A southwestern Puerto Rico estuary is experiencing some of the worst pollutant concentrations measured in the history of a nearly 30-year-old monitoring program, federal researchers said.
WATER POLLUTION: Puerto Rico estuary registers high levels of toxins
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COAL ASH: Tests find elevated levels of arsenic, other pollutants at N.C. spill
Testing by environmental groups revealed elevated levels of numerous pollutants, including arsenic and lead, in North Carolina's Dan River, the site of the country's third-largest coal ash spill in history.
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BIOTECH: Food industry pushes for voluntary GMO labeling
Big food companies are pushing a plan to allow voluntary labeling of genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, amid fears that they might face mandatory laws in the future.
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PEOPLE: University taps former USDA official to lead sustainability efforts
George Washington University has hired Kathleen Merrigan, the former No. 2 official at the Agriculture Department, to be its first executive director of sustainability.
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SMART GRID: Utility plans to charge monthly fee to ratepayers who refuse smart meters
Commonwealth Edison customers who refuse to let workers install new smart meters on their properties will have to pay $21.53 a month, regulators said this week.
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RENEWABLE ENERGY: Caribbean islands begin shift from diesel to solar, wind
Several Caribbean nations yesterday agreed to replace diesel generators -- their most common electricity source -- with renewable energy, as part of a new climate charge effort by Richard Branson, the billionaire founder of the Virgin Group.
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NATURAL GAS: Industry group requests emergency FERC action to secure propane
The National Propane Gas Association asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission yesterday to exercise emergency powers and fast-track shipments of propane into the Midwest and Northeast, where supplies are the lowest they've been in more than two decades.
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DRINKING WATER: State officials appeal judge's decision on Las Vegas groundwater dispute
State and local regulators have appealed a state judge's ruling that the city did not have water rights to groundwater beneath four eastern Nevada valleys.
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AIR POLLUTION: N.D., Okla. take challenge of regional haze decisions to Supreme Court
A pair of states are seeking a Supreme Court review of U.S. EPA's regional haze plan in the first challenge to the controversial visibility improvement program before the nation's highest court.
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WILDLIFE: Entrepreneurs capitalize on climate change, illegal ivory trade in mammoth tusk hunt
Climate change and the illegal ivory trade are driving a small group of enterprising engineers and investors to lead the search for a new commodity: mammoth tusks.
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INVASIVE SPECIES: Wasps show promise killing flying 'dirty syringes' that harm Calif. citrus trees
California researchers this week said they have gotten positive early results releasing a six-legged weapon from Pakistan into the wild to fight another Asian insect that ruins citrus trees.
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FISHERIES: Conservationists hope Md. seafood fraud bill will prompt action in other states, federal level
Conservationists said they hope the introduction of a seafood fraud bill in Maryland will inspire other states and the federal government to take action.
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COAL: Arguments set for Monday in high-stakes fight over Obama's mountaintop crackdown
The Obama administration heads to a federal appeals court Monday in a bid to salvage its controversial crackdown on mountaintop-removal mining.
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RARE EARTHS: Blunt floats legislation to promote development, refining
Missouri Republican Sen. Roy Blunt introduced legislation yesterday with West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin to promote the development of rare earth element mines in the United States.
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NUCLEAR POWER: Former Senate aide will oversee San Onofre decommissioning
The former chief of staff to Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) will oversee Edison International's decommissioning of the shuttered San Onofre nuclear power plant.
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ELECTRICITY: Reid, top Dems ask grid overseers to probe protections
Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California is prepared to ask the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for "minimum security standards for critical substations" in response to a high-profile and mysterious attack on the grid in California that's grabbing national headlines.
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WHITE HOUSE: Obama to announce rural export initiative as he signs farm bill
President Obama will both announce an initiative to boost rural exports and sign the farm bill into law this afternoon during a visit to Michigan State University.
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EPA: IG to assess agency's regulation of fracking
U.S. EPA's inspector general is planning a broad review of the agency's regulation of hydraulic fracturing, according to a memo released today.
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SENATE: Mont. lieutenant governor tapped to complete Baucus' term
Montana Gov. Steve Bullock (D) today appointed Lt. Gov. John Walsh (D) as the state's newest senator, tapping his second in command to fill the remaining 11 months of ex-Sen. Max Baucus' (D) term.
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ENDANGERED SPECIES: Interior takes up free-market plan to preserve lesser prairie chicken
The Interior Department this morning announced it will consider a free-market habitat exchange as a way to conserve and restore the imperiled lesser prairie chicken, part of a multipronged approach to blunt the economic impacts of the bird's likely listing under the Endangered Species Act.
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