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HAZARDOUS WASTE: EPA to clean up shuttered Houston plant

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U.S. EPA said yesterday it will clean up an abandoned waste site in south Houston that has concerned the community for years.

NATURAL GAS: Despite trucking boom, interest in fuel lags

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Natural-gas-powered trucks aren't cashing in on the strongest market for commercial trucks in eight years.

RAIL: Oil boom causes grain shipment backlog in N.D.

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Grain shipments in North Dakota are being held up by a boom in crude-by-rail activity, creating a backlog that could cost farmers millions of dollars in losses.

NOAA: Agency slow to fix 'high-risk' problems with satellite controls -- IG

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The ground system for polar-orbiting satellites suffers from many "high-risk" vulnerabilities that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has been slow to repair, according to a new report from the Commerce Department's watchdog.

OIL AND GAS: BP lists aging N.M. wells for sale to raise money for new onshore company

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BP PLC is selling off its aging gas wells in the San Juan Basin in New Mexico in a bid to trim assets before splitting off a separate onshore oil and gas entity that would compete with smaller shale operators in the United States.

ELECTRICITY: Calpine to buy gas plant near Boston from Exelon

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Calpine Corp. is expanding its Northeastern holdings with plans to buy a power plant near Boston from Exelon Corp. for $530 million.

CHEMICALS: LyondellBasell plans new plant on Gulf Coast

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LyondellBasell Industries plans to build a new chemical plant on the Texas Gulf Coast in a bid to capitalize on growing domestic production of natural gas, the company said yesterday.

AGRICULTURE: Nursery industry plans pollinator task force

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The gardening and nursery industry's primary trade group is preparing to launch an industry-based task force to provide technical assistance for the promotion of pollinator health.

NATURAL GAS: Consol kicks off Pittsburgh airport drilling with talk of expansion

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Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett (R) joined executives from Consol Energy Inc. and a local county leader at the official start of a natural gas drilling project estimated at $1 billion in the Marcellus Shale near Pittsburgh International Airport.

ELECTRICITY: West Texas energy boom causes surge in power prices

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The energy boom in West Texas is causing a spike in electricity prices and power demand, worrying energy producers and residents alike.

NUCLEAR POWER: Regulator urges shutdown of Calif. plant

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California's sole nuclear power plant should be shut down until experts prove it can withstand the impacts of an earthquake from nearby fault lines, a top federal nuclear safety expert said.

UTILITIES: Upgrades helped PG&E quickly respond in earthquake's aftermath

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Pacific Gas and Electric Co. used a computer prediction generated in the moments after Sunday's magnitude-6.0 earthquake near Napa, Calif., to estimate that 85,000 customers would lose power, prompting the company to immediately deploy crews in the area.

ENERGY EFFICIENCY: Improvements at smaller data centers could save $3.8B annually -- NRDC

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The majority of power wasted by U.S. servers is found in overlooked corporate data centers -- not Apple Inc.'s or Amazon.com Inc.'s giant cloud-computing operations -- and addressing even half of that waste could save the nation's companies at least $3.8 billion a year, according to a Natural Resources Defense Council report released today.

BUSINESS: Creativity needed to match fossil-fuel companies' 'complete' investments -- report

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Investors that decide to unload investments in fossil fuel companies will be hard-pressed to find other industries that offer "a more complete investment package," according to a Bloomberg New Energy Finance report released today.

GULF SPILL: Judge dismisses $256B lawsuit against BP

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A federal judge has dismissed a $256 billion lawsuit claiming that BP PLC misled regulators about its Gulf Coast drilling operations.

BIOTECH: Judge says Hawaii can't regulate pesticides, GMOs at local level

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A federal judge yesterday blocked enforcement of a controversial Hawaii law that limits the planting of biotech crops and the use of pesticides on Kauai.

ELECTRIC GRID: FERC loses court fight on utility payments for transmission upgrades

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A federal appeals court today threw out the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's approval of a regional operator's decision to require a New Jersey electric utility to pay for grid upgrades that were completed years before it asked to join the operator's network.

WILDLIFE: Ill. grants protections to black bear, wolf, cougar

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Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn (D) signed a bill this week expanding the state wildlife code to protect black bears, gray wolves and cougars as top predators make a slow comeback in the state.

INVASIVE SPECIES: Sheep at N.Y. state preserve cut down on nuisance plants

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Sheep at New York's Rockefeller State Park Preserve are helping to control invasive species and improve soil health.

WILDLIFE: Threatened animals find refuge on tribal lands

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Increasing numbers of young, well-educated Native Americans are returning home to reservations in the Northern Great Plains and putting the large swaths of untouched prairie to use by rejuvenating wildlife populations hindered by development.
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