed southern leg of its controversial Keystone XL project.

WATER POLLUTION: Sequester hits bonds, leaves cash-poor utilities in the lurch

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In 2009 and 2010, cash-strapped cities facing expensive environmental mandates for cleaning up sewer overflows snapped up a new type of taxable bond created under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that appeared to offer them a cheaper way of complying. But now, with construction projects funded by those bonds well underway, the government's checks to issuers are being slashed, thanks to the mandatory, across-the-board federal spending cuts enacted by sequestration.

EMISSIONS: C2ES President Claussen says natural gas development can be leveraged to reduce emissions

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How can the expansion of natural gas development help reduce greenhouse gas emissions? During today's OnPoint, Eileen Claussen, president of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES), discusses a new report highlighting the short- to midterm greenhouse gas benefits of natural gas development. She discusses the policy, regulatory, environmental and investment challenges facing the industry and explains how the industry can overcome barriers to expanded natural gas use.

JAPAN: TEPCO backtracks on groundwater contamination claims

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Tokyo Electric Power Co. said yesterday it had found radioactive cesium in groundwater flowing into its damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

GERMANY: Flooding strikes central Europe, killing 8

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Swollen rivers have inundated towns in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Czech Republic and reportedly killed at least 8 people.

CHINA: Rural pollution worsened last year

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Rural pollution in China worsened in 2012, the environment ministry said today.

COSTA RICA: China gives nation $900M credit line for refinery expansion

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China will give Costa Rica a $900 million line of credit to expand and remodel an oil refinery, the countries announced yesterday.
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