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BIOFUELS: Battelle touts milestone in developing oil-treatment catalyst

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Research-and-development nonprofit Battelle Memorial Institute says it's making headway on technology to convert non-food plants into oil that can be upgraded into fuel.

OFFSHORE DRILLING: Marshall Islands may stop registering oil rigs on climate concerns

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Climate change is prompting the Marshall Islands to reconsider its practice of registering oil rigs.

BIOFUELS: Analysts weigh alt-fuel developers' ability to weather cheap oil

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Biofuel producers vary in their ability to weather cheap oil prices, according to a report released yesterday by Lux Research.

INVASIVE SPECIES: Utah farmers, ladybugs overrun by aphids

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Ladybugs typically win the war against aphids in central Utah's farm fields, feasting on swarms of the invasive insects before they can, in turn, devour alfalfa and wheat crops.

OCEANS: Film showcases Curaçao's plans to save reefs

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A new documentary film lays out how the Caribbean island of Curaçao is planning to rescue the coral reefs that surround it.

NATIONAL PARKS: New Navajo president does about-face on Grand Canyon tram

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Newly inaugurated Navajo President Russell Begaye didn't actually read the document he signed at his inauguration ceremony that said he planned to develop a controversial aerial tram at the Grand Canyon, a spokesman said yesterday.

FISHERIES: Hotter water near logging prompts push for new regs

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Environmentalists and the fishing industry are calling on Oregon's Board of Forestry to expand buffer zones around streams in light of a recent study indicating elevated water temperatures detrimental to fish near logging activity.

WILDLIFE: Feds OK killing of 1.6M migratory birds since 2011 -- report

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Federal permits sanctioned the killing of 1.6 million migratory birds between 2011 and 2014, according to Fish and Wildlife Service data obtained by the Center for Investigative Reporting.

ENDANGERED SPECIES: Group pushes for 'in danger' habitat listing for rare porpoise

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The Center for Biological Diversity wants the World Heritage Committee to designate the habitat of a rare porpoise as "in danger," submitting a petition yesterday outlining the species' precarious position.

NATIONAL PARKS: Bus tour contract draws scrutiny from Capitol Hill

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Members of Congress are questioning the National Park Service's choice of company to run bus tours on the National Mall.

ENERGY MARKETS: House Ag Committee sends CFTC reauthorization to floor

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The House Agriculture Committee agreed by voice vote this morning to send a bill to the floor to reauthorize the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

COAL: Health impacts of mountaintop mining spark fireworks

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A House panel today engaged in a sometimes-heated debate over the merits of new scientific research on the impacts of mountaintop-removal coal mining.

APPROPRIATIONS: House subpanel easily approves bill cutting NOAA's budget

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A spending bill that would cut $274 million from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's budget cleared its first hurdle today, easily passing a House Appropriations subpanel.

TRANSPORTATION: Senate Dems urge boost in infrastructure funds 'to save lives'

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Republicans are endangering the safety of public roads, bridges and railroads with continued cuts to the nation's "ailing" transportation infrastructure, especially in the wake of Tuesday's Amtrak crash outside Philadelphia that killed seven people, Democratic senators charged today.

CAMPAIGN 2016: Feingold launches comeback bid, touts 'desire to serve'

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Former Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) made it official today: He plans to seek a rematch with the man who knocked him off in 2010, now-Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.).

CAMPAIGN 2015: Ky. GOP primary in dead heat; voters back climate science

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Less than a week remains before Kentucky voters head to the polls to set the slate for this year's gubernatorial contest, but no clear front-runner has emerged for the GOP nomination, leaving a trio of Republican contenders in a statistical dead heat, according to a new poll.

MARIJUANA: Pot rally on National Mall angers House watchdogs

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Lawmakers have begun to probe how the National Park Service responded to a pro-marijuana rally on the National Mall last month.

GRID: FERC shrugs off protests to tackle solar storms, reliability

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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission moved today to address rare but damaging solar storms and challenges facing new transmission lines as activists angry about the agency's handling of gas projects chanted outside the meeting room.

NUCLEAR: Industry 'dead wrong' to back Obama's climate regs -- Inhofe

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Climate change regulations may look like a good deal for the nuclear industry, but they mask the Obama administration's broader assault on all conventional sources of energy, Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman James Inhofe said today.

AIR POLLUTION: Strong opinions, shaky data in arguments over permitting

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The federal process for reviewing new air pollution permits is routinely hit by complaints about it stifling a U.S. manufacturing renaissance. But a Greenwire review of state and federal data has found it nearly impossible to determine whether the delivery of permits is being unduly delayed.
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