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OIL AND GAS: Cleanup crews find no more contamination in Lake Michigan spill

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Search teams checking an area of Lake Michigan yesterday were unable to find any more oil in the water, officials said.

OIL AND GAS: Tar balls from Houston spill wash up 200 miles away

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Oil from last week's Galveston Bay spill in Texas has washed up on the shores of Mustang Island State Park, nearly 200 miles from the original spill site.

ETHANOL: USDA says it has no immediate plans to use sugar purchase program

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The federal government has no immediate plans to use a program that allows it to purchase excess sugar in the market and sell it to ethanol producers.

LNG: Former DOE secretary defends agency but calls for 'concrete' export policy

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Former Energy Secretary Bill Richardson this weekend weighed in on a raging debate on Capitol Hill and defended his former agency's pace of approving proposed exports of liquefied domestic gas to foreign neighbors and allies.

ENERGY EFFICIENCY: DOE swiftly approves another standard to meet Obama's climate goal

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Chilly open-air refrigerators and walk-in freezers will consume up to 40 percent less power under new energy efficiency standards released last week by the Energy Department.

AIR POLLUTION: Wyo. sues EPA over regional haze plan

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Wyoming sued U.S. EPA on Friday in the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver over the agency's regional haze plan, arguing that it is too restrictive and would burden the state's businesses.

FISHERIES: Court rules that feds mismanaged Gulf red snapper recreational season

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The National Marine Fisheries Service mismanaged the red snapper recreational sector in the Gulf of Mexico when it issued quotas and fishing season lengths last year, a federal court ruled last week.

INTERIOR: Supreme Court declines review of Alaska challenge to water management

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The Supreme Court today declined to review a long-running challenge from Alaska to Interior Department management of the state's streams and waterways.

ENDANGERED SPECIES: New kill-free caviar harvesting could ease pressure on wild sturgeon

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A new technique for harvesting caviar by massaging female fish could make the eggs more abundant and ease the black market pressure on endangered wild sturgeon, a German scientist said.

OCEANS: Trash complicates search for missing flight

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The search for debris from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has been complicated by a broad environmental problem: ocean garbage.

EARTHQUAKES: Tremors strike Yellowstone, Los Angeles

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A magnitude-4.8 earthquake struck Yellowstone National Park yesterday, marking the biggest temblor in the park since 1980.

OCEANS: U.N. court bans Japanese whaling

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A U.N. court today ruled that Japan must halt whaling operations in the Antarctic.

ENDANGERED SPECIES: FWS ponders protection for Alaskan wolf -- a decision that could impact logging industry

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The Fish and Wildlife Service will consider federal protection and critical habitat for an Alaskan wolf, decisions that could affect old-growth logging in the region.

EPA: GOP aims to force agency to consider jobs impact of regs

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Senate Republican hope to move legislation as soon as this week that would force U.S. EPA to scrap air quality rules that they say will have an adverse impact on employment.

TAX POLICY: Extenders markup slipping as wind backers step up PTC campaign

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The Senate Finance Committee's effort to reinstate a variety of business tax breaks is being delayed as panel members continue to grapple with the details of legislation they hope to soon consider.

CAMPAIGN 2014: Alaska airwaves thick with ads as Begich strives to prove independence

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It's hard to believe there's anything on Alaska's airwaves these days other than campaign ads in the fight for the seat held by Sen. Mark Begich (D).

FOREST SERVICE: Survey of law enforcement workers shows low morale, discontent with leadership

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Most law enforcement employees at the Forest Service -- from officers to supervisors -- don't think the head of their division is effective, according to a survey released today.

PIPELINES: Feds allow oil to begin running through southern leg of pipeline that ruptured in Ark.

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Almost exactly one year after Exxon Mobil Corp.'s Pegasus pipeline spilled 5,000 barrels of heavy crude into the Little Rock suburb of Mayflower, Ark., federal regulators today allowed the company to begin running oil through the southern section of the line at reduced pressure and gave it one week to finish a detailed testing plan to ensure future safe operation.

WATER POLICY: Judge sends controversial transfer rule back to EPA

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A federal judge on Friday sent U.S. EPA's controversial "water transfer" rule back to the agency to reconsider, holding that the agency overstepped its legal authority.

ADVOCACY: Behind multiple local campaigns to ban fracking, one Pa. legal clinic

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On a local level, the work of Ben Price and his colleagues shows up under names like the Youngstown Community Bill of Rights or the Lafayette Community Rights Act.
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