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SCIENCE: Massive costs loom for famed Antarctic research station

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For 50 years, the United States' McMurdo Station has performed the world's most ambitious research on Antarctica.

AGRICULTURE: Grisly farmworker deaths highlight risky industry

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Two Idaho farm workers have died in manure ponds in the past 12 months. In both cases, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined the operation for negligence.

SOLID WASTE: Communities deal with pollution from drug crisis

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Syringes from heroin users are turning up on hiking trails, playgrounds, rivers and beaches.

AIR POLLUTION: Texas companies often go unpunished for industrial incidents

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Dennis Gallagher was a proud Shell Oil Co. employee for 23 years, but everything changed in 2015 when a critical pump failed in his Texas facility, releasing more than 300,000 pounds of 1,3-Butadiene — a known carcinogen — into the atmosphere.

SOLAR: DOE to track rooftop systems in forecasts

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The Department of Energy will begin tracking production from rooftop solar systems, the agency announced last week, signaling the expanding role of small-scale solar in the nation's energy mix.

PARIS AGREEMENT: Charm may have softened Trump's stance — Macron

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French President Emmanuel Macron said yesterday his efforts to charm President Trump in Paris last week may have softened Trump's stance on climate change.

OIL AND GAS: Emissions surge as production areas age — study

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As oil fields age, drawing crude from the ground demands more energy and is worse for the climate — often dramatically so.

EMISSIONS: Ex-Suzuki employee pleads guilty on motorcycle cheat

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A former employee of Suzuki Motor Corp. last week pleaded guilty to filing a false report in violation of the Clean Air Act on emissions from more than 20,000 of the company's model year 2012 motorcycles.

WATER POLLUTION: Greens seek rehearing on EPA withholding power plant data

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Environmental groups want a federal court to reconsider its May finding that U.S. EPA properly withheld technical data backing the Obama administration's 2015 rule curbing toxic metals in power plants' wastewater discharges.

WILDLIFE: Wolf rebound leaves ranchers tense

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Wolf packs and ranchers are clashing in northeastern Washington state. With an estimated 20 packs in the region, wolf populations show clear signs of recovery in recent years.

WETLANDS: Company restores marsh but fails to make a profit

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George Howard planned to restore the wetlands that had been lost along Louisiana's coast — and to make a profit doing it.

TRIBES: Navajo panel rejects Grand Canyon gondola plan

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Navajo Nation Council delegates last week rejected a controversial plan for a gondola ride into the eastern Grand Canyon, leaving the project's future in flux.

WILDLIFE: Devastating bat disease targeted by new federal grants

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The Fish and Wildlife Service today elevated the fight against a fungal disease that's threatening the U.S. bat population, announcing a little over $1 million in grants for state-level programs targeting white-nose syndrome.

MARINE MAMMALS: NOAA suspends rescue efforts for trapped whales

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The U.S. government will temporarily halt efforts to free trapped whales after a Canadian fisherman on a rescue team in the North Atlantic was killed last week.

GREAT LAKES: 'At the end of the day ... the water had to go somewhere'

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A pizza-box-sized drone took to the New York skies last week to snap hundreds of photos of Lake Ontario, which is at its highest level in at least 70 years.

CAMPAIGN 2018: Caitlyn Jenner mulls Senate bid for Feinstein's seat

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Caitlyn Jenner said she is mulling a Senate bid in a radio interview yesterday.

NATIONAL MONUMENTS: Gov. Brown gets no answer from Zinke on Cascade-Siskiyou

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Oregon Gov. Kate Brown (D) met with Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke this weekend to "relay her strong support" for the expanded Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument.

ADVOCACY: Enviro ads target vulnerable Republicans over EPA cuts

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The advocacy arm of the Environmental Defense Fund, EDF Action, will spend $1 million stressing environmental protection in 10 Republican-held House districts.

PEOPLE: Former Sen. Ayotte joins enviro group

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Kelly Ayotte, a former GOP senator and New Hampshire attorney general, is joining Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions, where she will serve as the center-right group's senior adviser.

NEVADA STANDOFF: Roger Stone urges Trump to pardon the Bundys

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Roger Stone, a former longtime and controversial adviser to President Trump, urged the president over the weekend to pardon Cliven Bundy and his sons as they prepare to stand trial for the 2014 armed standoff at the family's ranch in Nevada.
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