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UTILITIES: Watchdog urges regulators to scrap Duke-Progress merger

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North Carolina regulators failed to consider skyrocketing costs for fixing aging reactors when they approved the Duke-Progress merger last year, so the agreement should be scrapped or changed, a watchdog…

NUCLEAR POWER: Fire shuts down Texas reactor

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A fire at a Texas nuclear power plant located 90 miles southwest of Houston shut down a reactor yesterday afternoon. The blaze began at the South Texas Project Electric Generating…

NUCLEAR POWER: New contractor will manage DOE weapons labs in Texas, Tenn.

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Nuclear weapons facilities in Texas and Tennessee will be managed by a group of contractors headed by Bechtel National Inc. and Lockheed Martin Corp., the National Nuclear Security Administration said…

OIL AND GAS: Pilot who crashed tanker into bridge has history of accidents

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The pilot who crashed an empty oil tanker into a tower of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge this week has a history of accidents, an investigation into the incident has…

GRAND CANYON: Judge allows industry challenge to Obama admin's mining limits

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A federal judge in Arizona ruled yesterday to allow challenges to go forward against the Obama administration's ban on new mining claims on roughly 1 million acres around Grand Canyon…

WILDLIFE: Siberia struggles to cope with burgeoning wolf population

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As wolf packs encroach on settlements in the Sakha-Yakutia region of Siberia, Russia, officials there are calling for a reduction in their numbers. The Yakutia governor declared a state of…

ENDANGERED SPECIES: Groups sue government to force more turtle protections

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Environmentalists yesterday filed suit against the federal government for not providing more protection for loggerhead sea turtles. According to the lawsuit, the endangered species is close to extinction because the…

ENDANGERED SPECIES: Court order effectively ends Mont. wolverine-trapping season

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An extension of a court injunction this week essentially ended Montana's wolverine-trapping season. District Judge Jeffrey Sherlock issued the temporary injunction against the killings at the end of November, when…

OCEANS: Great white sharks may need endangered species protection -- report

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California regulators should review whether great white sharks, the predator made infamous by the movie "Jaws," deserve state endangered species protections, state fish and wildlife officials told the California Fish…

NATIONAL PARKS: New Yosemite management plan wouldn't limit visitors

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A National Park Service proposal released yesterday would add more campsites and parking spaces to Yosemite National Park but wouldn't reduce the number of daily visitors. The plan would restore…

INTERIOR: BOEM's Beaudreau named acting assistant secretary for land and minerals

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The Interior Department's top official in charge of offshore energy leasing has been picked to serve as the agency's acting assistant secretary for land and minerals management, a post that…

ENERGY POLICY: Liberal group gives Obama high first-term grades

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President Obama achieved most of the energy and environmental policy goals activists set out for his first term, and unfinished business was largely the fault of inaction by Congress, a…

CAMPAIGN 2013: Democrats begin to size up crowded field to replace ex-Rep. Jackson

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Crowded might be an understatement when it comes to the looming special primaries to replace ex-Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) in the Chicago-area 2nd District. Nearly two dozen candidates --…

AGRICULTURE: Rural energy programs in limbo under farm bill deal

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Rural energy advocates are worried that the short-term decrease in funding this year in the partial farm bill extension will have long-term effects on the markets for renewable energy and…

ARCTIC: Shell's 2012 drilling season comes under heightened federal scrutiny

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Royal Dutch Shell PLC's Arctic drilling program has become the subject of multiple federal investigations, days after the company towed its grounded drillship Kulluk to safe harbor in Alaska. The…

EPA: Jackson urges state action on climate, is coy about her future

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Outgoing U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson expressed frustration with the partisan warfare in Washington, D.C., and urged action on climate change at the state and local…

APPROPRIATIONS: White House expected to unveil 2014 budget late -- but does it matter?

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The Obama administration is expected to unveil its fiscal 2014 budget request later than usual this year -- in late February or March -- another sign of the uncertain fiscal…

NEWSMAKER: Calif. billionaire might be the next big name in U.S. energy politics

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SAN FRANCISCO -- A California billionaire seen as a likely star in U.S. energy politics has stepped down from his role as a hedge fund manager to devote more time to a clean power "revolution." Several predict the effects will be sizable, including possibly a nomination to the Department of Energy's top spot.

POLICY: Norton, Schafer discuss conservative effort on environmentalism

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How would a bottom-up approach to environment policy help engage conservatives and promote the conservative environmental agenda? During today's OnPoint, Ed Schafer, former secretary of Agriculture and former governor of…

ICELAND: Nation mulls plan to send geothermal energy to U.K. via subsea cable

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Iceland is considering an idea that could boost its economy and provide renewable power to Britain. The Icelandic government is mulling construction of what would be the world's longest subsea…
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