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VW SCANDAL: Exec pleads not guilty in federal court

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Oliver Schmidt, a major figure in Volkswagen AG's emissions scandal, pleaded not guilty in federal court in Detroit yesterday.

OREGON STANDOFF: Video surfaces in trial, with talk of 'guerrilla warfare'

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Jurors in the second Oregon standoff trial yesterday saw a video shot in the bunkhouse kitchen at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge after the fatal shooting of spokesman Robert "Lavoy" Finicum.

COAL: Court won't rehear Blankenship appeal

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A federal appeals court today denied the request by former coal tycoon Don Blankenship to revisit a ruling that upheld his conviction for willfully violating mine safety laws.

OFFSHORE DRILLING: Company hit with $9.5M in penalties over deadly 2012 blast

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The Justice Department imposed $9.5 million in penalties on an oil services company in connection with a 2012 blast that killed three rig workers in the Gulf of Mexico.

EPA: Okla. seeks delay in releasing more Pruitt records

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Oklahoma's attorney general is seeking an emergency stay from the state Supreme Court to delay the release of more records from U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's time as the state's top lawyer.

ARCTIC: 'Doomsday' vault gets new seeds

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A "doomsday" seed vault in the Arctic recently received 50,000 new plant seed samples.

PUBLIC LANDS: Man fined after spooking elk in refuge with drone

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A Washington, D.C., man was fined this week after a drone he was flying spooked a herd of animals in the National Elk Refuge in Wyoming.

BORDER WALL: Landowners likely to sue over property rights

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The Trump administration will likely face lawsuits from landowners whose property runs along the Texas-Mexico border.

NATIONAL MONUMENTS: Utah governor laments outdoor show's departure

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Utah Gov. Gary Herbert (R) today called the Outdoor Retailer show's decision to abandon its longtime home in Salt Lake City the result of a "misunderstanding" about the recently created Bears Ears National Monument but indicated he would not halt efforts to try to roll back the monument designation.

PUBLIC LANDS: Interior halts Obama royalty valuation rule

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The Trump administration is temporarily suspending a recent Interior Department rule for determining the value of coal, oil and natural gas for royalty purposes that is strongly opposed by congressional Republicans and industry leaders.

OBITUARY: Eni Faleomavaega, former American Samoa lawmaker, dies

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Eni Faleomavaega, American Samoa's longest-serving House delegate, died Wednesday in Provo, Utah, at the age of 73.

COAL: Grijalva probes Interior stream rule job loss claim

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House Natural Resources Committee ranking member Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) is asking the Interior Department for more information about its blog post this week on the now-defunct Stream Protection Rule.

SENATE: Will resolution to repeal BLM rule muster enough votes?

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The Senate next week may tackle companion language to a House-passed resolution to kill a Bureau of Land Management rule, though it's not clear whether support for gutting the rule will ultimately fall along party lines, possibly endangering its passage.

EPA: Fla. lawmaker's assault on agency sparks fury back home

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PACE, Fla. — About a year after Katherine Nelson-Born bought her home in Pensacola's affluent East Hill neighborhood, she learned pollutants from a now-shuttered fertilizer plant run by the former Agrico Chemical Co. had contaminated the groundwater.

DAKOTA ACCESS: Energy Transfer CEO says he 'underestimated' social media

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The head of the company building the Dakota Access pipeline yesterday blamed the internet for the furor over his project.

ADVOCACY: Energy interests fueled transition effort

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Energy interests helped fuel President Trump's transition team, according to disclosure documents filed with the government.

CLIMATE: FERC keeps Obama guidance alive in manual for gas projects

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While President Trump has vowed to dismantle his predecessor's climate legacy, federal energy regulators rolled out a guidance this week calling for developers of natural gas pipelines to assess their project's impacts on global warming.

Q&A: Trump energy prospect on CO2, Jack Russell terriers

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Kathleen Hartnett White — rumored to be a contender for a key energy job in the Trump administration — says carbon dioxide has gotten a bad rap.

REGULATIONS: Trump order sets up reform task forces in agencies

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President Trump signed another executive order today taking aim at federal regulations.

WHITE HOUSE: Trump rails against energy regs, vows to revive coal

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President Trump promised today to free U.S. energy producers from burdensome regulations, while ridiculing his predecessor's administration for "giving up" on the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines now advancing under his watch.
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