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WATER POLLUTION: EPA proposes strict limits for massive Alaskan mining project

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U.S. EPA proposed restrictions today on development of a sprawling copper and gold mine project in southwestern Alaska's Bristol Bay watershed following years of political fury over its lengthy environmental review.

CLIMATE: Analysis Group's Tierney says states ready to comply with carbon rule

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How should utility regulators in coal-heavy states be preparing for U.S. EPA's proposed regulations for existing power plants? During today's OnPoint, Sue Tierney, senior adviser at the Analysis Group, discusses a new report focusing on current state policies that could comply with EPA's existing source regulations. Tierney, a former assistant secretary for policy at the Department of Energy, also gives a behind-the-scenes look at last week's National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners summer meetings.

INDIA: Bandits strong-arm villages for water amid drought

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Armed bandits in an isolated region of northern India hit hard by drought have instituted a "water tax," threatening to kill villagers unless 35 buckets are delivered to their hideouts every day.

VIETNAM: Typhoon Rammasun kills 11 more after cutting deadly path across China

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The worst storm to strike southern China in four decades has now killed at least 11 in northern Vietnam and left several missing.

ALASKA: City considers restricting fences that impale moose

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Alaska's largest city is moving to crack down on metal palisade fences, which biologists say have gored at least five moose in recent years.

VERMONT: Bats make themselves at home at State House

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The Vermont Legislature building has gone a bit batty, but state officials are unconcerned.

WEST VIRGINIA: Proposed settlement in chemical leak could fund health studies

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A proposed $2.9 million settlement between Freedom Industries Inc., the company that operated a chemical storage tank that leaked into the drinking water of 300,000 West Virginians earlier this year, and local residents and businesses could fund future health studies of the coal-cleaning compound.

WATER POLLUTION: D.C. rejects gas station art installation in Anacostia River

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A Washington, D.C., agency has turned down a bid from Canadian artist Mia Feuer to build a sunken replica gas station in the Anacostia River in the face of community opposition.

WATER POLLUTION: Calif. reviews fracking injection wells

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Environmental officials in California announced Friday that they are reviewing the state's 1,500 wastewater injection wells to ensure that the byproducts of hydraulic fracturing aren't polluting precious drinking water during the ongoing drought.

AGRICULTURE: Journalist plans to use drones to keep an eye on factory farms

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An independent journalist plans to use drones to get around so-called ag-gag laws in some states that prohibit whistleblowers from surreptitiously gathering images and footage of farms.

CHEMICALS: Panel urges tighter restrictions on plasticizer in children's products

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The Consumer Product Safety Commission should tighten restrictions on the use of a common plasticizer in children's products, according to a report from an advisory panel convened by the agency, which also called for further research on some common substitutes for banned compounds.

INTERIOR: Agency makes a splash on Twitter with striking photos of U.S. landscapes

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The Interior Department's Twitter account has far fewer followers than some of its better-known federal siblings, but the stunning images posted there have helped the agency build a devoted following.

FEDERAL WORKFORCE: Obama signs order banning discrimination against gay employees

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President Obama signed an executive order today that bans discrimination by federal contractors against gay and lesbian employees.

COAL: Proposed Mont. railroad delayed as agency pushes back analysis

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A proposed coal railroad in Montana has been delayed again, the latest problem faced by an industry struggling to access a growing export market.

NUCLEAR WASTE: DOE awarded $1.9M bonus to contractor days after fire closed dump

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The Department of Energy gave a contractor a $1.9 million bonus five days after a truck fire closed the underground nuclear waste dump it operates.

ENERGY EFFICIENCY: Whirlpool seeks immunity from class-action suits over Energy Star program

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Backed by the manufacturing industry, lawmakers are pushing new legislation to ban class-action lawsuits over consumer products that carry the Energy Star label but are found not to deserve the listing.

ELECTRIC GRID: Judges deny utility's bid to avoid transmission project costs

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Federal judges on Friday rejected a major utility's effort to avoid paying the costs of grid infrastructure in a regional transmission organization after the utility left it for another.

TRANSPORTATION: Court denies Chicago suburb's challenge of DOT rail-crossing approval

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A federal appeals court Friday rejected a Chicago suburb's bid to force the Transportation Department to reconsider its approval of a freight rail project without measures to mitigate increased traffic.

AIR POLLUTION: Judges reject Volvo's bid to overturn $72M EPA penalty

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Federal judges on Friday upheld a $72 million penalty imposed on a non-road heavy-duty engine maker for violating U.S. EPA air standards.

AIR POLLUTION: Court won't reconsider EPA's decision not to regulate mine emissions

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A federal appeals court on Friday declined to reconsider a ruling upholding U.S. EPA's decision against regulating coal mine emissions under the Clean Air Act.
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