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WATER POLLUTION: Greens press court to force release of EPA power plant data

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Environmentalists this week asked federal appeals court judges to compel U.S. EPA to make available data backing the Obama administration's 2015 rule for curbing toxic metals in power plants' wastewater discharges.

DOE: Bribery, fraud charges linked to Berkeley Lab

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A federal grand jury has indicted seven individuals on charges ranging from bribery to lying to investigators about contracts linked to a Department of Energy lab.

PUBLIC LANDS: BLM buys access to scenic Utah canyon

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The Bureau of Land Management has bought 41 acres at the entrance of a popular canyon near Kanarraville, Utah.

CALIFORNIA: Farmers to get first full water allotment since 2006

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Federal water managers announced yesterday that all users who draw supplies from the Central Valley Project will be getting their entire allotment for the first time since 2006.

REGULATIONS: Groups urge Zinke to review methane rule before altering it

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Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke should conduct an extensive review of an Obama-era rule regulating methane waste on public lands before changing it, groups representing veterans, religious organizations and conservationists said today.

STATES: Christie is nation's least popular governor — poll

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A nationwide survey has New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) as the least popular governor in the country, with 25 percent of state voters approving his work.

CAMPAIGN 2017: Dems see silver lining in Kan. defeat

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Republican Ron Estes won a surprisingly close race in Kansas' 4th District last night.

REGULATIONS: 'Fuzzy math' could bolster industry's case — analyst

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The key ingredient that will allow President Trump's deregulatory agenda to plow ahead is "fuzzy math," said a senior analyst with the left-leaning Center for Progressive Reform.

AGRICULTURE: All eyes on EPA after court reinstates CAFO reporting

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Yesterday's appeals court ruling reinstating pollution reporting for certain livestock farms leaves the matter squarely in U.S. EPA's hands unless Congress intervenes, groups following the issue say.

MARINE MAMMALS: Bill would allow tribal sea lion hunts to help salmon

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A bill in the U.S. House would allow some Northwest American Indian tribes to kill a limited number of sea lions that eat endangered salmon in the Columbia River.

ENERGY POLICY: Greens assail bill that calls PACE a 'scam'

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Legislation that dubs a clean energy financing program a "scam" has angered environmentalists.

NATIONAL MONUMENTS: Western Dems urge Trump to maintain status quo

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Nine senators from Western states today urged President Trump to refrain from making changes to any of the nation's 157 national monuments, asserting that such a step would mark a reversal of Trump's campaign promises to be a "good steward" of federal lands.

FEDERAL AGENCIES: Top Democrat questions IGs on budget cuts

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A senior House Democrat has asked inspectors general in key energy and environmental agencies how President Trump's proposed budget cuts would affect their work.

TRANSPORTATION: Chao reflects on being a woman and an immigrant

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Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao attributes some of the anxiety that propelled President Trump to the presidency to fear of the "galloping pace of technology," she said in a wide-ranging podcast interview.

EPA: Public is asked to help pick rules for chopping block

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U.S. EPA's regulatory task force is looking for suggestions on what rules should be repealed, replaced or modified.

AUTOS: White House seeks deal with Calif. on emission standards

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The White House has told automakers it will seek to broker an agreement on emissions standards with California to avoid a patchwork of rules.

NEWSMAKER: This man may steer environmental law under Trump

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LOS ANGELES — President Trump's rhetoric has left many of the nation's top environmental lawyers wondering what will come of the Justice Department's environmental arm under his administration.

NATIONAL PARKS: Yellowstone crew sexually harassed female workers -- IG

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A Yellowstone National Park repair crew engaged in sexual harassment, drunkenness and crude comments on the job, an internal government watchdog said today.

AIR POLLUTION: Federal appeals court freezes ozone litigation

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A federal appeals court threw a massive tangle of litigation over U.S. EPA's 2015 ozone standard into limbo yesterday, agreeing to the agency's request to indefinitely delay oral arguments as Trump administration officials review their position on the 70-parts-per-billion air quality benchmark.

CLEAN WATER RULE: EPA to use 2 rulemakings to repeal and replace WOTUS

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U.S. EPA plans to repeal and replace the Clean Water Rule with two separate rulemaking processes, an EPA official told the Association of State Wetland Managers yesterday.
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