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Around noon today, the Senate started voting. It is not expected to stop until well after midnight. The series of roll calls that started as Greenwire was being published will feature votes on whether the federal government should sell off all the land it owns outside of national parks, monuments and preserves and whether Congress should rule out a tax on carbon dioxide emissions.

What does last night's marathon session of amendment votes on the Senate's annual budget resolution foreshadow about the future of energy and environment policy coming out of the upper chamber this year? On today's The Cutting Edge, E&E Daily reporter Nick Juliano, recaps the key votes including measures on U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan, the "Waters of the United States" proposed rule and climate change. Juliano also discusses the political and policy impacts of Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid's (D-Nev.) decision to not seek re-election.

Violence has erupted in a Guatemalan town over the construction of a new hydropower dam whose carbon credits will be tradable under the European Union's emissions trading system.

China's environmental agency has fined two small refineries operated by the state-run China National Chemical Corp. and ordered them to halt production.

A massive power outage spread across Amsterdam today, inconveniencing thousands around the Netherlands' capital.

Children are safe after police rounded up farm animals running wild in Seattle.

Republican state lawmakers in Minnesota yesterday blocked an attempt to debate an oil train safety bill.

The Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority has approved an $884 million 2015-2016 budget for levee and restoration projects, which now must be passed by the Legislature.

The New Jersey General Assembly yesterday laid legislation questioning Gov. Chris Christie's settlement with Exxon Mobil Corp. on the likely Republican presidential candidate's desk.

California's Assembly passed and sent to Gov. Jerry Brown (D) yesterday legislation that would fund $1.1 billion in drought relief.

Monsanto Co. has agreed to pay $600,000 in fines to U.S. EPA for failing to report releases of toxic chemicals at an eastern Idaho phosphate plant.

Men who are exposed to hormone-disrupting chemicals at work for at least 30 years have a higher risk of lymphatic cancer, according to a long-term study by European researchers.

Union Pacific Railroad officials are working to reopen a busy stretch of railway in northern Nevada after a freight train derailment that has shut the track down since Wednesday.

The Food and Drug Administration is working to collect more data from farms on how resilient bacteria evolve to render current antibiotics useless, a scientific director for the agency said this morning.

A mix of materials including wheat-based kitty litter caused a radioactive leak that has shut down a New Mexico nuclear waste site, the Department of Energy said yesterday.

Colorado economists, farmers and tech companies are teaming up to make the state a powerhouse of agriculture innovation.

A Murray Energy company is seeking approval from West Virginia to increase capacity of a coal slurry impoundment in Harrison County.

Two people are unaccounted for following an explosion in Manhattan's East Village yesterday that destroyed three buildings.

The United States must choose between immediately drilling for oil in the Arctic waters off Alaska or revert to relying on imported oil, according to an Energy Department advisory council study to be released today.

Analyses that ascribe reduced greenhouse gas emissions to biofuels assume decreased food consumption, according to a study published today.

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