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PUBLIC LANDS: Energy companies stockpiling drilling permits across West

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Scott Kidwell, a top executive for Concho Resources Inc., came to Capitol Hill in July to urge senators to pass a bipartisan bill to expedite drilling permits on public lands. The Bureau of Land Management, he said, is taking 133 days to approve permits in southeast New Mexico's Permian Basin, where the Midland, Texas-based company operates, up from just 80 days in 2011. BLM permitting times are increasing by the day as more companies home in on the oil-rich basin, threatening to crimp job creation and reduce royalty revenues in New Mexico, he said. But BLM data show that Concho already owns -- but has yet to use -- more than 150 drilling permits it received as far back as 2010 in southeast New Mexico's Eddy and Lea counties.

ELECTRICITY: EnergyWire's Behr discusses impact of Nature gas study on utility industry, power generation

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New research published in Nature questions natural gas's ability to usher the United States toward a low-carbon future. How could this impact the future of the country's electricity generation fleet? On today's The Cutting Edge, EnergyWire reporter Peter Behr discusses natural gas's role in carbon-constrained power generation.

AUSTRALIA: Invasive species controls inadequate -- groups to Parliament

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Environmentalists told Australian officials that yellow crazy ants are waltzing into the country's biologically unique ecosystem, and not enough is being done to stop them.

UNITED KINGDOM: Group moves to halt beaver capture

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An environmental group has filed legal action against Natural England, the United Kingdom's environmental adviser, over the government's effort to trap a family of beavers in Devon, England.

JAPAN: Volcano shows signs of activity near nuclear plant

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A volcano near a nuclear plant in southern Japan is showing increased signs of activity, said Japanese officials today.

AUSTRALIA: Officials scrap plan to cull sharks

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The Western Australian government has abandoned its plan to cull large sharks near populated beaches, Collin Barnett, the state's premier, said today.

SOLID WASTE: Mich. landfill withdraws application for higher radiation limit

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A Michigan hazardous waste landfill has withdrawn a request to state regulators to increase its allowed radiation limits.

LEAD: Fishing groups decry possible equipment ban

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Fishermen in California are crying foul over a proposal by the state's Department of Toxic Substances Control to study whether it should ban lead sinkers and other lead fishing gear.

PESTICIDES: EPA moves to remove dozens of chemicals from approved ingredients list

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A U.S. EPA proposed rule seeks to strike 72 chemicals from the approved list of inert ingredients allowed in pesticides, the agency announced yesterday afternoon.

DROUGHT: Water shortage dries up local economies, small towns in Calif.

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The drought devastating much of California is affecting dozens of small towns around the state, including Stratford, Calif.

ARMY CORPS: Enviros settle legal push to block dredging project

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Environmental groups yesterday abandoned an emergency bid to stop a Florida dredging project after receiving promises from the Army Corps of Engineers that it will work to make sure the project doesn't disturb sediment and coral.

COAL ASH: State lawmakers press EPA for 'strong' rule

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More than 150 state lawmakers from around the country are pressing U.S. EPA to release "strong, federally enforceable" standards for the disposal of coal combustion waste.

AIR POLLUTION: Calif. delinquent on Clean Air Act's good neighbor requirements -- EPA

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U.S. EPA today faulted California for not complying with the good neighbor provisions of the Clean Air Act.

TRANSIT: D.C. mayor scales back streetcar plan

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Washington, D.C., officials yesterday abandoned most of an ambitious plan to build more than 20 miles of streetcars, opting instead to complete about 8 miles of track at a cost of around $1 billion.

INFRASTRUCTURE: BlueGreen Alliance seeks $1.6T in new federal spending

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Pumping more money into transportation projects, electric grid upgrades and other infrastructure work could produce a double payoff of more jobs and less pollution, leaders of the BlueGreen Alliance said in a report released this morning.

AGRICULTURE: Billionaires snatch up mega-ranches

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As the economy rebounds and drought conditions stabilize across the American West, billionaires are buying up mega-ranches due to a spike in cattle prices as well as the oil and gas boom and the 2 percent interest rates on ranch mortgages.

COAL: W.Va. miners head to the West

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The coal industry is booming in Wyoming and busting in West Virginia, and many Appalachian miners are following mining companies to the West.

FEDERAL WORKFORCE: Employees' morale still in the dumps

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Morale is still hurting across the government and remains in the gutter for many employees at environmental and energy agencies.

SOLAR: Homeowners with rooftop panels do so for image, not politics -- study

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Homeowners who choose to go solar might not be doing so to make a political statement, according to a new study by researchers at Yale University and the University of Connecticut.

AGRICULTURE: Appeals court sides with OSHA on workplace rules for combustible dust

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A federal appeals court today rejected a challenge from the grain industry to the Obama administration extending workplace safety protocols to the handling of combustible dust at mills.
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