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There's rising interest on Capitol Hill in ending the decades-long U.S. impasse over nuclear waste disposal, but a key industry player questions whether the Obama administration and electric utilities are game.

Colorado Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper has followed through on his vow to fight the Obama administration's decision to give the Gunnison sage grouse federal protection, with the state filing a federal lawsuit this week that drew raves from a powerful Republican congressman.

Endangered species issues attracted a lot of attention from K Street in 2014, some of it for clients who aren't often focused on the fate of imperiled plants and animals. Last year, more than 130 entities -- including trade groups for motorcyclists, opera singers and public-sector workers -- paid lobbyists to contact lawmakers or regulators about endangered species, according to a Greenwire analysis of quarterly lobbying disclosure filings, the last of which were due near the end of January.

This week, E&E Publishing launched its Power Plan Hub, a one-of-a-kind interactive tool featuring details about U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan. On today's The Cutting Edge, ClimateWire reporter Emily Holden discusses the unique elements of the tool and how Power Plan stakeholders will benefit from this resource.

Conservation authorities are fighting to prevent more deaths in a mass whale stranding in New Zealand's Golden Bay that has already killed 24 pilot whales.

China must slice its pollution in half if it wants to see any noticeable improvement to its environment, a senior government official said today.

Rescue workers have found two more bodies on an oil ship that exploded off the coast of Brazil, increasing the death toll to five.

New legislation in Montana would give counties the final say in whether wild bison could be relocated to within their boundaries.

The West Virginia Coal Association is pushing through the state Legislature a series of regulatory changes that would weaken environmental and mining safety rules.

A mysterious gray substance that coated and killed 170 seabirds near San Francisco has been identified as synthetic oil.

U.S. Steel Corp. is set to fight state regulators over new mining standards that could affect its mine in northern Minnesota.

U.S. troops in Afghanistan burned hazardous waste, including batteries and aerosol cans, in open pits near military bases, according to a new federal audit of U.S. operations in Afghanistan.

Intersections with traffic lights are pollution hot spots during morning and evening car commutes, according to a study published yesterday.

Scrutiny is needed to ensure that money from California's $7.5 billion ballot measure on water is spent correctly, the state's nonpartisan watchdog told lawmakers yesterday.

The coal industry's woes are likely to continue throughout the year with companies remaining in the red, according to a new round of mining industry earnings reports.

The Agriculture Department's Office of the Inspector General is looking to increase its attention to the Farm Service Agency and other programs for criminal investigations, shifting resources away from the contentious food stamp program.

The Interior Department hopes you'll become enamored with public lands this Valentine's Day.

The Department of Energy's internal watchdog has found that Los Alamos National Laboratory has made repeated mistakes when protecting its own secrets, including when it came to reviewing an employee's published article.

Catholic cardinals are reportedly discussing the establishment of an environmental think tank following Pope Francis' remarks that mankind was a driving force behind climate change.

A federal judge halted a wild horse roundup in northern Nevada on Wednesday with a rare preliminary injunction, ruling federal officials had not completed a stringent enough analysis of horse environmental impacts.

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