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As California faces historic drought conditions, California Water Commissioner Anthony Saracino stepped down this week amid controversy. On today's The Cutting Edge, Greenwire reporter Debra Kahn discusses her interview with Saracino and explains how his departure will affect the commission. She also talks about the innovative options California is considering to address the drought.

A dozen people were injured yesterday as long-running protests over a copper mining project in southern Peru intensified.

The Louisiana House passed legislation that would create a committee to study lifting the current moratorium on new private leases for oyster harvesting.

St. Paul, Minn., firefighter Chris Parsons is being credited with helping to craft what could be the most restrictive flame-retardant regulation in the country.

U.S. EPA has approved a vintage coal-fired ferry for use on Lake Michigan for another season.

U.S. EPA will release risk assessments this summer for the herbicide glyphosate, an agency official said yesterday.

U.S. EPA has cited a hazardous waste incinerator in Ohio for releasing high levels of toxic chemicals into the air.

After years of oil drilling in North Dakota without a hitch, energy companies are taking heat for recent brine wastewater spills.

The Department of Energy has added a former aide to Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) to its public affairs shop.

A cracked pipe feeding into a reactor at the Columbia Generating Station in Richmond, Wash., has caught the attention of anti-nuclear groups that want to prevent the plant from coming back online.

A southeast Iowa landowner says an agent for the proposed Bakken Pipeline offered to get him an 18-year-old prostitute if he would grant the pipeline access to his property.

Leaders of eight Native American tribes and a Canadian First Nation tribe are asking the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to deny a key permit for the largest coal export terminal proposed in the Pacific Northwest.

U.S. EPA and developers of the Pebble copper and gold mine told a federal judge in Alaska yesterday not to delay consideration of a key lawsuit concerning the agency's proposed limits on the project.

The Perth Zoo in Australia had a problem figuring out what to feed its numbats, a common problem worldwide when it comes to feeding animals in captivity.

Police in Mozambique, a poaching hotbed, found 1.4 tons of ivory and rhino horns in a house belonging to a Chinese national.

South Florida water managers struck down a plan to buy 46,800 acres for Everglades restoration, despite environmentalists' rallying musician Jimmy Buffett to their cause.

One of the largest tribal coalitions in North America is gearing up to fight expected action from the Fish and Wildlife Service to remove federal protections from grizzly bears living in and around Yellowstone National Park.

International sanctions responding to the Ukraine conflict have spurred the Kremlin and Big Oil alike into action, with both groups spending big to prevent the measures from affecting energy interests.

Former Rep. Baron Hill announced that he will vie for Indiana's open Senate seat this cycle, becoming the first Democrat to wade into the race as the party looks to flip the seat from Republican control.

House Republicans today urged the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to reopen the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, ratcheting up pressure on the Obama administration to revisit its decision to shut down the site.

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