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The White House is hosting a roundtable with investors, transportation officials, policy experts and nonprofits today to promote more private company involvement in hardening the United States' infrastructure against the effects of climate change.

Senate Democratic leaders are angling to hold up pending bipartisan trade legislation until Congress acts on a long-term reauthorization of transportation programs that are set to expire this month.

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito picked up the baton today on "just say no" legislation, announcing in a hearing of the Senate Environment and Public Works subcommittee she chairs that she will introduce a bill next week to allow states to opt out of U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan.

The small town of Woodville, Ala., may not use much electricity for its population of 741 people, but now it is using 25 percent less -- an effort that has won it top honors in the 2014 U.S. EPA National Building Competition, the agency announced today.

There is a 90 percent chance the Forest Service will run out of money to fight wildfires this summer and will have to transfer funding from other programs to cover the shortfall, the agency's chief told senators this morning.

Suzette Kimball's style suits the federal agency she leads: stately, if a little dry.

A preschooler could count the number of women at most energy conferences. Or they could let "Sesame Street's" Count von Count's take inventory: "One, one woman. Two, two women. Three, three dedicated daughters. ... Three plus one more is four. Four, four fierce females." Dawn White, the president, co-founder and chief technology officer of Accio Energy Inc., an offshore wind startup, concedes the energy industry hasn't been a big draw for women. "Energy ... is such a 'go big or go home' business," she said. "It still feels very much of a man's world." But that's changing.

How are lawmakers responding to last week's rollout of the Department of Transportation's final rulemaking on crude-by-rail safety? During today's OnPoint, James Rubin, counsel in Dentons' global energy sector, discusses the politics of the plan and gives his expectations for subsequent rules. He also weighs in on the rule's legal defensibility.

A koala casually wandered through an Australian emergency room last month.

Greenpeace India said the Indian government is trying to strangle it, freezing its bank accounts and leaving it with so few funds that it will have to shut its doors.

China's anti-pollution policies are being put to the test by a lawsuit filed by residents of a Chinese town who say a local chemical plant is responsible for high lead levels in their children's blood.

A snorkeler came across two skeletons Monday tied to lawn chairs 40 feet beneath the surface of the Colorado River near the Arizona and California border.

Efforts to attract more wind farms to Nebraska stalled in the state Senate yesterday after conservative lawmakers mounted a filibuster.

Voters didn't heed the warning of Gov. Rick Snyder (R) yesterday, defeating a tax increase that would have raised $1.2 billion more per year to fix Michigan's dilapidated roads.

U.S. EPA is keeping a watchful eye on two fast-moving bills in the Texas Legislature that are seeking to expedite environmental permitting.

California regulators are facing industry criticism over the proposed listing of styrene -- one of the largest volume chemicals produced in the United States -- among materials known to cause cancer or reproductive harm.

The town of Heimdal, N.D., was evacuated today after an oil train derailed and caught fire.

U.S. EPA is expressing strong concerns about the water quality impacts of the proposed Rosemont copper mine roughly 30 miles south of Tucson, Ariz.

Industry organizations are quietly raising concerns that a U.S. EPA draft science review overstates the negative health impacts of exposure to nitrogen dioxide, a pollutant emitted by vehicles, power plants and other industrial operations.

With late spring temperatures rising and harmful algae blooms soon to pop up in waterways around the country, U.S. EPA today issued its first health advisory values for a pair of algal toxins, which can guide states and drinking water utilities in determining whether their water supplies are safe for consumption.

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