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TOXICS: Uranium waste on Navajo reservation displaces residents

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Uranium pollution on a small slice of the Navajo Nation's reservation is raising the prospect that the residents who live there may have to forfeit their land.

TOXICS: CDC links contaminated water to cancer death rates at Camp Lejeune

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A government study released yesterday found people stationed at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina before a cleanup effort of contaminated water started were more likely to die from multiple cancers and Lou Gehrig's disease.

NUCLEAR WASTE: Monitors detect airborne radiation near N.M. repository

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An independent monitoring center said yesterday it found radioactive isotopes in an air sensor a half-mile from the Carlsbad, N.M., nuclear waste repository that was shut down last week, but the readings were far below what U.S. EPA deems unsafe.

WATER POLLUTION: Midwest farmers ease into credit system to fight Gulf 'dead zone'

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A pilot program set to fully launch next month will pay farmers in the Midwest to run their farms in a way that doesn't contribute to a growing "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico.

WATER POLLUTION: Spill sends 'blackwater' into W.Va. creek

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Polluted water has spilled from a former slurry impoundment that a company recently reopened in order to search for leftover bits of coal, inspectors from the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection reported.

ETHANOL: Big retailers to warn customers about E15

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Three large retailers plan to warn customers around the country this spring that high levels of ethanol could damage their lawn mowers and chain saws.

NATIONAL LABS: Audit faults DOE for lax efforts to commercialize research

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Department of Energy efforts to push federal laboratory research into the marketplace lack "urgency and priority," despite a directive from the White House and Congress to expedite technology transfers, the Office of the Inspector General said in a report today.

OIL AND GAS: Feds may allow BP to bid on contracts again soon -- CEO

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BP PLC may soon be allowed to bid for federal contracts after an almost 15-month ban, according to a senior official in the company.

BIOFUELS: 'Forever young' duckweed has big potential as raw material

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A flowering plant no larger than a pencil-tip eraser might emerge as an important raw material for biofuels.

GRID: FERC to probe gas price spikes during deep freeze

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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission plans to probe recent wintry wallops that triggered both unprecedented natural gas price spikes in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic in recent weeks and the agency's first-ever order for a private pipeline to ship propane into the Midwest.

GRID: FERC member warns against overreaction to substation attack

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John Norris, a Democratic member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, criticized a former agency member and elected officials today for overreacting to a physical attack on the grid in California and warned that doing so could cost the electric industry billions of dollars.

DOE: Moniz confirms trip to India to discuss climate is back on

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Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz yesterday said he will travel to India in two weeks, and climate change will be at the top of the list of discussion topics.

GULF SPILL: Judge dismisses conflict-of-interest claim in BP engineer's case

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A federal judge denied a conflict-of-interest accusation made by a former BP PLC engineer in a case against him related to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

OIL AND GAS: Alaska's top court upholds higher pipeline property taxes

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The Alaska Supreme Court upheld a ruling yesterday that assigned a significantly higher value to the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, allowing municipalities in Alaska to collect higher tax revenue from pipeline owners.

INTERIOR: Tribe challenges federal decision on natural gas royalties

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A Native American tribe yesterday asked federal appellate judges to strike down an Interior Department decision that the tribe says robbed it of natural gas royalties.

WILDLIFE: North American leaders set up panel to save monarch butterfly

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The United States, Canada and Mexico have agreed to work to conserve monarch butterflies.

DROUGHT: Heavy rains bypass Calif., putting 15% of state at 'exceptional drought' level

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Drought-ravaged California was disappointed again this week when a much-anticipated storm was shunted northward, dumping its ample precipitation on the Pacific Northwest instead.

OCEANS: Biologist discovers 19th new marine worm in six years

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For marine biologist Michael Reuscher, worms are life.

TRANSMISSION: BLM advancing multistate line on route that avoids most sensitive landscapes

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The Bureau of Land Management is set to release the preliminary environmental review of a proposed multistate transmission line that's expected to carry wind-generated electricity from southern Wyoming to major load centers in the West.

DROUGHT: Calif. governor proposes $687M bill to combat water shortage

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California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) and state lawmakers yesterday proposed a bill to deal with the state's historic drought by providing $687 million for drinking water, food, housing and water storage projects.
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