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WATER POLICY: Sportmen's groups lament exclusion from hearing on wetlands rule

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Sportsmen's groups are miffed that their voices were not represented in a House field hearing earlier this week that explored the impacts of an Obama administration proposal aimed at clarifying which headwater streams and wetlands receive federal protection.

PEOPLE: Clinton Cabinet members recall former president's green 'awakening'

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In 1995, then-President Clinton went camping.

NATURAL GAS: Judges seem open to second-guessing FERC in N.Y. pipeline case

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Residents of a town in southeastern New York fighting a natural gas compressor station appeared to gain some traction with federal appellate judges today in a packed Washington, D.C., courtroom.

KEYSTONE XL: Stand-alone vote likely in Senate as efficiency bill bogs down

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Senators appear to have coalesced around a stand-alone vote on the Canada-to-U.S. pipeline that's become a household name, but the bipartisan energy efficiency bill Keystone XL is linked to remains hobbled by procedural difficulties ahead of a possible floor debate next week.

EPA: International office lost track of hundreds of passports

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U.S. EPA's international affairs office lost track of about 200 passports purported to be in its possession, according to a new report from the agency's watchdog.

TRANSMISSION: White House set to approve multistate line over DOD objections -- N.M. officials

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New Mexico leaders say they've been told that the Obama administration is set to approve routing a contested power line project near an Army missile testing range, a move that they say will put the range's mission at risk and weaken national security.

ENERGY POLICY: E&E Daily's Schor talks Keystone XL politics as Senate considers vote

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The politics of the Keystone XL pipeline are back in full focus this week as Senate leadership considers a vote on a measure that would bypass the Obama administration on a final decision. What are the legislation's prospects and how does this vote play into midterm politics? During today's The Cutting Edge, E&E Daily reporter Elana Schor, updates the vote count, the politics and previews the Senate's action, which could occur as early as next week.

SIERRA LEONE: Islanders say China's sea cucumber craze has led to broken promises

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China's craze for sea cucumbers has reached a group of islands in Sierra Leone.

UNITED KINGDOM: 5 rare monkeys plucked from British zoo

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Word has gone out to airports and seaports to be on the lookout for five monkeys snatched in a British zoo heist that authorities are calling "planned and premeditated."

CALIFORNIA: Director of troubled toxics agency leaves for S.F. post

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The director of California's Department of Toxic Substances Control has resigned after three years at the agency's helm to accept the top job at San Francisco's Department of the Environment.

SOLID WASTE: EPA helps put out 5-year fire at Puerto Rico tire site

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U.S. EPA officials have partnered with local Puerto Rico authorities to put out a fire that has been burning for five years at a tire disposal site, they said yesterday.

OCEANS: Boat on Wash. shore could be debris from Japanese tsunami

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Washington state officials are investigating whether a small boat that washed up onshore was part of debris crossing the Pacific Ocean from Japan after the 2011 tsunami.

TOXICS: Federal report backs health complaints about Chinese drywall

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Chinese-made drywall installed in more than 20,000 homes in the United States, many of them in the South, may have caused nosebleeds, headaches, difficulty breathing and asthma attacks, according to a government report released today.

WATER POLLUTION: Duke CEO agrees to canoe with enviros on contaminated river

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The CEO of Duke Energy Corp. said she would take a canoe trip on North Carolina's Dan River with environmentalists to view the remnants of the company's coal ash spill in February.

AIR POLLUTION: Calif. fines Ford nearly $3M for faulty car computer

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California's Air Resources Board said late Wednesday that it would fine Ford Motor Co. nearly $3 million over a faulty pollution control system on some of its vehicles sold in the state.

URANIUM: EPA proposes to revamp radon release rules

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U.S. EPA today released a proposal to overhaul and modernize Clean Air Act rules for uranium mining and milling facilities.

ALTERNATIVE FUELS: Toyota gives startup $7.2M to speed hydrogen stations in Calif.

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Toyota Motor Corp. is giving at least $7.2 million to a startup to help speed the opening of hydrogen-fuel stations in California, according to letters filed with the state Energy Commission.

BICYCLING: Wash. first, Ala. last in annual ranking of bike-friendly states

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For the seventh consecutive year, Washington state is the nation's most "bicycle friendly," according to the latest annual scorecard from the League of American Bicyclists.

DOE: Department 'exposure is significant' on billion-dollar loans -- GAO

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The Department of Energy has had spotty oversight and has been slow to fill key positions as it monitored billion-dollar loan guarantees for energy projects across the country, according to a report released yesterday by Congress' watchdog.

OIL AND GAS: Snow removal continues at Alaska oil spill

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Crews working day and night continue to clean up snow coated with oil in the days after a BP PLC pipeline leak in the Prudhoe Bay oil field.
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