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FLORIDA: Governor's $37M promise to fix once-attractive springs not enough, advocates say

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Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) announced Wednesday his plan to steer $37 million into 10 projects meant to cut pollution and improve the flow of some of the state's popular springs.

TOXICS: Arsenic emissions threaten residents in S. Calif.

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Exposure to arsenic emissions from a battery recycler is threatening more than 250,000 residents in Southern California, air district officials said.

EPA: Mich. spill strained cleanup funding, exposed lack of guidance for responders -- IG

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U.S. EPA's independent auditor today released a report clearing the agency of charges that it failed to seek reimbursement from Enbridge Inc. for the challenging, billion-dollar cleanup of its 3-year-old oil spill in Michigan but found that the response strained the agency's ability to tackle nonemergency crude leaks.

ELECTRIC VEHICLES: Drive Electric Orlando organizers expect rental program to entice drivers

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Organizers of the new Drive Electric Orlando initiative are expecting consumers who rent electric cars to come to appreciate, and perhaps decide to buy, the alternative vehicles when they visit central Florida.

OIL AND GAS: Shell to negotiate spill compensation with Nigerian villages

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Royal Dutch Shell PLC on Monday will begin negotiating compensation with villagers affected by the massive oil spill that soiled fishing grounds in the Niger Delta, about five years after the accident took place.

HYDRAULIC FRACTURING: New industry-funded group aims to promote shale to Coloradans

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A new industry-funded group is seeking to educate Coloradans on the safety and economic benefits of hydraulic fracturing, the widely used oil and natural gas production technique that has drawn intense opposition in the Centennial State.

CLIMATE: In compromise, E.U. curbs airline emission standards

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The European Union is trying to work out a compromise with the United States over airline emission rules.

CLIMATE: Jewell announces $24M fund to help island nations gird for warming

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MAJURO, Marshall Islands -- Interior Secretary Sally Jewell unveiled today a $24 million Pacific Climate Fund to help small island nations prepare for the impacts of climate change.

PEOPLE: Climate scientist Hansen takes new post at Columbia University

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NEW YORK -- Climate change firebrand James Hansen is coming back to Manhattan to head a new program at Columbia University.

GULF SPILL: BP, DOJ offer conflicting estimates of accident

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BP PLC and the federal government continue to disagree over how much oil was released during the 2010 Gulf of Mexico spill as the second leg of their high-stakes trial approaches.

BIOTECH: Seed patent lawsuit against Monsanto appealed to Supreme Court

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Plaintiffs in a lawsuit against biotech seed giant Monsanto Co. appealed their case to the Supreme Court yesterday, claiming that the company's patents for genetically altered crops are invalid.

WATER POLLUTION: Green groups jump into lawsuit over CAFO data

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Green groups are hoping to intervene in a lawsuit brought by farm organizations over U.S. EPA's release of livestock data through Freedom of Information Act requests.

WILDLIFE: Want to help injured animals? Soon there could be an app for that

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A California-based group is working on a smartphone application that would help people who have found injured creatures connect with groups and others who can provide assistance.

OREGON: FWS buys former Jesuit retreat for $1M

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The Fish and Wildlife Service has bought a 103-acre addition to the Nestucca Bay National Wildlife Refuge for more than $1 million after five years of trying to broker a deal.

WILDLIFE: Coast Guard aids release of 500 sea turtle hatchlings

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More than 500 sea turtle hatchlings were released by hand yesterday onto seabeds off Florida's Atlantic coast.

NATIONAL PARKS: Yellowstone slowly grows back from destructive 1988 fires

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The most widespread fires in Yellowstone National Park's history may be a quarter-century behind it, but the regeneration of the park's forests remain in its early stages.

WATER: N.M. senator convenes experts in bid to thwart supply shortages in West

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Much of the West may be facing water shortages in the not-too-distant future, but a host of potential new solutions can help avert catastrophe -- if all the competing interests in the region resolve to put their differences aside and work together, New Mexico Sen. Tom Udall (D) said at a conference here yesterday.

GULF OF MEXICO: Treasury proposes long-awaited ground rules for restoration funds

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The Treasury Department today proposed ground rules for how the potentially billions of dollars from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill restoration fund can be spent by Gulf Coast states.

ENERGY EFFICIENCY: Shaheen-Portman bill would create jobs, save money -- study

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An energy efficiency bill awaiting Senate action would create tens of thousands of jobs and reduce utility bills by tens of billions of dollars over the next two decades, according to a study conducted by supporters of the legislation.

POLITICS: FERC chief swayed by Obama admin influence on EPA regulations -- Vitter

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The top Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee is accusing the outgoing chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission of falling prey to politics and colluding with U.S. EPA when supporting new clean air rules, based on a few emails.
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