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NATIONAL PARK SERVICE: Big donation will restore Arlington House to original state

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A $12.3 million donation from philanthropist David Rubenstein will allow the National Park Service to repair the 200-year-old Arlington House on the grounds of Arlington National Cemetery.

DOE: Panel kicks off probe of national labs' effectiveness

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With the Energy Department's national laboratories system under siege from critics, an independent panel today launched a review of the 17 federal energy labs.

AGRICULTURE: USDA offers $13M to help organic food producers

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The Agriculture Department has made $13 million in farm bill funds available for organic certification cost-share assistance in an effort to ease the burden on small-scale producers and handlers.

BIOTECH: USDA approves herbicide-resistant soybeans

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The Agriculture Department has dropped its regulatory oversight of herbicide-tolerant soybeans developed by Syngenta Seeds Inc. and Bayer CropScience.

OIL AND GAS: Chevron extinguishes fire at Calif.'s Richmond refinery

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Chevron Corp. said it put out a fire early Wednesday at its Richmond, Calif., refinery, the site of a massive blaze in August 2012.

BIOFUELS: Obama admin provides $12.6M for breeding plants for energy

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The departments of Energy and Agriculture yesterday announced funding for 10 projects aimed at genetically breeding plants for bioenergy.

OIL AND GAS: Oxfam threatens lawsuit over SEC payment disclosure rule

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Oxfam America has threatened to sue the Securities and Exchange Commission if it does not swiftly complete a rule that would require publicly traded oil and mining companies to report payments to governments.

ENDANGERED SPECIES: Obesity in zoo elephants deals one more threat to survival

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Around 40 percent of African elephants in captivity are overweight, which could spell disaster for the species because it harms the animals' health and, crucially, their fertility, according to researchers.

WILDLIFE: Bald eagles return to island after 50 years

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A pair of bald eagles are nesting on San Clemente Island for the first time in more than half a century, the National Park Service said yesterday, another sign of the bird's recovery.

ENDANGERED SPECIES: First wild-born gray wolf pups spotted in Mexico

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Mexican officials said yesterday that researchers have spotted the first known litter of Mexican gray wolves to be born in the wild south of the border since the subspecies disappeared there three decades ago.

WILDFIRE: 1 dead in Calif. blaze as Wash. town clears out to escape another fire

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Fire authorities reported that a body was found in an area of Northern California where a wildfire has been burning since last week.

AGRICULTURE: Focus on key areas to ease resource impacts, boost food security -- study

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Revamping the agriculture practices in just a few countries -- the United States, India, Pakistan and China -- could decrease the industry's global environmental footprint and improve food security, according to a new report.

PUBLIC LANDS: North American commission touts plan but draws fire on border issues

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Even as the North American intergovernmental Commission for Environmental Cooperation held its annual meeting and announced work on a long-term strategic plan, the Sierra Club criticized it yesterday for failing to address environmental concerns created by hundreds of miles of border fence built in the United States.

ENDANGERED SPECIES: BLM launches planning updates for Gunnison sage grouse

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The Bureau of Land Management today took the first formal step in establishing more permanent protections for the Gunnison sage grouse across 800,000 acres of western Colorado and southeast Utah, a plan that drew applause from some of the agency's most vocal environmentalist critics.

TECHNOLOGY: Scientists, tech pioneer hail merits of stable research funding in hearing

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Some of the nation's leading scientific ambassadors told a Senate committee yesterday that government support was crucial to their own innovations, as Congress mulls how to continue a slate of programs to coordinate investments in research and development.

WILDLIFE: House bill would create emergency fund to fight diseases

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A pair of House Democrats yesterday reintroduced legislation aimed at fighting emerging wildlife diseases faster.

CAMPAIGN 2014: New McConnell ad blasts Obama, Grimes on coal

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) today released one of his most forceful campaign ads yet attacking the Obama administration for its actions related to coal.

POLITICS: Watchdogs file FCC complaint over Steyer-backed TV ads

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Three government watchdog nonprofits yesterday filed a Federal Communications Commission complaint against a Washington, D.C., TV station for identifying the largely self-funded political action committee (PAC) of billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer -- rather than Steyer himself -- as the sponsor of TV ads in last year's Virginia gubernatorial race.

MARINE MAMMALS: 'Blackfish' casts long shadow as aquarium weighs retirement for dolphins

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BALTIMORE -- Ghosts of the National Aquarium's dolphin show live on two years after its shutdown. The amphitheater -- now called the Dolphin Discovery exhibit -- still has seats marked "splash zone," posters of performing dolphins and large video screens that were used to rev up the crowd for the entrance of the performing animals.

OFFSHORE DRILLING: Obama kicks off search for oil and gas in Atlantic

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The Obama administration today gave final approval to a plan opening the Atlantic Ocean to high-volume oil and gas surveys for the first time in decades, a move strongly backed by industry but that environmentalists warned will cause untold harm to whales, dolphins and other marine creatures.
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