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CARBON CAPTURE: Canadian oil sands plant to build pilot project to scrub emissions

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Husky Energy Inc. will build a pilot project to capture carbon dioxide at the company's Pike Peak South oil project in Saskatchewan, the company said.

KEYSTONE XL: Former President Carter announces opposition to pipeline

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Jimmy Carter became the first former president to officially join the ranks of Keystone XL opponents yesterday, publishing an open letter to President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry.

CLIMATE: Industry points to EPA inventory to show methane is declining without rules

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Hours after U.S. EPA released white papers yesterday that could pave the way for new oil-and-gas-sector regulations, the agency finalized an inventory showing that that sector's methane emissions were lower in 2012 than at any time in the last 20 years.

WILDLIFE: Rare Atlantic seabird sighted on San Francisco's Alcatraz Island

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Biologists are searching Alcatraz Island, in the San Francisco Bay, this week for an unusual seabird sighted there recently.

GULF SPILL: BP, Coast Guard declare shore cleanup over

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BP PLC and the Coast Guard yesterday formally declared the end of the oil company's cleanup operations along the Gulf Coast, nearly four years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

WILDERNESS: Wash. lookout cabin spared from court-ordered removal

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A historic lookout cabin perched far above the Glacier Peak Wilderness in Washington state is now protected from its court-ordered removal under a bipartisan bill President Obama signed into law yesterday.

OCEANS: Marine mammals can detect sounds from readily available sonar systems -- study

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Whales and other marine mammals likely can detect sounds from sonar systems that had been considered out of their hearing range, a new finding that scientists say should play into policymaking.

COLUMBIA RIVER: Northwest lawmakers urge Obama admin to focus on treaty talks

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The congressional delegations from Washington, Oregon, Montana and Idaho yesterday banded together to call on the Obama administration to prioritize action this year on a treaty that governs the Pacific Northwest's mightiest waterway.

WATER POLLUTION: Enviros agree to lengthy extension for EPA power plant discharge rule

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Environmental groups have agreed to give U.S. EPA more than another year to finalize a regulation aimed at curbing toxic wastewater discharges from power plants -- a move intended to give the agency a chance to analyze a trove of new data from industry groups.

UTILITIES: SolarCity claims 'no interest' in helping households go off the grid

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Using a combination of solar panels and batteries to "cut the cord" with a centralized power grid and utilities is not a good solution for future power needs, a co-founder of SolarCity said in a blog post today.

NEWSMAKER: Meet the tiny fish at the heart of Calif.'s latest water battles

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The delta smelt has an unfortunate name; it's easy to say with a sneer. The fish is also quite puny -- 2 to 3 inches, on average -- and physically weak. It can't swim very well.

WETLANDS: EPA promise of 'no net loss' based on faulty assumptions -- IG

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For more than a quarter-century, it has been the policy of every presidential administration to allow "no net loss" of wetlands, and U.S. EPA has touted in its annual reports that the goal is being met.

DOE: Agency offers $4B in loan guarantees for renewable, efficiency projects

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Renewable energy loan guarantees have emerged from political exile.

LAW: Professor tries for double play in toxic tort case before Supreme Court

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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- When John Korzen makes his Supreme Court debut next week, it will mark one of the few times in recent memory that a law school professor has argued before the justices. Korzen represents two dozen landowners seeking damages for environmental contamination in Asheville, N.C. The Wake Forest University professor will be going toe to toe with tough opponents -- an attorney from a global law firm and the Department of Justice, which has intervened on the side of the alleged polluter.

CHINA: 170 dead swine found in river

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At least 170 dead pigs have turned up in a northwest Chinese river in the latest of several similar incidents, state media reported.

JAPAN: Another whale hunt could be called off

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Japan might cancel its imminent northern Pacific Ocean whale hunt, media reports said today, after already canceling another hunt tied to the country's controversial "scientific whaling" program.

MARYLAND: Diesel spill causes limited damage to lake

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Diesel fuel that found its way from a storage tank into a Maryland lake has done only minimal damage, according to the Maryland Department of the Environment.

VERMONT: State closer to becoming first to enforce GMO labeling

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The Vermont Senate passed a bill yesterday that brings Vermont closer to becoming the first state to mandate labeling of foods containing genetically modified organisms.

WASHINGTON: Governor hires coal lobbyist as policy director

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Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) has hired a coal lobbyist to direct his policy office, despite insisting on tough inspections of proposed coal export terminals in the state.

SOLID WASTE: E.U. law would cut plastic bag use 80% by 2019

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The European Union's Parliament passed a measure yesterday that aims to reduce plastic bag use 50 percent by 2017 and 80 percent by 2019.
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