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CHEMICAL SAFETY: Watchdog warns of risks in CSB's purchase card program

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A program that lets U.S. Chemical Safety Board employees use agency charge cards poses a high risk for illegal, improper or erroneous purchases and payments, U.S. EPA's inspector general warns in a new report.

FEDERAL WORKFORCE: OPM 'has not done enough' since data breach -- union leader

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The head of the nation's largest federal employee union said today that the Office of Personnel Management's response to a massive data breach has been sorely lacking.

UTILITIES: Duke chief gets raise after coal ash spill

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A year after Duke Energy Corp. dealt with a coal ash spill that lined 70 miles of a North Carolina river in sludge, its chief executive is getting a raise.

COAL: Greens warn company about risks of buying N.M. mine

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Environmentalists are warning Westmoreland Coal Co. against buying a northwestern New Mexico coal mine that feeds one of the country's most controversial power plants.

SCIENCE: Clock ticks longer in June with tonight's 'leap second' addition

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Officials tonight will add a so-called leap second to clocks worldwide for the first time in three years.

AGRICULTURE: Scientists urge funding boost for sustainable farming

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More than 300 academics and nonprofit scientists are calling on the Agriculture Department and Congress to increase funding for agroecology, a form of agriculture that seeks to reduce farming's impact on the environment.

MARINE MAMMALS: NMFS proposal lets pipeline developers harass whales, harbor seals

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The National Marine Fisheries Service is proposing to allow the Alaska LNG LLC project to harass beluga whales and harbor seals during its preparation for building a natural gas pipeline across Cook Inlet.

PUBLIC LANDS: Udall, archaeologists push Interior to protect N.M. tribal sites from drilling

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A coalition of archaeologists is ramping up pressure on the Bureau of Land Management to protect Native American tribal sites in northwest New Mexico's Chaco Canyon region from oil and gas development, a day after a top Interior Department official toured the area with Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.).

ENDANGERED SPECIES: Power line group sets guidelines to protect sage grouse

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A partnership of utilities, wildlife agencies and conservationists this week published new guidelines for ensuring power lines do not harm the greater sage grouse.

LOBBYING: Rails-to-Trails Conservancy taps former Senate staffer

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The Rails-to-Trails Conservancy continues to beef up its lobbying efforts with the hiring of a former Senate Environment and Public Works Committee staffer to work on legislation affecting a key federal transportation financing program.

ASBESTOS: Group maps deaths, cancer projections in bid to sway Congress

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Nearly 120,000 Americans in 10 states have died of asbestos-related health conditions between 1999 and 2013, according to data collected by a leading advocacy group.

BLM: House panel questions federal helium sales

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The leaders of the House Natural Resources Committee are raising new concerns over the Bureau of Land Management's implementation of a 2013 law governing federal helium sales, saying the bureau's new auction system may be limiting access to some companies.

CAMPAIGN 2016: Rand Paul meets with Bundy in Nev., courts pot dollars in Colo.

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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) met with controversial Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy during a question-and-answer session on land rights with about 50 supporters in Mesquite, Nev., yesterday.

ADVOCACY: Veteran of Iraq, Afghanistan wars to lead Sierra Club military program

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The Sierra Club has chosen Iraq and Afghanistan war veteran Robert Vessels to lead its Military Outdoors initiative.

CAMPAIGN 2016: Christie jumps into GOP presidential race

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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announced his long-anticipated bid for the Republican presidential nomination today, joining a crowded field of GOP White House hopefuls that now includes several mainstream conservative candidates who have surged past Christie in the polls.

KEYSTONE XL: TransCanada presses Obama admin to decide on pipeline

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TransCanada Corp. is pressing the Obama administration to make a decision on whether to allow the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline to cross from Alberta into the United States.

WATER POLICY: 9 more states sue Obama admin over hot-button rule

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Nine more states today sued the Obama administration over its controversial water rule, bringing the total to 27 states now challenging the effort to expand the number of streams and wetlands that receive automatic protection under the Clean Water Act following two muddled Supreme Court decisions.

ENDANGERED SPECIES: FWS denies calls to reduce gray wolf protections, considers delisting

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The Fish and Wildlife Service today rejected a request -- supported by dozens of animal welfare groups and members of Congress -- to downlist all gray wolves in the Lower 48 from endangered to threatened under the Endangered Species Act instead of ending federal protections for the species altogether.

CLIMATE: U.S., Brazil ramp up renewable goals as China formalizes its pledge

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The Obama administration today committed the United States to triple its non-hydropower renewable energy use by 2030 as part of a broader bilateral agreement with Brazil ahead of this year's high-stakes round of climate talks in Paris.

CLIMATE: Mercury ruling sets up legal 'crapshoot' on Clean Power Plan

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Yesterday's Supreme Court ruling on U.S. EPA’s mercury air standards left one marquee legal question in limbo: how the decision could affect coal companies' first legal challenges to President Obama's forthcoming greenhouse gas limits for power plants.
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