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HYDRAULIC FRACTURING: Calif. finalizes toughest-in-nation regs

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California finalized some of the nation's toughest regulations for hydraulic fracturing yesterday, as a state agency released a report that fracturing may pose "significant and unavoidable impacts" to air quality, greenhouse gas emissions and public safety.

NUCLEAR: NRC restarts review of Diablo Canyon license renewal

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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced yesterday it plans to seek public comment as it develops an environmental impact statement for the license renewal of California's only operating nuclear power plant.

ELECTRICITY: Marijuana industry may strain Colo. on Clean Power Plan compliance

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Colorado's newly legal marijuana industry is using more electricity, which could sabotage the state's attempt to use less energy and comply with the Clean Power Plan.

BUSINESS: DOJ moves to block sale of GE appliance division to Electrolux

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The Department of Justice sued yesterday in Washington, D.C.'s U.S. District Court to block the merger of General Electric Co. and Electrolux over fears the deal would create a de facto monopoly in the world of home appliances.

RAIL: Amtrak seeks to consolidate injury lawsuits from derailment

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Amtrak has requested that a federal judicial panel consolidate lawsuits regarding the train derailment earlier this year to a single judge in Philadelphia.

FEDERAL AGENCIES: Infamous GSA conference planner gets 3 months in prison

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The former General Services Administration official who was famously caught on video drinking wine in a Las Vegas hot tub on the taxpayer's dime was sentenced to three months in prison Tuesday.

CLIMATE: Okla. challenges Clean Power Plan in new venue

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Oklahoma's attorney general launched a quixotic bid yesterday to pre-empt U.S. EPA's proposed Clean Power Plan, less than a month after courts dismissed a challenge to the draft rule led by West Virginia and Murray Energy Corp. on the grounds it was premature.

COASTAL EROSION: Waves gobbling up northern Alaska at breakneck rate -- study

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Alaska's northern coast is eroding at one of the highest rates in the nation, according to a report published yesterday.

TEXAS: State park system still reeling from May deluge

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The Texas state park system is still recovering from the devastating Memorial Day floods.

FISHERIES: New monitoring rule for bycatch displeases fishermen and enviros

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A new rule to monitor bycatch could have broad implications for East Coast fisheries, angering both environmentalists and fishermen.

ENDANGERED SPECIES: BLM gets more than 200 protests of grouse protection plans

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When Interior Secretary Sally Jewell in May unveiled sweeping federal plans for protecting the greater sage grouse and its dwindling habitat, she hailed them as an "amazing milestone" that showcased an unprecedented collaboration between Western states and federal regulators to save the imperiled bird.

ENERGY POLICY: Young Americans oppose offshore drilling, nuclear power -- survey

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Most young Americans hold strikingly different views than their elders on energy issues, recent polling shows.

WHITE HOUSE: Enviros urge Obama to order disclosure of contractors' political spending

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A coalition of environmental leaders is calling on President Obama to force corporations with federal contracts to disclose their political spending.

CAMPAIGN 2016: Grassley scrutinizing Clinton's uranium ties

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Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is scrutinizing former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's involvement in the approval of a Russian takeover of a uranium mining company with significant U.S. operations.

CAMPAIGN 2016: O'Malley expands energy agenda on swing through Iowa

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Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley expanded on his clean energy agenda today while campaigning through Iowa at events designed to highlight his energy and climate policy.

HOUSE: Energy, Interior-EPA approps, reg reform on tap for July

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The House this month will continue work on the Interior-U.S. EPA fiscal 2016 spending bill while also diving into a broad energy package, drought legislation and a sweeping overhaul of the federal regulatory process before heading home for the August recess, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told lawmakers yesterday.

NATIONAL PARKS: NPS weighs wilderness plan for embattled South Fla. preserve

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The National Park Service is moving forward with a plan to potentially manage as wilderness a third of the land included in the original boundaries of southern Florida's Big Cypress National Preserve.

CLIMATE: EPA cuts heat-trapping refrigerants and coolants

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U.S. EPA finalized a rule today that will phase out the use of heat-trapping hydrofluorocarbons for air conditioning and refrigeration.

ENDANGERED SPECIES: New FWS polar bear plan calls for cutting greenhouse gases

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The Fish and Wildlife Service today said it will start a public comment period next week on its draft plan for averting the extinction of polar bears.

GULF SPILL: BP agrees to 'game changer' $18.7B settlement with states

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The $18.7 billion settlement agreement announced this morning for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill promises to set off an unprecedented effort to repair the Gulf of Mexico's marshes, fisheries and deep sea corals, but it will be, at best, only a first step toward restoring the long-ailing ecosystem, the region's environmentalists say.
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