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SALMON: Tribes call for Klamath water release to save fish

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Two American Indian tribes are calling on the Bureau of Reclamation to increase the Klamath River's flow to save salmon from a deadly disease spurred by drought conditions up and down the West Coast.

EDUCATION: Drought-caused exodus puts Head Start centers in limbo

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In Five Points, Calif., a dusty stretch of Fresno County that is among the areas hardest hit by the state's drought, so many people are leaving town that needed services are on the cusp of shutting down for the people left behind.

NATIONAL PARKS: Olympic bans recreational fishing as drought takes hold

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The National Park Service today closed recreational fishing on most rivers and streams in Olympic National Park as historic drought conditions have brought low water levels and elevated water temperatures.

WILDLIFE: Regulators probe heron deaths at oil sands site

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Alberta officials are investigating the deaths of 30 blue herons at an oil sands site.

ENDANGERED SPECIES: Police kill 6 accused tiger poachers in mangrove gunfight

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Bangladeshi police reportedly killed six suspected tiger poachers during a gunfight at a hideout in the world's largest mangrove forest.

NATIONAL PARKS: Grizzly apparently kills Yellowstone hiker

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A Montana man was apparently mauled by a grizzly bear Friday in Yellowstone National Park, according to the National Park Service.

WILDLIFE: Zimbabwe eases post-Cecil hunting ban

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Zimbabwe's nationwide ban on big-game hunting, implemented after the killing of Cecil the lion, was lifted today, according to media reports.

CAMPAIGN 2016: Clinton ditches coal-mining roots as her rhetoric shifts

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After relying heavily on her biography as the great-granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner to cast herself as a pro-coal Democrat in 2008, Hillary Clinton is increasingly talking about the industry in the past tense.

KEYSTONE XL: TransCanada mulls options as pipeline decision looms

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TransCanada Corp., the Canadian company behind the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, is working on a next move as the White House signals both privately and publicly a rejection of the project's permit is imminent, according to a source close to the deal.

CAMPAIGN 2016: Kasich's 'not proven' climate comments stir controversy

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Republican presidential hopeful John Kasich this weekend raised concerns among some climate activists by suggesting climate change is an unproven theory that shouldn't be used to destroy jobs.

WIND: Tax-credit uncertainty casts pall over industry boom -- DOE

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Higher towers and larger turbines propelled the United States to "all-time low" wind power prices and world-leading wind production numbers last year, but that won't be enough to overcome the loss of federal tax incentives, the Department of Energy said today in its annual wind market report.

PUBLIC LANDS: Burning Man will burn after BLM spat resolved

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All the "Burners" out there can rest easy -- this summer's Burning Man desert festival has been greenlighted by federal officials.

WATER POLLUTION: EPA spill in Colo. river 3 times larger than first thought

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U.S. EPA believes a spill it inadvertently caused led to nearly 3 million gallons of rust-colored wastewater entering a creek that feeds Colorado's Animas River, a threefold increase from initial estimates last week, an agency official said yesterday.

FISHERIES: Technology buoys fishermen devastated by cod's collapse

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NEWBURYPORT, Mass. -- New England fishermen are struggling to make ends meet in the wake of the cod fishery's catastrophic crash. Consider Captain Jim Ford. He once netted as much as $15,000 a day catching cod, but he's lucky now to get $1,500 targeting flounder. From that, he must pay his two-man crew and buy fuel. And it doesn't end there. Federal regulators want groundfish fishermen to pay starting next year for on-boat observers whose tab could hit $800 a day. "I'll tie the boat up before I pay for an observer," Ford said. Could technology offer another option?

NUCLEAR: NEI's Fertel talks industry growth following power plan changes

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Are changes to how existing and new nuclear are treated in the final Clean Power Plan a win for the industry? During today's OnPoint, Marv Fertel, president of the Nuclear Energy Institute, discusses the impacts of U.S. EPA's action on nuclear and explains what the agency missed in the rule with respect to his industry.

AUSTRALIA: Government should bring Tasmanian devils back to mainland -- study

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Reintroducing Tasmanian devils to the Australian mainland would help native wildlife by cutting down on the spread of feral cats and foxes, a study says.

CANADA: Enviros urge ministry against easing dispersant standards

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Environmental groups are asking Canada's government not to loosen rules on an oil spill dispersant amid questions about its ecological impact.

BRAZIL: U.S. rowers get sick in Olympic waters

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Thirteen of 40 U.S. team members fell ill at the World Rowing Junior Championships, a test event that took place in the same waters where the Olympics will occur next year.

MONTANA: Former chief of wolf program to lead sage grouse effort

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The former head of Montana's wolf-management program will now lead the state's Sage Grouse Habitat Conservation Program.

TOXICS: House chamber reopens after asbestos scare

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The U.S. Capitol building's House chamber is set to reopen today after being shut down yesterday when construction workers found an unknown substance behind one of the walls that workers worried may have been asbestos or some other harmful material.
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