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WILDLIFE: Elk herds avoid energy development -- study

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Elk herds actively avoid areas with energy development, according to a new study tracking the animals' movements through federally managed land in Wyoming.

ENDANGERED SPECIES: Enviros petition for recovery plan for crustacean found in Md., D.C.

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Environmentalists today called on the Obama administration to ensure the survival of a crustacean found only in Maryland and Washington, D.C.

WILDFIRE: Interior, partners tout projects to protect water supplies

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FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- Interior Department officials joined foresters and water managers here Thursday to tout new investments in an interagency effort to protect key water facilities from future wildfires.

COAL: USGS cuts back on mountaintop-removal mining research

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The U.S. Geological Survey is cutting back on researching the environmental and public health effects of mountaintop-removal coal mining.

CAMPAIGN 2014: Poll on Hawaii Dem primary shows one incumbent winning and another losing

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Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie trails his Democratic primary challenger, state Sen. David Ige, by a 10-point deficit in a newly released poll commissioned by the League of Conservation Voters.

CAMPAIGN 2014: Ad hits Iowa GOP Senate candidate ahead of oil industry fundraiser

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A pro-ethanol organization this week is running radio ads in Iowa hitting Republican Senate candidate Joni Ernst.

ADVOCACY: Former Landrieu aide lobbies for oil and gas company

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A former aide to Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) has signed up to lobby on oil and gas issues.

POLITICS: House Dem jests that pool would facilitate Issa 'witch hunts'

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A freshman House Democrat thinks installing a pool in Rep. Darrell Issa's committee room would help facilitate GOP "witch hunts."

EPA: House Republican compares climate, coal rules to 'terrorism'

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A House Republican lawmaker today suggested that the Obama administration's environmental regulations are a form of terrorism.

CLIMATE: McCarthy says utility rule achievable, even for coal states

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With hearings on her agency's flagship climate change proposal set to kick off this week in four cities, U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy today framed the power plant proposal as a boon to the economy as well as to the environment.

OCEANS: BOEM hunts offshore sand for rebuilding battered Atlantic beaches

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Sand inevitably gets carried home after a day at the beach, but when Superstorm Sandy scoured the north Atlantic Coast in 2012, it took more than its fair share.

AIR POLLUTION: Judge orders EPA to set standards for 3 toxins

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A federal judge ordered U.S. EPA on Friday to set air standards for three hazardous air pollutants, ruling that the agency is long overdue in meeting Clean Air Act requirements.

EPA: Top official announces resignation

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U.S. EPA's top human resources official is taking off for a job in the private sector.

NOAA: Weather satellites criticized again, this time for security risks

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The data from weather satellites could be hacked because of "significant security deficiencies" in the information systems at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, according to a new internal report.

BIOFUELS: Algae industry groups' Carr presses EPA to include algae carbon capture in final emissions rule

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As U.S. EPA holds a series of public hearings on its Clean Power Plan this week, stakeholders will have the opportunity to argue their cases before senior agency officials. During today's OnPoint, Matthew Carr, executive director of the Algae Biomass Organization, discusses his group's plans to press EPA to include algae carbon capture as part of its final rule for existing power plants. Carr also talks about his organization's new Washington, D.C.-based lobbying push.

LEAD: Mining pollution beat explorers to South Pole by 20 years

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Industrial pollution from lead, zinc and silver mines in Australia reached the South Pole more than 20 years before the first Europeans, a new study has found.

NUCLEAR WASTE: Officials cited N.M. repository on 52 safety violations

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Federal officials in June cited New Mexico's currently idled underground nuclear waste storage site for dozens of workplace safety violations, though nearly all of those have since been corrected.

PUBLIC HEALTH: Review panel affirms listing of styrene as possible carcinogen

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The National Toxicology Program was correct to list styrene as "reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen" in 2011, a science panel said yesterday.

WATER POLLUTION: Sailors to test Rio's dirty waters ahead of Olympics

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Sailors practicing this weekend in Rio de Janeiro ahead of the 2016 Summer Olympic Games will test how well they can perform in the city's polluted water.

ARMY CORPS: Agency schedules listening sessions on WRRDA implementation

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The Army Corps of Engineers will hold a series of public listening sessions over the next two months about implementation of a new water resources law.
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