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WHITE HOUSE: Big winners and big losers in Trump's budget

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Count U.S. EPA, President Obama and green groups among the biggest losers with today's unveiling of the Trump administration's budget proposal.

BRAZIL: Samarco case suspended as settlement moves forward

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A Brazilian federal court yesterday suspended a case against iron ore mining company Vale SA.

SOUTH AFRICA: Cape Town has 100 days of water left

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Cape Town has 100 days left before it runs out of water.

JAPAN: Government found liable in Fukushima disaster

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A Japanese court found Tokyo Electric Power Co. and the government liable for negligence in a case involving evacuees from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown, the first time the state has been found liable.

UTAH: Panel orders water usage data to be made public

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The Utah Division of Water Resources must release a database used to calculate Utah's annual water consumption to the public, the State Records Committee ruled this week.

MONTANA: State bill would allow extension of coal leases

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The Montana Legislature is advancing a bill that would allow the extension of coal development leases on public land as an alternative to opening them up for new bids.

MICHIGAN: State to enact toughest lead laws in country

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Michigan will enact the toughest lead standard in the country for water following the contamination crisis in Flint.

CALIFORNIA: Trump declares disaster after severe storms

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President Trump yesterday declared parts of California a major disaster area and ordered federal help in areas hit by severe winter storms, flooding and mudslides.

WESTERN WATER: Calif. announces $383M plan to protect Salton Sea

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California Gov. Jerry Brown's administration yesterday proposed spending $383 million over a decade to slow the shrinking of the state's largest lake.

WATER POLLUTION: EPA ups payment to area governments for Gold King spill

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U.S. EPA paid out an additional $90,000 yesterday to governments downstream from the 2015 Gold King mine spill.

PROPERTY RIGHTS: Border land owners could put up fight over Trump's wall

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President Trump wants to hire 20 lawyers to work on obtaining the land to build a wall along the country's Southwest border, but it's not clear whether even that team would be enough to handle the staggering amount of work involved in such a huge eminent domain project.

CLIMATE: Exxon bashes NY AG over Tillerson's alias email

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Exxon Mobil Corp. complained in court documents filed yesterday about "sensational coverage in the press" over former CEO Rex Tillerson's use of an alias email account.

AIR POLLUTION: Wash. man renews fight against EPA over Hanford permit

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A Washington state man has renewed a court fight with U.S. EPA over the Clean Air Act operating permit for the Hanford nuclear waste site.

VOLCANOES: Mount Etna eruption sends rocks flying, injures 10

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Italy's Mount Etna erupted yesterday, injuring 10 people after magna started to flow into snow and caused a violent explosion, according to emergency services.

FISHERIES: Wash. declines Ore. gill net compromise

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A Columbia River gill net policy compromise from the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission was rejected this week by Washington's Fish and Wildlife Commission.

MARINE MAMMALS: Scientists crowdsource work on struggling Steller sea lions

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Wildlife researchers are asking the public to help them sort through a half-million photos captured over the past year or so at Steller sea lion sites in the western Aleutian Islands.

ENDANGERED SPECIES: Monk seal drowns at NOAA-funded site

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An endangered Hawaiian monk seal drowned after wandering into a net pen and becoming trapped at a fish farm that was partly funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

AGRICULTURE: Group calls budget 'devastating to voluntary conservation'

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President Trump's proposed budget would deal a heavy blow to farmland conservation by shutting down offices that serve farmers, a group that helps farmers draft land-saving plans said today.

OIL AND GAS: 'More to come' from Trump, GOP on energy — Gerard

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Jack Gerard, the nation's top oil and gas lobbyist, foresees lots of action from the Trump administration and Congress on energy issues in the next six weeks.

EPA: Sluggish Superfund could slow down more under proposed cut

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The already-struggling Superfund program would likely move even more slowly to clean up hazardous waste sites under the Trump administration's proposed budget, which would slash U.S. EPA's Hazardous Substance Superfund Account by 30 percent.
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