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: Uranium waste on Navajo reservation displaces residents
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TOXICS: CDC links contaminated water to cancer death rates at Camp Lejeune
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.
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NUCLEAR WASTE: Monitors detect airborne radiation near N.M. repository
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.
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WATER POLLUTION: Midwest farmers ease into credit system to fight Gulf 'dead zone'
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.
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WATER POLLUTION: Spill sends 'blackwater' into W.Va. creek
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.
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ETHANOL: Big retailers to warn customers about E15
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.
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NATIONAL LABS: Audit faults DOE for lax efforts to commercialize research
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.
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OIL AND GAS: Feds may allow BP to bid on contracts again soon -- CEO
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.
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BIOFUELS: 'Forever young' duckweed has big potential as raw material
A flowering plant no larger than a pencil-tip eraser might emerge as an important raw material for biofuels.
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GRID: FERC to probe gas price spikes during deep freeze
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.
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GRID: FERC member warns against overreaction to substation attack
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.
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DOE: Moniz confirms trip to India to discuss climate is back on
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.
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GULF SPILL: Judge dismisses conflict-of-interest claim in BP engineer's case
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.
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OIL AND GAS: Alaska's top court upholds higher pipeline property taxes
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.
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INTERIOR: Tribe challenges federal decision on natural gas royalties
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.
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WILDLIFE: North American leaders set up panel to save monarch butterfly
The United States, Canada and Mexico have agreed to work to conserve monarch butterflies.
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DROUGHT: Heavy rains bypass Calif., putting 15% of state at 'exceptional drought' level
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.
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OCEANS: Biologist discovers 19th new marine worm in six years
For marine biologist Michael Reuscher, worms are life.
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TRANSMISSION: BLM advancing multistate line on route that avoids most sensitive landscapes
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.
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DROUGHT: Calif. governor proposes $687M bill to combat water shortage
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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