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NEW YORK: City struggles to phase out dirty heating fuel

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Buildings in New York City are struggling to comply with an ambitious ban on dirty forms of heating oil.

NEW JERSEY: State replaces Sandy contractor with firm that struggled after Katrina

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To help homeowners rebuilding after Superstorm Sandy, New Jersey is replacing one troubled contractor, Hammerman & Gainer Inc., with another, ICF International, that was criticized in the past for its work with Hurricane Katrina victims.

WATER POLLUTION: EPA to clean up PCB-laced mud in Calif. 'den of iniquity'

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U.S. EPA will begin cleaning up a contaminated San Francisco waterway between Candlestick Point and the Hunters Point Shipyard, the agency has announced.

AIR POLLUTION: Smog study aims to reduce asthma in Houston school kids

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Researchers at Rice University have launched a study of air pollution near Houston schools.

WATER POLLUTION: Human waste may have been illegally dumped in N.M. rivers

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Septic waste could be leaking into New Mexico rivers from sewage systems or may have been illegally dumped, according to a preliminary environmental study.

UTILITIES: Laclede Group snaps up Alabama Gas for $1.3B

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St. Louis-based utility Laclede Group Inc. is buying Alabama Gas Corp. for $1.3 billion.

ALTERNATIVE FUEL: Calif. city to use food waste to power garbage trucks

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A Sacramento, Calif., neighborhood will be part of a rare experiment to fuel city garbage trucks with its leftovers.

NUCLEAR POWER: Dozens of plants face pricey earthquake safety tests

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Under revised estimates of earthquake risk, at least two dozen nuclear reactors in the United States have told the Nuclear Regulatory Commission they are unable to show their plants can withstand the most severe quake they might face, requiring them to complete costly new safety assessments, according to industry.

PEOPLE: Federal Highway Admin's top lawyer returns to firm

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Fred Wagner, chief counsel for the Federal Highway Administration during the last three years, has rejoined his previous law firm, Beveridge & Diamond PC, where he will head the natural resources and project development practice group.

SUPREME COURT: Justices decline to review W.Va. Monsanto dioxin settlement, Mich. mine challenge

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The Supreme Court today declined to review a class action settlement between West Virginia residents and Monsanto Co. over the production of chemicals that resulted in residents' exposure to hazardous levels of dioxins.

FISHERIES: Warm weather will send striped bass up Delaware River

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An injection of warmth will trigger the annual Delaware river-spawning run of the striped bass, experts say.

OCEANS: Poorer water quality could be drawing jellyfish to Puget Sound

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Scientists aren't sure why more jellyfish are appearing in Puget Sound but suspect it might have to do with declining water quality in the area.

AGRICULTURE: Texas rice farmers reeling from drought

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A lengthy drought in Texas has wreaked havoc on the state's once-booming rice farming industry.

WILD HORSES: BLM agrees to work with fed-up Utah county to bring numbers down

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The Bureau of Land Management has agreed to remove wild horses overpopulating drought-damaged rangeland in Utah after Iron County commissioners threatened to take matters into their own hands (Greenwire, April 4).

WILDLIFE: Hunters in S.C. kill more than 11,500 cormorants in a month

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Conservationists are livid after hunters in South Carolina killed 11,653 double-crested cormorants in one month this winter.

WATER POLICY: Army fort's groundwater pumping won't derail species recovery -- FWS

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The Fish and Wildlife Service and the Army, after years of litigation with conservation groups, have finalized a new biological opinion that they say should allow an Arizona Army base to continue tapping groundwater without harming the San Pedro River Basin and two endangered species that depend on it to survive.

PUBLIC LANDS: BLM begins rounding up illegal cattle in Nev. desert

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The Bureau of Land Management on Saturday began rounding up and impounding several hundred cows illegally grazing public desert lands about 90 miles northeast of Las Vegas, inciting threats from the rancher who owns them.

PUBLIC LANDS: Coburn details concerns over bill protecting Mont. watershed

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A bill to protect more than 380,000 acres of federal lands west of Montana's Glacier National Park from future oil and gas and mining development neglects the possibility that future energy technologies could be less disruptive to the environment, said Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), who blocked the bill from passing the Senate last week.

CLIMATE: McCarthy says power plant rule will be flexible but require results

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U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy today said the power plant climate rule now being reviewed by the White House will give states broad latitude to determine how to bring down their carbon dioxide emissions, but that it will require provable emissions reductions.

KEYSTONE XL: As enviros open closing arguments, 100 scientists and economists urge Obama to nix pipeline

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More than 100 scientists and economists today released a public plea that President Obama reject Keystone XL -- including two academics whose previous comments about the emissions impact of the Canada-to-U.S. oil sands crude project have provided fodder for pipeline backers.
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