A top U.N. climate official will not attend a high-level meeting in Kenya next week because he is being investigated for sexual harassment by Indian police.
PEOPLE: Harassment charges force IPCC's Pachauri to skip climate talks
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SCIENCE: Researcher favored by skeptics failed to disclose industry grants -- records
Wei-Hock Soon, a scientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics whose research has provided fodder for climate change skeptics for years, accepted more than $1.2 million from the fossil fuel industry while failing to disclose the grants on most of his scientific papers, records show.
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OCEANS: Acidification threatens economies of 15 coastal states -- report
Ocean acidification threatens the coastal economics of 15 states that rely on the sale of shellfish, according to a "vulnerability assessment" unveiled today by environmentalists.
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TRANSPORTATION: Justices won't take up enviro bid to halt U.S.-Canada bridge
The Supreme Court today declined to review an environmental challenge to a proposed Federal Highway Administration bridge between Detroit and Canada, effectively allowing the project to move forward.
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CLIMATE: 2 Harvard Law profs back EPA in Clean Power Plan lawsuit
Two Harvard Law School professors jumped to U.S. EPA's defense last week in a lawsuit challenging the agency's proposed greenhouse gas standards for power plants.
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WILDLIFE: Evolution has made ocean life larger -- study
Marine animals are 150 times bigger on average than they were 550 million years ago, according to a new study by Stanford University researchers.
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WILD HORSES: Animals slated for release kept captive after appeal
An appeal from a rancher and rural county has put on hold a Bureau of Land Management plan to return 186 wild horses to central Nevada.
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PUBLIC LANDS: Forest Service official criticizes agency's outreach
A Forest Service supervisor in Utah is speaking out against the agency's communication, saying the service must learn how to better engage the public in its decisions.
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FISHERIES: Rules may change for cod catch in Northeast
Fishermen in the Northeast may soon be able to catch more cod per trip, after the National Marine Fisheries Service announced it would reconsider emergency measures aimed at protecting the fish's diminishing population.
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ENDANGERED SPECIES: Idaho proposes sage grouse protections on additional state lands
The state of Idaho has proposed a new conservation plan to protect some of the most important greater sage grouse habitat in the state, in an ongoing effort to prevent the bird from being listed for federal protection.
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MARINE MAMMALS: 5-year permit proposed for seismic surveys in Alaska's Cook Inlet
The National Marine Fisheries Service is considering a five-year permit to allow seismic surveys in Alaska's Cook Inlet, in a move that could harass as many as 30 endangered beluga whales each year.
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POLITICS: Podesta sees climate work as biggest achievement
Former White House aide John Podesta said the president's climate and energy agenda was where he had the most impact during his year in the White House.
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CLIMATE: Industry strategist funded studies targeting Clean Power Plan
Controversial industry strategist Richard Berman, whose web of nonprofit organizations has made waves for attacking seemingly noncontroversial groups like the Humane Society and Mothers Against Drunk Driving, has funded 16 studies and launched at least five front groups to target U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan rules.
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CALIFORNIA: Lieutenant governor will head State Lands Commission
California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom is the new chairman of the State Lands Commission.
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PUBLIC LANDS: Backcountry sportsmen's group beefs up policy, outreach team
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers, a national sportsmen's advocacy group based in Missoula, Mont., has hired two new staff members to strengthen its policy and communications work.
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NUCLEAR POLICY: Industry cheers as DOE overhauls Reagan-era export rule
The Obama administration today issued a final rule for the export of commercial nuclear technology, marking a victory for industry executives and former regulators who warned the previous 1980s-era language was outdated and threatened to stymie sales abroad.
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COAL ASH: Despite agreement on N.C. spill, Duke legal troubles far from over
Federal prosecutors late Friday filed criminal charges against three Duke Energy Corp. subsidiaries stemming from an investigation into last year's coal ash spill from a company plant in northern North Carolina.
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CLIMATE: Manufacturers decry Clean Power Plan, threaten to take flight
Manufacturers of chemicals, plastics, steel and other energy-intensive commodities wouldn't be regulated directly by U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan for power plants, but they're openly fretting that the rules are going to take a bite out of their bottom lines.
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WHITE HOUSE: Obama flexes muscles on resources with eye on legacy
President Obama has quickly built a fat portfolio on natural resource issues. In the last two years, he's designated or expanded a dozen national monuments, preserved more than 1.1 million acres in the West and moved to permanently ban drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. He's proposed in the last month the biggest expansion of offshore oil and gas exploration in a generation, paving the way for rigs in mostly virgin mid-Atlantic waters, while permitting the first production in the largest U.S. petroleum reserve. As the clock ticks down on Obama's term, his allies and critics are sizing up his record -- and thinking about what he'll do next.
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TANZANIA: Farm growth could increase risk of plague
The growth of farming in East Africa could attract more rats infected with diseases like the plague to population centers and could increase the risk of epidemics, according to a study published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
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