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RAIL: New freight reporting requirements take effect today

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Beginning today, the nation's major freight railroads must report weekly to the Surface Transportation Board on systemwide average train speeds, the reasons for significant train delays and other performance issues. The first round of reports, required from BNSF Railway Co., Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. and other Class I carriers, are due by the close of business late this afternoon and will be posted on the agency's website by tomorrow, a spokesman said.

OBITUARY: Texas oil tycoon Bunker Hunt dies

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Nelson Bunker Hunt, the Texas oil tycoon who attempted to conquer the silver market, died yesterday at age 88 after a long battle with cancer and dementia.

MINING: Women send message in male-dominated industry

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The email said output delays were down 75 percent, but that wasn't the only reason Jacqui McGill was excited.

SOLAR: Corporations offer employees PV perks

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A number of major companies are adding solar energy system discounts to their lists of employee benefits.

SOLAR: Utilities edge into market for rooftop panels

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Large utility companies are expanding into the residential solar market as they try competing with the industry they once viewed as a threat.

ELECTRICITY: Backup grids ensure reliability at military bases

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Military bases across the country are working to develop their own power grids to protect themselves from hackers, terrorists and natural disasters.

FINANCE: N.Y. green bank steers $800M to 7 'clean energy' projects

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NEW YORK -- Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) today revealed the first seven projects to be funded by his state's "green bank," totaling $800 million worth of private and public investments.

FLORIDA: South Fla. officials mull secession to cope with sea-level rise

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Rising sea levels are elevating secession rhetoric in South Florida.

CARBON CAPTURE: DOE-backed project turning Texas plant's CO2 into baking soda, bleach

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Carbon emissions from a Texas cement plant are being captured and converted to baking soda and bleach under a new demonstration project funded by the Energy Department.

OIL AND GAS: Bakken murder suspect to plead guilty today

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A Colorado man is expected to plead guilty to murder today in the 2012 slaying of a popular high school teacher that rocked a small Montana town straining to cope with growth brought on by the Bakken Shale oil boom.

BIOFUELS: Watchdog sues EPA over 2014 RFS documents

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A nonprofit legal watchdog yesterday launched a lawsuit against U.S. EPA accusing the agency of failing to respond to a request for documents related to the renewable fuel standard.

AIR POLLUTION: Appeals court backs EPA on regional haze program

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A federal court yesterday affirmed EPA's approval of a regional cap-and-trade program for sulfur dioxide emissions in the Colorado Plateau over objections by environmentalists.

INVASIVE SPECIES: Carp DNA turns up in Lake Michigan tributary

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A sample taken from a tributary of Lake Michigan tested positive for invasive Asian carp DNA, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources announced yesterday.

ADVOCACY: Outdoor industry group taps Eagle Creek founder as interim chief

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The Outdoor Industry Association today named Steve Barker, the former owner of travel outfitter Eagle Creek, as its interim executive director.

NOAA: Hydrologist faces federal indictment over theft of sensitive data

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A hydrologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is accused of stealing sensitive data from the National Inventory of Dams, according to a recent federal indictment.

NORTH CAROLINA: Tillis tacks slightly toward center on climate change

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North Carolina Republican Senate nominee Thom Tillis shifted more toward the center on climate change yesterday, saying the argument is still out on the causes of global warming.

MASSACHUSETTS: Utility rate hikes crop up in gubernatorial debate for tossup race

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Republican gubernatorial candidate Charlie Baker seized on announced utility rate hikes for Massachusetts residents last night to argue that his rival, state Attorney General Martha Coakley (D), has failed to properly advocate for taxpayers during her time in office.

NEW HAMPSHIRE: Shaheen, Brown clash over climate, nukes; both duck carbon tax talk

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Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Republican challenger Scott Brown tussled over nuclear power and climate change in the first televised debate of their campaign last night.

COLORADO: Fighting for his political life, Udall is depending on women to save him

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AURORA, Colo. -- Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), the chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, had already launched into a reminder about an upcoming get-out-the-vote rally when he paused to greet the crowd before him a second time: "Hello, ladies. Thanks for coming."

CLIMATE: Senate-voting states don't like EPA power plant rule -- industry poll

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Voters in states with competitive Senate races this year are more wary of U.S. EPA's proposed Clean Power Plan than the national average, according to a new industry-backed poll.
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