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MARINE MAMMALS: SeaWorld goes on offensive with new ad campaign

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SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. has launched its second advertising campaign in as many weeks amid falling revenues and park attendance.

OCEANS: Cousteau 3-D film showcases tiniest creatures in vivid detail

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At the start of Jean-Michel Cousteau's new film, "Secret Ocean," translucent bulbs of plankton drift above the audience in 3-D, undulating in a dance that would be invisible to the naked eye.

BRISTOL BAY: Pebble hires 2 firms to review EPA actions

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Pebble LP, the company wanting to develop a large copper and gold mine in southwestern Alaska, has commissioned two Washington, D.C., firms to conduct an independent review of U.S. EPA's work on the issue.

ENERGY POLICY: BP severs ties with ALEC

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Oil company BP PLC has dropped out of the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council, the company confirmed yesterday.

CAMPAIGN 2016: NRDC launches ads targeting Sens. Portman, Toomey on climate

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A green group today launched an ad campaign targeting the climate records of two swing-state Republican senators up for re-election in 2016.

CAMPAIGN 2016: Coats won't seek re-election to Ind. Senate seat

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Indiana Sen. Dan Coats announced today he will not seek re-election next year.

COAL: Ex-Interior deputy calls for 'carbon adder' for federal leases

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Former Interior Department Deputy Secretary David Hayes is calling on the Obama administration to boost its scrutiny of federal coal leases, plus add the social cost of burning coal to the price of allowing mining companies to extract the fuel from public land.

PUBLIC LANDS: Lawmakers float quick-moving extension of county payments

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House leaders today announced legislation to extend payments to forested counties in the West for two years, a proposal that is expected to receive a House vote this week.

CLIMATE: GOP senator floats amendments targeting carbon tax, treaties

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Two Republican senators have added an anti-carbon tax amendment to the pile of measures waiting for votes this week during floor debate on the Senate's fiscal 2016 budget resolution.

INTERIOR: Senators want permanent watchdog on job 'expeditiously'

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A bipartisan group of senators think it's been too long since the Interior Department had a permanent watchdog to root out waste, fraud and abuse.

POLITICS: Inhofe in no rush to confirm EPA nominees

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Sen. James Inhofe isn't in a hurry to get President Obama's picks for U.S. EPA on the job.

COAL: Court orders Army Corps to rethink streamlined permits for strip mining

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The Army Corps of Engineers has agreed to take another look at the potential impacts of a streamlined permitting scheme for smaller coal strip mines while environmental groups sue to limit the practice.

GRID: Mo. senators join push to shield utilities squeezed by competing rules

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Bipartisan legislation introduced this morning on both sides of the Capitol would protect utilities from lawsuits if they violate environmental laws while operating to maintain grid reliability.

LAW: DOJ environment chief unbowed as Obama's agenda faces heavy fire

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The Department of Justice's environmental division is under siege.

PUBLIC LANDS: 'Quietly philanthropic' tycoon makes his mark in the West

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A Swiss billionaire is forging a conservation legacy across the western United States and having an outsized influence on federal policies.

REGULATION: Public Power's Ditto pushes legislative fix to FERC's power plan role, federal agency moves

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What role should the federal government play in guiding the electric power sector's evolution? During today's OnPoint, Joy Ditto, senior vice president for legislative and political affairs at the American Public Power Association, discusses the regulatory and market factors at play in the transformation of utilities. She also weighs in on transmission and infrastructure challenges that could face public power under the Clean Power Plan.

AUSTRALIA: Lawmaker dubs enviros 'eco-traitors' for Great Barrier Reef lobbying

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Environmentalists are guilty of treason for lobbying the United Nations to protect the Great Barrier Reef, an Australian lawmaker said today.

EUROPEAN UNION: Overfishing continues despite international commitment

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Two studies conducted by environmental groups cast doubt on the European Union's commitment to fish sustainably and stay within safe scientific limits.

COSTA RICA: Renewables power nation for 75 straight days

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Heavy rainfall has helped Costa Rica run exclusively on renewable energy for the past 75 days.

CHINA: Nation used more cement in 3 years than U.S. in 100

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China used more cement between 2011 and 2013 than the United States used in the entire 20th century.
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