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AGRICULTURE: More than 100 House members urge leaders to link conservation, subsidies

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As the farm bill chugs along in Congress, more than 100 members of the House are calling on their leaders to tie conservation requirements to the billions of dollars in subsidies that farmers receive each year toward purchasing crop insurance.

ENERGY POLICY: As Markey promotes clean energy in first Senate speech, Ky. Dem replaces him on House panel

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Sen. Ed Markey laid out an ambitious energy agenda in his first speech on the Senate floor this morning, pledging to introduce legislation setting a 25 percent target for "clean energy and energy efficiency improvements" in the country by 2025.

TECHNOLOGY: 'Fab labs' out front in U.S. push to make manufacturing cool

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The second of a series on the future of U.S. manufacturing..

CLIMATE: Obama admin, House Republicans clash over cost of carbon rules

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Two members of President Obama's energy team today defended the administration's climate change policies before a House Energy and Commerce subpanel that has repeatedly tried to roll back their authorities.

KEYSTONE XL: House GOP pairs pipeline approval with debt limit bill

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House Republicans today said they are readying legislation that links approval of Keystone XL to a must-pass increase in the nation's borrowing limit, once again giving the controversial oil sands crude pipeline a starring role in a weeks-long, high-stakes fiscal showdown with President Obama and his party.

ENERGY EFFICIENCY: Bill on life support as Reid rejects GOP demand for unrelated votes

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One unrelated vote was an acceptable price to move a stalled energy efficiency bill, but five is too high. That was the message from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) this morning as he threatened to abandon consideration of the first energy bill in six years over Republicans' demand for votes on five "nongermane" amendments.

JAPAN: Prime minister calls for shutdown of all Fukushima Daiichi reactors

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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe today ordered the operator of the country's damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to shutter all six reactors at the site and to focus on pressing matters like radioactive water leaks.

LEAD: Regulators order battery recycler to cut production at Calif. plant after emissions spike

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After an air monitor revealed lead emissions had surpassed health standards over a 30-day period, air quality regulators yesterday ordered battery recycler Exide Technologies to cut production at its Vernon, Calif., plant.

WATER: Feds, tribes collaborate on Colorado River shortage study

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The Bureau of Reclamation yesterday signed an agreement with 10 American Indian tribes to study tribal water resources in the Colorado River Basin in an effort to address shortages.

WATER POLLUTION: Oil seeps into flooded South Platte River

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Workers have set up booms to try to contain a 5,250-gallon oil spill into the flood-gorged South Platte River in Colorado.

HIGHWAYS: Obama admin offers $531M loan for Texas I-35 expansion

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The Department of Transportation announced a $531 million loan today for an interstate highway expansion in the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area.

ETHANOL: No injuries after tanker catches fire in Minn.

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No one was injured when a tanker truck carrying a full load of ethanol caught fire yesterday near Roseville, Minn., officials said.

COAL: BLM rejects Wyo. bid deemed below fair market value

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The Bureau of Land Management yesterday rejected a $35 million bid from Kiewit Corp. for a 1,254-acre tract for coal mining in Campbell County, Wyo.

ETHANOL: USDA to buy more sugar for fuel production

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The Department of Agriculture is planning another purchase of excess sugar for resale to ethanol producers in a bid to boost falling domestic sugar prices.

GULF SPILL: Halliburton to plead guilty to criminal charge

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Halliburton Co., the oil field services provider that supplied the cement for the well that blew out during a deadly rig explosion and massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, will plead guilty today to a misdemeanor criminal charge in the case.

OIL AND GAS: Ecuador released Chevron from pollution liability -- tribunal

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Despite a $19 billion award against Chevron Corp., international arbitrators ruled the oil company had settled claims for damages in agreements with Ecuador surrounding a lengthy legal dispute over Amazon rainforest pollution.

OCEANS: New app aims to reduce whale strikes

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A new app, called "Whale Spotter," aims to use crowdsourcing to cut down on the number of accidents involving ships striking and killing whales off the California's coast.

OCEANS: Fla. university takes over NOAA's former underwater lab

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The Aquarius Reef Base, the world's only operational underwater research laboratory, has just completed its first underwater NASA training mission since Florida International University took the reins of the facility earlier this year.

ENDANGERED SPECIES: Molasses spill didn't harm threatened sea life -- Hawaiian official

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A Hawaiian official said that no endangered marine life has been hurt as a result of a recent molasses spill in Honolulu's harbor.

FISHERIES: Sea bass stocks drop to lowest point in 20 years

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Sea bass populations have fallen to their lowest point in two decades, researchers said.
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