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FEDERAL WORKFORCE: Senior execs leaving government for higher pay -- survey

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The federal government's senior career executives are leaving civil service for higher pay, having grown tired of political attacks, according to a new study.

BIOTECH: Chipotle ends use of GMOs

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Chipotle has removed a controversial ingredient from its burritos: genetically modified organisms.

DROUGHT: Low water levels mean less hydropower in Western states

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The dwindling water levels at Lake Mead could threaten Hoover Dam's ability to generate power, which will force municipalities that rely on the dam to shift to other forms of energy.

WATER POLLUTION: Livestock groups argue that farmers faced injury in CAFO privacy fiasco

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The American Farm Bureau Federation and the National Pork Producers Council have challenged a lower court's finding that operators of concentrated livestock farms were not injured by the release of thousands of pages of their private information.

PROPERTY RIGHTS: Supreme Court won't consider rancher's bid to bar oil drillers

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The Supreme Court today declined to review a rancher's bid to prevent oil development on his Colorado property.

OCEANS: G-7 to push cutting plastics pollution

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The upcoming Group of Seven nations summit will see the issue of plastic pollution on the agenda for the first time, German Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks said.

AGRICULTURE: Dinner plate fate may be only salvation for some livestock breeds

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Foodies could be the only hope for nearly 200 species of domesticated birds and mammals that are nearing extinction.

NATIONAL PARKS: Graffitied landmarks spark outrage

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Wildlife aren't the only things being tagged in national parks these days. Federal officials say graffiti is surging in some parks, blemishing everything from boulders to buildings.

WILDLIFE: Groups urge Japanese PM to end ivory trade ahead of speech to Congress

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An international coalition of 24 conservation groups is calling on Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to ban ivory trading in his country ahead of his historic address to Congress this week.

ENDANGERED SPECIES: Greens sue Forest Service over logging in lynx habitat

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Environmental groups sued the Forest Service last Friday over a decision to allow vegetation management on more than 16,000 acres in northwestern Colorado without fully considering the project's potential impact on the threatened Canada lynx.

FORESTS: Ore. loggers, counties see flaws in BLM timber plans

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The Bureau of Land Management's draft management blueprints for western Oregon forests provide too little timber to sustain area communities, according to logging and county officials.

GRAND CANYON: Comment period starts on road plans for massive development near park

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The Kaibab National Forest late last week announced it is taking public input on proposed road and utility upgrades that would facilitate a major commercial and residential development along the border of Grand Canyon National Park.

CLIMATE: 'Science Guy' unafraid to debate global warming

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Though it's been years since his children's television show last aired on PBS, Bill Nye of "Science Guy" fame has maintained his celebrity scientist status.

URANIUM: Clinton Foundation says undisclosed donations didn't go to general fund

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The Clinton Foundation offered its first response yesterday to allegations that it did not report $2.35 million in contributions linked to the chairman of a uranium company that was seeking government approval to sell a U.S. mine to a Russian firm.

ADVOCACY: Audubon, author spar over group's emphasis on climate change

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Author Jonathan Franzen, an avid bird watcher, took aim at the conservation strategy of the National Audubon Society this month with a story published in The New Yorker.

BIOFUELS: Majority of voters support the RFS -- industry poll

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More than 60 percent of registered voters in the country support the renewable fuel standard, according to a new poll released today by the ethanol industry group Renewable Fuels Association.

EPA: Dems urge Inhofe to yank science bill from markup

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Democrats on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee today called on Chairman James Inhofe (R-Okla.) to withdraw legislation aimed at U.S. EPA's scientific process from a markup tomorrow.

AIR POLLUTION: EPA rolls out more data-gathering park benches

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Solar-powered benches that collect real-time data about air quality will be installed in five new locations around the country by the end of the summer, U.S. EPA said last week.

CLIMATE: States press argument that comment period on EPA rule is 'a sham'

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More than a dozen states Friday said recent remarks from U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy show the agency has already made up its mind about its proposed greenhouse gas standards for existing power plants and reiterated their call for a federal court to block EPA from promulgating the rules.

COAL: Pulitzer shines spotlight on miners' plight

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Composer Julia Wolfe's piece "Anthracite Fields" that won a Pulitzer Prize last week opens with a haunting, "chant like" recitation of the names of turn-of-the-century Pennsylvania coal miners.
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