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INTERIOR: BOEM announces new chief for renewable energy

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The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management yesterday announced that Jim Bennett will become chief of its Office of Renewable Energy Programs.

PEOPLE: Firm bolsters energy practice by hiring from rival

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Law firm Crowell & Moring LLP yesterday bolstered its energy practice by poaching a partner from a rival firm.

EPA: Think tank sues for emails related to McCarthy's text messages

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A conservative-leaning think tank is suing U.S. EPA yet again under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to get to the bottom of Administrator Gina McCarthy's missing text messages.

ENDANGERED SPECIES: Engineers model river to save sturgeon

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Federal agencies are using an unconventional tool in their effort to save the endangered pallid sturgeon from running into the Yellowstone River's Intake Dam.

PUBLIC LANDS: BLM punts Wyo. lease sale to 2016

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In an effort to reduce conflict with nearby landowners, the Bureau of Land Management has decided to postpone leasing 22,000 acres of land outside Casper, Wyo., for oil development until next year.

CHESAPEAKE BAY: Dead zones creep into shallow water -- study

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Scientists are worried about the future of shellfish in the Chesapeake Bay after a study released by the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center yesterday found that low-oxygen dead zones are not confined to deep water.

FOREST SERVICE: Entrepreneurs win $100K for bolstering biomass market

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The National Forest Foundation yesterday announced the winners of $100,000 in prize money for business proposals that aim to commercialize low-value wood products, a major challenge facing the Forest Service as it seeks to restore millions of acres of overstocked forests.

INTERIOR: Official who led grouse planning to lead BLM operations center

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The Bureau of Land Management yesterday announced that Ed Roberson, who for the past several years has been BLM's assistant director overseeing renewable resources and planning and spearheaded the agency's sage grouse efforts, will become director of BLM's National Operations Center (NOC) in Denver.

OCEANS: Seeking compromise, council punts on deep-sea coral decision

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In an attempt to foster compromise, East Coast fishery managers yesterday delayed a decision on a proactive fishing ban in wide swaths of the ocean that was proposed to protect delicate, slow-growing deep-sea coral.

ENDANGERED SPECIES: Ranchers crucial to saving sage grouse -- USDA

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Federal partnerships with private landowners across the West have resulted in protecting millions of acres of greater sage grouse habitat, according to a new report that underscores the critical role ranchers play in ongoing efforts to save the imperiled bird.

SENATE: Commerce Dems round out subcommittee assignments

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Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), the ranking member of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, this morning filled out the rosters of the panel's half-dozen subcommittees. Nelson yesterday named the ranking members for each subpanel; today's announcement means both parties have their subpanel lineups in place for the 114th Congress.

SENATE: Energy, resources committee names subpanel rosters

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The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee today announced the full lineup for its four subpanels.

MINING: Reform bill would impose royalty, reclamation fee

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Top Democrats and environmental groups will gather tomorrow on Capitol Hill to renew their push for Congress to reform the General Mining Act of 1872.

RAIL: House panel approves Amtrak reauthorization

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The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee unanimously waved through a four-year Amtrak reauthorization bill on a voice vote this morning, despite Democratic complaints it wouldn't provide enough money for the perennially strapped passenger railroad.

PEOPLE: Calif. climate adviser owns lumber company

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One of California Gov. Jerry Brown's (D) leading climate change advisers is a billionaire timber man.

CLIMATE: Oil firms should abandon 'low profile' in combatting warming -- Shell chief

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The oil industry has a role to play fighting climate change in order to instill "realism and practicality," Royal Dutch Shell PLC's chief executive will say today.

CAMPAIGN 2016: Philadelphia to host Dem convention

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The Democratic National Committee announced today that it will hold its presidential nominating convention in Philadelphia.

CLIMATE: Mass. groups blast biomass use to meet state Clean Power Plan goals

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Six Massachusetts environmental group sent a letter to U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy yesterday, expressing concern that the agency may treat biomass power as carbon-neutral under the Clean Power Plan.

NUCLEAR: Browner's pro-reactor campaign faces green backlash -- NEI

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President Obama's former climate adviser Carol Browner has gotten "nasty" emails from her colleagues in the environmental community for leading a pro-nuclear campaign focused on fighting climate change, the president of the Nuclear Energy Institute said today.

CHEMICALS: EPA assessment program stays on high-risk list as GAO cites slow progress

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A biennial ritual, the Government Accountability Office's list of high-risk programs was a chance for lawmakers to take agencies to task for putting taxpayer funds at risk of waste, fraud and abuse. For chemical safety advocates, the report also shows that U.S. EPA is still falling short in its duty to protect the public from toxic chemicals.
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