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FEDERAL AGENCIES: Official portraits can define legacy, trim a few pounds -- but it comes at a price

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Grandiose portraits -- a rite of passage for agency chiefs and other top government officials – adorn the walls in agencies, courtrooms and Congress. But they’re on the chopping block as lawmakers have painted them an exercise in vanity and a waste of taxpayer cash.

BIOFUELS: Biodiesel Board's Jobe talks politics of latest renewable fuel standard delays

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Does U.S. EPA's deadline extension for compliance with the 2013 renewable fuel standard further make the case against the industry and its ability to meet the targets? Was the agency's decision a political one? During today's OnPoint, Joe Jobe, CEO of the National Biodiesel Board, discusses the latest delay and its impact on the timeline for the release of final 2014 targets.

SPAIN: Conservationists try to recreate lost wild environments in Europe

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Spanish conservationists are busy turning disused farmland into a nature reserve as part of a more widespread European movement to bring back stretches of wilderness that haven't existed for centuries on the continent.

CHINA: Official blames pencil chewing for children's lead poisoning

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The Chinese government official in charge of a town located next to a chemical plant attributed excessive levels of lead found in children to pencil chewing.

OREGON: Project would make state the first to map GMO fields

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An effort in Oregon would make it the first state to map fields containing genetically modified crops.

CALIFORNIA: Lawmakers OK budget including cap-and-trade funds for high-speed rail

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California lawmakers yesterday approved a $156.4 billion budget that includes funding for the state's high-speed rail project.

TOXICS: L.A. agency must test for lead at impoverished housing project

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Los Angeles housing authorities must test the soil of a housing project in a poverty-stricken section of Watts for lead contamination, a California environment agency ordered.

CHESAPEAKE BAY: Phosphorous pollution gets worse in some areas

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Phosphorus pollution continues to plague the Chesapeake Bay three decades after restoration efforts formally began.

ADVOCACY: Greenpeace loses $5.2M in rogue currency trade

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Greenpeace has lost $5.2 million on an unauthorized financial trade made by one of its employees.

AGRICULTURE: Vilsack calls for 'common language' of science in Europe trade talks

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European negotiators will need to compromise on some hard-held positions to successfully pass a trade agreement with the United States, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said yesterday.

OIL AND GAS: Gazprom cuts off natural gas to Ukraine

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Russia's state-owned energy giant OAO Gazprom today cut off its supply of natural gas to Ukraine, deepening the political crisis between the two nations.

EXTREME WEATHER: Interior doles out $100M for restoration, resiliency

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Interior Secretary Sally Jewell announced $102.7 million in grants this morning to help communities along the Atlantic Coast cope with storms like Superstorm Sandy.

OCEANS: Icebergs banging up Antarctic sea floors more often as temps rise -- study

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Stray icebergs are wreaking havoc on the ecological systems of the shallow Antarctic seas as global temperatures warm up and the big chunks bang into the seabed, a new study finds.

AIR POLLUTION: Iowa Supreme Court reinstates class-action suit against corn factory

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The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday reinstated a major environmental case: a class-action lawsuit brought by residents against a company they blame for covering their properties with chemicals and soot.

WATER POLLUTION: Wyo. ranchers sue stream-monitoring enviros for trespassing

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A group of Wyoming landowners is suing a conservation organization, accusing its members of trespassing on private land to collect water samples.

DEFENSE: Supreme Court seeks Obama admin input on defense 'burn pit' cases

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The Supreme Court today asked the Obama administration to weigh in on two cases brought by veterans and their families against defense contractors for exposure to toxic burn pits and other hazardous conditions in Iraq and Afghanistan.

FEDERAL AGENCIES: Justices to weigh need for public notices on 'interpretive' rule changes

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The Supreme Court agreed today to consider whether a federal agency must hold a public notice-and-comment period for changes to interpretations of its own regulations.

WILDFIRE: Calif. blaze threatens 500 homes

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A fire burning in and around the Sequoia National Forest has destroyed at least two structures and led authorities to call for the evacuation of around 500 homes in central California.

ENDANGERED SPECIES: Burying beetle redigging a foothold in Mo.

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American burying beetles are digging their way back into Missouri soil and, scientists hope, off the endangered species list.

INVASIVE SPECIES: N.Y. lake becomes 'model' with mandatory inspections of every boat

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New York's Lake George has become the first lake in the East to require inspections of every boat and trailer for invasive species.
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