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SOLID WASTE: Plastic piles high in West as China turns away world's trash

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Since China announced last year that it would stop accepting the West's recycling, plastic has been piling up.

WATER POLLUTION: Lebanon dumps trash into Mediterranean to build coastline

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Locals say a massive land reclamation project in Lebanon is filling the Mediterranean Sea with garbage.

WESTERN WATER: County unveils $400M plan to save part of shrinking sea

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A county in California released a $400 million plan yesterday to address the shrinking Salton Sea, which has seen record salinity levels, fish die-offs, fewer birds and a "bathtub ring" of gunk that kicks up toxic dust storms.

WATER POLLUTION: Colo. mine can continue to discharge into creek

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Colorado officials this week voted to give a mine that sits above one of Denver's drinking water reservoirs until June 2020 to meet state molybdenum pollution standards.

COAL ASH: Okla. on track to be first state to regulate disposal

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U.S. EPA has given preliminary approval to Oklahoma's bid to directly regulate coal ash disposal, likely meaning that the state will be the first to gain that authority under a 2016 law.

OIL AND GAS: Broken wheel caused fiery tanker crash, NTSB finds

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A federal safety board has concluded that an oil tanker train crash in 2015 was caused by a broken wheel.

PIPELINES: Enviros sue Army Corps over Bayou Bridge oil project

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A coalition of environmental groups filed suit yesterday against the Army Corps of Engineers over construction permits for the Bayou Bridge oil pipeline extension in Louisiana.

HYDROPOWER: Greens challenge approval for 'destructive' Ala. project

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Environmentalists today urged federal judges to reject an Alabama hydropower project that they say is among the most destructive in the Southeast.

OIL SPILLS: Dispersants are awful for deep-sea corals, researchers warn

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The chemicals used after an oil spill are more toxic for deep-sea corals than the spill itself, researchers warn.

FISHERIES: Old bones show genetic diversity has plummeted in chinook

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The genetic diversity of chinook salmon has dramatically fallen compared with their ancestors, according to DNA extraction from old fish bones.

NATURAL DISASTERS: Government saves big by investing in mitigation — report

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Federal disaster mitigation programs that would have seen deep cuts under President Trump's fiscal 2018 budget proposal save the government more money than previously believed, according to a new report.

PUERTO RICO: Utility faces investigation over hoarded hurricane supplies

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Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló yesterday ordered the island's Department of Justice to investigate materials found in a warehouse belonging to the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA), the territory's utility.

OCEANS: 70% say human activity is a threat — report

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A majority of people think human activities are a threat to the ocean, with 45 percent ranking the threat as "high" or "very high," according to new research.

ENDANGERED SPECIES: The Canada lynx will get its day in court

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The Fish and Wildlife Service's new determination that the Canada lynx no longer needs Endangered Species Act protection will return the agency to its own familiar habitat, a federal courthouse.

ENDANGERED SPECIES: Captivity of Lolita the orca doesn't violate law — court

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A federal appeals court today rejected a lawsuit brought by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and other animal rights groups against Miami Seaquarium over the captive orca Lolita.

FEDERAL WORKFORCE: Dems propose 3% employee pay raise

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House and Senate Democrats have offered legislation to give a substantial pay raise to federal employees.

OFF TOPIC: BLM iced the methane rule. She's fighting to save it

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Susannah Weaver is on the front lines of a major test of President Trump's March "energy independence" executive order.

BIOFUELS: Obama ethanol pump program runs dry

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An Obama administration program to promote high-ethanol fuel is quietly drawing to an end, taking away one of the incentives gas stations had to install equipment for E15 fuel.

PEOPLE: T. Boone Pickens quits energy trading

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Oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens is closing the doors on his massive energy-focused hedge fund, citing health issues and waning interest.

INTERIOR: Former officials warn against migratory bird law changes

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Seventeen former top Interior Department officials from both parties have now flocked together to protest the department's new, more confined view of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
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