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HOUSE: Diaz-Balart to chair Transportation Approps subpanel

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Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.) will head the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development in the 114th Congress that takes office in January.

HOUSE: Democrats release full slate of ranking members

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House Democratic leaders yesterday released a new lineup of ranking members for the 114th Congress, making leadership changes at the Natural Resources Committee and Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.

APPROPRIATIONS: Rogers names new panel members, subcommittee chairs

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House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) today released the names of new subcommittee chairs and four additional Republican members who will join the panel next year.

CLIMATE: Methane rules crucial to U.S.-China agreement -- report

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If U.S. EPA plays its regulatory cards right, it could cut methane from the oil and gas sector in about five years and at the cost of only 1 percent of the sector's annual revenue, helping to fulfill President Obama's climate commitments in the process.

ENERGY MARKETS: Senate report sees 'catastrophic risks' in banks' dealings with commodities

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Three of the largest U.S. banks exposed themselves to "catastrophic risks" such as pipeline explosions, coal mine accidents and oil spills and cornered certain commodity markets in ways that raised fears of potential market manipulation, senior U.S. senators said today as they released a massive report following a two-year investigation.

AIR POLLUTION: House passes GOP bill aimed at spurring permits for manufacturers

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The House today voted 238-172 to approve a bill by Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) aimed at speeding up air quality permitting for new manufacturing facilities.

AIR POLLUTION: FERC validates utility's bid to delay compliance with EPA toxics rule

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Federal energy regulators validated the first utility request today for more time to comply with U.S. EPA's mercury and air toxics rule.

DOE: Hanford whistleblower probe stalled early on -- memo

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A Department of Energy investigation into the contentious firing of a Hanford nuclear waste site official met initial resistance from some of the government's biggest contractors.

OCEANS: Debate churns as NOAA is set to open U.S. waters to aquaculture

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Giant cages float off the shores of Hawaii, housing hundreds of thousands of yellowtail snapper in the deep waters of the Pacific. The so-called Hawaiian Kampachi spend about one year in their net pens before they're put on ice and sold to restaurants and wholesalers in the United States and abroad. They are a rare breed: the product of one of the few open-water fish farms in the United States. They may not keep that status for long. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is on the verge of setting a regulatory system and allowing as many as 20 permits for farms in the Gulf of Mexico, in what supporters hope is the seed of a nationwide industry.

REGULATION: Greenwire’s Peterka discusses EPA’s action on 2014 RFS

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Before year's end, U.S. EPA is set to release several major regulations, including the final 2014 renewable fuel standard and a proposed rule for ozone standards. On today's The Cutting Edge, Greenwire reporter Amanda Peterka, explains how these moves by the agency could influence future regulatory action. She also talks about the anticipated fallout each announcement could carry.

KENYA: Development shrinks Nairobi National Park

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One of Africa's oldest national parks is under threat from Kenya's ever-growing capital city.

WASHINGTON: Anti-wolf group ramps up campaign

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A new anti-wolf group has targeted Spokane, Wash., with a billboard campaign emphasizing the dangers of living near the animals.

ALASKA: Lynx hunting, trapping postponed until 2020

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The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has closed the Kenai Peninsula to lynx hunting and trapping until 2020.

MASSACHUSETTS: State board recommends lifting nation's only ban on offshore sand mining

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A Massachusetts government board has proposed allowing the state's first offshore sand mining operations.

AIR POLLUTION: EPA rejects bid to scuttle permit for Calif. gas-fired power plant

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U.S. EPA has denied environmentalists' bid to shoot down the operating permit for an Antioch, Calif., gas-fired power plant.

TRANSIT: Development at metro stops no slam dunk -- GAO

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In the 15 years since a Metrorail transit station opened in Washington, D.C.'s once-sketchy Columbia Heights neighborhood, daily ridership has tripled and a wave of new construction has followed.

PESTICIDES: CropLife America hires new VP for scientific affairs

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CropLife America, the trade group for U.S. agricultural pest management companies, has hired Janet Collins to be senior vice president of science and regulatory affairs. She will begin Jan. 5.

RENEWABLE ENERGY: Wal-Mart responds to critics with solar power announcement

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Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, yesterday announced a significant expansion of its renewable energy production efforts.

OIL SANDS: Mining companies followed protocol amid bird deaths

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The Alberta Energy Regulator said oil sands operators Syncrude Canada Ltd., Suncor Energy Inc. and Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. were following waterfowl protection requirements when 196 birds died in tailing ponds earlier this month.

NATURAL GAS: Businesses, school evacuate after Wyo. propane explosion

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Several businesses and a school were evacuated in Jackson, Wyo., yesterday after multiple explosions at a propane dealer.
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