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FEDERAL WORKERS: Obama to sign equal pay orders for contractors

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President Obama will roll out initiatives this week aimed at increasing pay transparency and limiting the gender wage gap for federal contractors.

OIL AND GAS: Bakken boom town invests in 'quality of life,' builds palatial rec center

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WILLISTON, N.D. -- From three stories above, the water slide corkscrews and curls, winding its way outside a building where temperatures sometimes dip to 30 below zero and lower, and then swirling back inside before it plunks its slippery charges into the warm pool.

BRISTOL BAY: Rio Tinto gives up on Pebble

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Mining giant Rio Tinto PLC has decided to give up its roughly 19 percent stake in Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd., the parent company of the controversial Pebble copper and gold mine planned for southwestern Alaska.

COAL: Pugnacious Blankenship undaunted by accusations on anniversary of deadly mine blast

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Former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship won't back down.

BIOFUELS: EPA delays, ethanol credits take center stage in RFS court battle

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The oil industry today took its fight against U.S. EPA's 2013 renewable fuel mandate to court, urging appellate judges to vacate the agency's target for biofuel use in gasoline and diesel.

CLIMATE: Policy Integrity adviser Livermore says administration underestimating social cost of carbon

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Amid a major lobbying effort in Washington surrounding the social cost of carbon, has the Obama administration been transparent enough with its modeling and final cost determination? How likely is a legal challenge to the administration's current rule? During today's OnPoint, Michael Livermore, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law and a senior adviser at the Institute for Policy Integrity, explains why he believes the administration could be underestimating the social cost of carbon.

OREGON: Documents raise questions about herbicides sprayed near homes

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Newly released documents show that a helicopter pilot being investigated by Oregon regulators sprayed more toxic chemicals than originally thought.

CALIFORNIA: Police seek Smart car vandals

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Police are searching today for whoever flipped four Smart cars on their sides or roofs in a vandalism spree in two San Francisco neighborhoods yesterday.

CHEMICALS: Loopholes let food companies self-certify safety of additives -- report

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Loopholes in a half-century-old food safety law allow food manufacturers to use chemicals that may cause health problems as they self-certify the compounds as safe, one of the nation's largest environmental groups said in a new report.

PESTICIDES: EPA agrees to limited efforts after enviro petition on protecting kids

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U.S. EPA last week committed to reducing the impact of pesticides on vulnerable children but stopped short of taking all the steps requested by a 5-year-old petition from environmentalists and public health advocates.

WATER POLLUTION: 'SWAT' teams test L.A. storm runoff under cover of darkness

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When a storm hits, the environmental group Los Angeles Waterkeeper begins its soggy work in the Los Angeles Basin, coordinating crews of environmentalists through text messages, maps and assignments.

AIR POLLUTION: International group keeps 2016 deadline for cleaner engines on new ships

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An international committee regulating the shipping industry has decided to stick with a deadline of 2016 for new big ships to have engines that burn less nitrogen oxides (NOx).

AIR POLLUTION: EPA launches effort to promote sustainability, emissions cuts at ports

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BALTIMORE -- U.S. EPA is launching a new sustainable ports initiative and is also planning to award $4.2 million to six U.S. ports to retrofit or replace diesel engines to cut pollution.

DOE: Congress may want to eliminate vehicle loan program -- GAO

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Congress may want to jettison funding for an Energy Department program meant to spur new vehicle technologies, according to the government's watchdog agency.

ELECTRIC VEHICLES: Tesla offers business leasing program for Model S

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Small and medium-sized businesses have a new financing option for electric cars as Tesla Motors Inc. launches a business leasing program.

ELECTRIC VEHICLES: GM will invest $450M to jolt Volt, Cadillac ELR

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General Motors Co., looking to ramp up the production and development of its Chevrolet Volt and Cadillac ELR hybrid-electric vehicles, is expected to announce a $450 million injection into two Michigan plants today.

COAL: Another top mining company goes bankrupt

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James River Coal Co., one of the country's top mining companies, yesterday filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, citing ongoing weak market conditions.

PEOPLE: Senior Exelon exec to lead research institute's board

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The head of the largest utilities on the East Coast has been chosen as the new chairman of the Electric Power Research Institute's board of directors.

BUSINESS: Shell, dozens of companies call on governments to cap emissions

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Royal Dutch Shell PLC and Unilever NV, along with 68 other companies, have called on world governments to cap carbon dioxide emissions at 1 trillion metric tons since the Industrial Revolution in a bid to slow climate change.

WILDLIFE: India's mammals have shown a 100,000-year knack for survival -- study

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A diverse "mosaic" of ecosystems may have helped shelter India's mammal species from extinction due to climate change over the past 100,000 years in one of the planet's most densely populated regions, according to new research.
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