This morning, water resumed flowing down the damaged Oroville Dam spillway, and it will continue for up to two weeks.
WESTERN WATER: Crews reopen Oroville Dam spillway ahead of storms
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INTERIOR: Zinke gives employees 59 minutes off for holiday
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is giving all 70,000 department employees nearly an hour of extra time off today ahead of the Easter holiday weekend.
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CAMPAIGN 2017: Sierra Club starts get-out-the-vote push in Ga. special
The Sierra Club is launching a digital get-out-the-vote effort to help upstart Democrat Jon Ossoff in next week's closely watched special election in Georgia's 6th District.
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TOXICS: Dems push FDA on chemical in bath products
The Food and Drug Administration should remove a likely carcinogen from consumer and children's products like shampoos, shower gels and lotions, according to New York Democratic Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand.
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HOUSE: Bishop promises monuments bill; Grijalva frets about riders
The head of the House Natural Resources Committee still plans to introduce legislation to reform the law allowing presidents to designate national monuments on public land, even if President Trump issues an executive order on the matter.
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CHEMICALS: Safety board 'shocked' by proposal to nix budget
Members of the U.S. Chemical Safety Board expected a budget cutback in the Trump administration's proposed "skinny budget" released last month.
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WHITE HOUSE: Website asks public to pick agencies for chopping block
Want to reform a federal agency or cast a vote to eliminate the White House?
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PEOPLE: Ex-EPA 'beachhead' adviser takes helm of draft board
Don Benton, formerly a top official at the Trump administration's U.S. EPA, was sworn in late yesterday as director of the Selective Service System, an agency spokesman told E&E News today.
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Q&A: Kathleen Sgamma on public lands, hoppy beer and odd names
Kathleen Sgamma has a hint for people unable to pronounce her last name: Replace the Sg with an Sk.
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DOE: Warnings about nukes surface as Trump mulls overhaul
Former federal officials are warning the Trump administration against attempting to change federal laws that put the Department of Energy in charge of overseeing the nation's nuclear weapons.
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EPA: As White House lags on nominees, Pruitt builds his team
Republican congressional and campaign aides are starting to fill out the Trump administration's U.S. EPA roster.
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CLEAN WATER RULE: No time to waste for Trump admin's assault on WOTUS
The Trump administration must sprint if it wants to repeal and replace the Clean Water Act rule that determines which wetlands and streams get automatic federal protection.
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SRI LANKA: Garbage dump collapse buries neighborhood, kills 28
The death toll continues to mount from a massive garbage dump collapse in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Friday. As of today, 28 people have been reported dead; the number is expected to rise as rescuers search the debris that covered part of a residential neighborhood.
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VERMONT: Forest bird populations drop 14.2% — study
The bird population in Vermont's forests has dropped 14.2 percent over 25 years, according to scientists with the Vermont Center for Ecostudies.
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TEXAS: Enviros, oyster companies petition to end harvesting in bay
Environmentalists and six oyster companies are petitioning to halt oyster harvesting in Christmas Bay, a wildlife haven on the upper Texas Gulf Coast.
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AUTONOMOUS CARS: Apple gets permit to test self-driving technology in Calif.
Apple Inc. received official permission Friday to test autonomous vehicles on California roads.
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AIR POLLUTION: Calif. urges EPA to set stricter standards for trains
California has petitioned U.S. EPA to set more stringent emission standards for locomotives.
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AIR POLLUTION: U.S. air quality improves 'dramatically' — report
Toxic air releases are down by half over the last 10 years, according to a new report.
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OIL AND GAS: Monthslong gas leak plugged in Alaska's Cook Inlet
Dive crews Thursday night "safely and successfully" stopped a Hilcorp Alaska natural gas leak that had released methane in Alaska's Cook Inlet for months.
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OIL AND GAS: BP well leaks natural gas in North Slope
A crude oil leak discovered Friday morning from a BP PLC well on Alaska's North Slope was contained yesterday, but a second leak from the well was still emitting natural gas at a reduced rate.
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