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WATER POLLUTION: Puerto Rico estuary registers high levels of toxins

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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.

COAL ASH: Tests find elevated levels of arsenic, other pollutants at N.C. spill

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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.

BIOTECH: Food industry pushes for voluntary GMO labeling

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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.

PEOPLE: University taps former USDA official to lead sustainability efforts

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George Washington University has hired Kathleen Merrigan, the former No. 2 official at the Agriculture Department, to be its first executive director of sustainability.

SMART GRID: Utility plans to charge monthly fee to ratepayers who refuse smart meters

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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.

RENEWABLE ENERGY: Caribbean islands begin shift from diesel to solar, wind

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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.

NATURAL GAS: Industry group requests emergency FERC action to secure propane

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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.

DRINKING WATER: State officials appeal judge's decision on Las Vegas groundwater dispute

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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.

AIR POLLUTION: N.D., Okla. take challenge of regional haze decisions to Supreme Court

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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.

WILDLIFE: Entrepreneurs capitalize on climate change, illegal ivory trade in mammoth tusk hunt

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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.

INVASIVE SPECIES: Wasps show promise killing flying 'dirty syringes' that harm Calif. citrus trees

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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.

FISHERIES: Conservationists hope Md. seafood fraud bill will prompt action in other states, federal level

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Conservationists said they hope the introduction of a seafood fraud bill in Maryland will inspire other states and the federal government to take action.

COAL: Arguments set for Monday in high-stakes fight over Obama's mountaintop crackdown

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The Obama administration heads to a federal appeals court Monday in a bid to salvage its controversial crackdown on mountaintop-removal mining.

RARE EARTHS: Blunt floats legislation to promote development, refining

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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.

NUCLEAR POWER: Former Senate aide will oversee San Onofre decommissioning

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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.

ELECTRICITY: Reid, top Dems ask grid overseers to probe protections

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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.

WHITE HOUSE: Obama to announce rural export initiative as he signs farm bill

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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.

EPA: IG to assess agency's regulation of fracking

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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.

SENATE: Mont. lieutenant governor tapped to complete Baucus' term

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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.

ENDANGERED SPECIES: Interior takes up free-market plan to preserve lesser prairie chicken

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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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