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OCEANS: SeaWorld backlash continues months after controversial film's release

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A year after the documentary "Blackfish" premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, the controversy surrounding SeaWorld continues to grow.

KEYSTONE XL: Interior ignored swift fox in pipeline review -- lawsuit

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An environmental group today sued the Interior Department for the release of documents it claims will prove the agency failed to evaluate how the Keystone XL pipeline would affect an endangered fox.

AGRICULTURE: Drones, data rise to fore at Farm Bureau

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The nation's largest agriculture organization adopted new policies this week relating to drones and data as both become increasingly prevalent issues in agriculture.

PEOPLE: Senior appropriator may continue work on enviro issues after retirement

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Rep. Jim Moran of Virginia, who announced his retirement this week after nearly four years as the top Democrat in charge of U.S. EPA and Interior Department spending, today eyed a future of further work on the environment.

HOUSE: Panel votes to allow subpoenas on Interior policies, 'conflicts of interest'

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The House Natural Resources Committee voted today to authorize Chairman Doc Hastings (R-Wash.) to issue subpoenas to continue an investigation of the Obama administration's enforcement of wildlife protection and endangered species programs as well as revisions to a controversial stream protection rule.

CLIMATE: Senate Republicans press EPA chief on legality of power plant proposal

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Senate Republicans tried at a hearing today to poke holes in the legal underpinnings of U.S. EPA's proposal for curbing heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions from future power plants.

DOE: Moniz team strives to make agency a policy heavyweight

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Fourth in a series.

NOMINATIONS: Senate panel advances 11 DOE, Interior picks amid debate on exports

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The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee this morning advanced 11 nominees for Interior and Energy department posts, including Michael Connor for Interior deputy secretary and Neil Kornze for director of the Bureau of Land Management.

CLIMATE: Emails between EPA, enviro group become talking point in GHG rule battle

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Coal industry allies on and off Capitol Hill have seized on emails sent between a Sierra Club lobbyist and U.S. EPA staff that they say confirm their belief that the agency and environmental advocates colluded to write a new power plant rule that would end coal-fired electric generation in the United States.

CLIMATE: McConnell gambit aims to stop just-proposed EPA rule in its tracks

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell -- joined by nearly all his Republican colleagues -- today introduced legislation aimed at blocking U.S. EPA's proposal to limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.

SCOTLAND: Government OKs $273M wind farm

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British energy giant SSE PLC has gotten approval to build a $273 million wind farm in northern Scotland.

RUSSIA: Sochi Olympics are harming environment, villagers say

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As construction workers frantically worked to build massive new infrastructure projects for Russia's Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, environmental impacts were frequently overlooked, some villagers say.

AUSTRALIA: Bush fire has started creating its own weather

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A bush fire in an Australian national park has started causing thunderstorms and lightning, worrying firefighters and officials.

NORTH DAKOTA: Wanted: prosecutor for oil patch drug cases

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The North Dakota Attorney General's Office is seeking a new special prosecutor who would deal only with drug cases in the Bakken region.

NEW YORK: $136M plan tackles Hudson River sewage spills

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New York officials yesterday announced a $136 million plan aimed at reducing sewage spills into the Hudson River.

CALIFORNIA: Men could face federal, state charges for blaze near L.A.

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Three men were arrested yesterday in connection with a damaging California wildfire that destroyed five homes.

CALIFORNIA: Moderate Maldonado drops out of governor's race

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A favorite for the Republican bid for California governor has dropped out of the race.

WATER POLLUTION: Tugboat carrying diesel fuel sinks off Alaska coast

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A boat carrying an estimated 3,500 gallons of diesel fuel sank off the Alaskan coast this week.

WATER POLLUTION: W.Va. House passes spill financial relief bill

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The West Virginia House of Delegates cleared a bill yesterday that would provide financial relief to small businesses that suffered financially as a result of last week's chemical spill.

DEFENSE: Military's use of renewables 'really accelerating,' Pew reports

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The Defense Department's deployment of renewable power at its bases and its efforts to increase energy efficiency have accelerated dramatically in recent years, according to a report released yesterday by the nonprofit Pew Charitable Trusts.
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