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WATER POLLUTION: Wildlife death toll from Calif. oil spill still growing

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The number of dead wildlife connected with oil spilled three weeks ago from a pipeline in Santa Barbara, Calif., has hit 266.

ENDANGERED SPECIES: Threat of sage grouse listing may have spurred Utah hunting -- study

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The threat of an Endangered Species Act listing may have slightly boosted the number of Utah sportsmen and women hunting sage grouse, researchers found.

ENDANGERED SPECIES: FWS launches 8-state study of 'take' for Midwest wind farms

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The Fish and Wildlife Service yesterday announced it is taking public comment on a sweeping plan that could allow wind farms in eight Midwestern states to kill endangered birds and bats as long as they minimize and mitigate harm to those species.

OIL AND GAS: Industry channels 'Anchorman,' Dr. Evil in Buzzfeed-style fracking site

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Supporters of hydraulic fracturing have launched a BuzzFeed-style website aimed at reframing a controversial issue for a modern digital audience.

ADVOCACY: EPA chief, Sen. Reid will headline annual LCV dinner

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U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy and the Senate's top Democrat will take star turns at the League of Conservation Voters' annual Washington, D.C., dinner later this month, the green group announced today.

DROUGHT: Obama to outline new measures to assist battered West

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With 35 percent of the West gripped by severe to exceptional drought, the Obama administration is today unveiling a suite of actions aimed at helping dislocated workers, supporting farmers and ranches, boosting water management, and combating wildfires.

AIR POLLUTION: House Republican likens EPA ozone rule to eating peas

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House Republicans today fired away at U.S. EPA's air chief, claiming that the agency's proposal to tighten the country's ozone standard is unrealistic and would put a strain on the country's economy.

CLIMATE: Senate Republicans decry 'unnecessary' EPA methane rules

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Republican members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee yesterday wrote to President Obama blasting U.S. EPA's forthcoming curbs on methane leaked from new and modified oil and gas operations, arguing that the effort ignores progress industry is voluntarily making to rein in emissions.

INTERIOR: Vitter demands new IG nominee

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A fierce Senate critic of President Obama's pick to be the Department of the Interior's watchdog is demanding a new nominee for the post.

CAMPAIGN 2016: McKibben presses Clinton on climate but is 'not hugely hopeful'

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Outspoken climate hawk Bill McKibben is out with a second open letter in as many days this morning, this time to Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton.

DOE: Agency draws bipartisan fury over 'alarming record' of mismanagement

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Energy Department officials received a tongue-lashing from bipartisan House Energy and Commerce investigators today for contractor mismanagement, the leak of sensitive information, protester break-ins and the recent radioactive leak at an underground waste storage site in New Mexico.

INTERIOR: Republicans triggered probe of IG nominee by her peers

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Mary Kendall has a tough road ahead before she can be the Department of the Interior's permanent watchdog.

WILDLIFE REFUGES: Floods expose weakness in FWS's oil and gas oversight

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HAGERMAN NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Texas -- Swollen by a month of record rainfall, Lake Texoma inundated dozens of jackpumps, pipelines and other oil and gas infrastructure near the Oklahoma border. Refuge officials who checked production sites on a boat tour last month found trouble at the Blackwell Oil Production well pads in the northern reaches of the refuge. "That's not good for anything," FWS oil and gas specialist Mary Maddux said, squinting at the bubbling, oily water.

CLEAN POWER PLAN: Honorable sees a 'proactive' FERC on Clean Power Plan

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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission should play a "proactive" role in helping states and regions respond to challenges posed by compliance with the forthcoming final version of U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan, Colette Honorable, FERC's newest member, said in a Friday interview.

GEORGIA: Zoo animals roam capital after deadly floods

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Raging floodwaters in the Georgia capital of Tbilisi this weekend killed 12 people and liberated nearly 300 zoo animals.

ALASKA: Bloodsucking fish mysteriously fall from sky

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Bloodsucking fish have been falling from the sky in Fairbanks, Alaska, and nobody is certain why.

ALASKA: Marauding bears strike again after gubernatorial pardon

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The mother black bear and four cubs that raided an Alaskan campsite Friday are likely the same family recently spared by Gov. Bill Walker (I), according to state officials.

OHIO: State mulls plan for strip mine in forest with popular ATV trails

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The Ohio Department of Natural Resources is considering a plan to lease for coal strip mining large parts of a state park popular for its ATV trails.

PESTICIDES: Calif. moves to set spray limits near schools amid reports of heavy use

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Spurred by reports that heavy pesticide use occurs on strawberry fields just steps away from some California public schools, lawmakers are looking at ways to curtail the practice.

DRINKING WATER: L.A. to drain reservoir to build pipeline

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Los Angeles' Department of Water and Power will drain a reservoir this summer so that a new pipeline can be installed beneath it.
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