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DOE: Partnership with NASA launches energy competition

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The Department of Energy is partnering with NASA to advance energy technologies "to the benefit of both space exploration and life on Earth."

SOLAR: In Utah, fast-growing industry welcomes new rules

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Solar industry advocates in Utah are hoping new requirements passed by the state Legislature will bring order to the sector's frenzied expansion.

OIL AND GAS: Texas to India: Take more of our LNG shipments

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) yesterday urged Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to increase shipments of liquefied natural gas from the state's ports.

NUCLEAR WASTE: DOE to investigate radiation spread at Hanford

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The Department of Energy has launched an independent investigation into radioactive contamination at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.

URANIUM: NEI sides with utilities over miners on import quota

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The nuclear industry's top trade group quietly backed utility companies over mining firms last week on uranium quotas.

ENERGY MARKETS: FERC inks pact with China on electricity pricing

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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the Chinese government signed a memorandum of understanding yesterday on reform of electricity price regulation in the communist country.

AGRICULTURE: Fla. must pay residents for destroyed citrus trees

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Florida's agriculture commissioner must pay millions of dollars in damages to 12,000 citrus tree owners, a court ordered.

WILDFIRES: Utah target shooter charged with sparking blaze

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Charges were filed yesterday against a man who investigators say started a 225-acre wildfire in Saratoga Springs, Utah, last summer.

AIR POLLUTION: EPA to finish ozone designations in July with San Antonio

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U.S. EPA will abide by a court-ordered July deadline to wind up all tardy attainment designations for its 2015 ground-level ozone standard, culminating with a closely watched final decision for a fast-growing part of Texas, according to a new regulatory filing.

ENDANGERED SPECIES: Drones confirm centuries-old idea on caribou migration

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New technology is following caribou along the frozen shores of Victoria Island in the Canadian Arctic to test centuries-old wisdom from the Inuit.

FORESTS: Top cocoa producers make slow progress protecting trees

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Ivory Coast park rangers are working hard to protect forests plagued by illegal farming in the world's biggest cocoa-producing nation.

ENDANGERED SPECIES: 20 years later, Mexican wolf program still faces barriers

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Today is the 20th anniversary of the release of three Mexican gray wolf packs that would become the first of their kind to roam New Mexico in decades, but the wolf program has endured many hiccups since then.

WILDLIFE: Report identifies many species in peril

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About one-third of the nation's best-known wildlife species are "imperiled or vulnerable," according to a new report by wildlife advocates pressing for a legislative fix.

CAMPAIGN 2018: Rohrabacher latest Steyer target

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Billionaire progressive activist Tom Steyer's NextGen America has funded a billboard targeting one of the most endangered House Republicans come November: Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.).

CHEMICALS: S.C. lawmakers press EPA to restrict use of paint stripper

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South Carolina Republicans are urging U.S. EPA to finalize restrictions on a paint-stripping chemical that's killed more than 50 people in the last 35 years, including a Charleston businessman.

EPA: Pruitt lived in townhouse owned by energy lobbyist's wife

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For most of his first year in office, U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt lived in a townhouse co-owned by the wife of top energy lobbyist J. Steven Hart, according to property records from last year.

DOE: Fired employee blasts Perry-Murray meeting in op-ed

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A photographer who was fired from the Energy Department took to CNN this morning to blast his former employer and the White House, while also calling on Congress to block President Trump's nominee for a post at U.S. EPA.

INTERIOR: Jewell rips Trump's 'nefarious and sinister' policies

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Former Interior Secretary Sally Jewell believes the Trump administration's reorganization of her previous department is meant to marginalize it, and called moves to shrink national monuments and increase fossil fuels development on federal lands "nefarious and sinister acts."

INTERIOR: Zinke apologized about regs to 'bad actor' mining exec

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Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke apologized last year when a top mining executive complained about regulations.

SCIENCE: Study links umpires' bad calls to air pollution

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Air pollution is making baseball games more contentious, according to a new report.
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