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BIOFUELS: Report says Poet added $5.4B to GDP

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Ethanol giant Poet LLC has added $5.4 billion to the national gross domestic product and supports nearly 40,000 direct and indirect jobs, according to a report commissioned by the company.

ENERGY MARKETS: CFTC commissioner resigns

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Commodity Futures Trading Commissioner Mark Wetjen will leave his post at the end of the month, the agency announced today.

SOLAR POWER: Navy makes largest ever federal renewable purchase

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The Navy will set the record next week for the largest renewable energy purchase by a federal entity.

CALIFORNIA: Drought, heavy rain strained tree that fell on kids

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An 85-foot pine tree that fell over and injured children in Pasadena, Calif., last month was under stress from the prolonged drought but gave way from a burst of heavy rain, an arborist hired by the city has found.

TECHNOLOGY: Brewery funds water-saving innovations

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St. Louis' Shock Top Brewing Co. is partnering with California water conservationists to fund a new water-saving technology each month of the next year.

FISHERIES: Trout hauled to cooler lakes as temperatures spike

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Workers scooped up about 80,000 pounds of trout in California's Central Valley yesterday and hauled the fish 30 miles uphill to cooler water.

NATURAL GAS: FERC judge finds BP manipulated markets

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BP PLC may face millions of dollars in fines and surrendered profits after a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission judge found yesterday it manipulated natural gas markets in Texas in 2008.

OCEANS: Downed plane parts add to debris fouling seas

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The parts of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 found this month on the island of Reunion near Africa were a small component of the million tons of debris being churned around by Earth's oceans.

SALMON: Fish die as Alaska bakes

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Warming temperatures and low river levels are to blame for salmon die-offs in Alaska's Matanuska and Susitna valleys.

MARINE MAMMALS: SeaWorld sinks $1.5M into orca conservation

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SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. pledged $1.5 million to marine conservation yesterday as it continues to battle animal abuse allegations in the wake of the 2013 documentary "Blackfish."

WILDLIFE: Drones bother animals -- study

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Unmanned aerial vehicles flying overhead raised the heart rates of bears in a study published yesterday in the journal Current Biology, raising concerns about the increasing interactions between drones and wildlife.

YELLOWSTONE: Killer grizzly's cubs bound for Toledo

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An Ohio zoo is taking the two orphaned cubs of a grizzly bear euthanized after killing a hiker in Yellowstone National Park.

RENEWABLE ENERGY: Small turbines get second wind from climate regs

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Bergey Windpower Co. -- the world's oldest manufacturer of residential-size turbines -- almost bit the dust in 1986.

YUCCA MOUNTAIN: Repository would have 'small' impact on groundwater -- NRC

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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has determined that storing spent reactor fuel in a waste repository under Yucca Mountain in Nevada would have minimal effects on the surrounding groundwater that ends up in Death Valley.

WILDFIRE: Wind-whipped inferno torches 256K acres of grouse habitat

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A wildfire in southwest Idaho has grown rapidly this week, burning more than 256,000 acres of sage grouse habitat and causing a "tragic impact" on local ranching communities, according to federal responders.

CLEAN POWER PLAN: New lawsuit's goal: Secure right-leaning judicial panel

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Yesterday's bid by 15 states asking a federal court to block U.S. EPA's landmark Clean Power Plan contained little new information about their objections to the rule. But it did illuminate a key aspect of their legal strategy: retaining the same three Republican-appointed judges who considered an earlier, premature challenge to the regulations before they were finalized.

CLEAN POWER PLAN: States aim for conservative judges to hear challenge

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A federal court bid last week by 15 states to block U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan offered few new arguments but illuminated a key legal strategy: retaining the same three Republican-appointed judges who considered an earlier, premature challenge to the regulation.

SCOTLAND: 'No take' zone deemed a success

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The first "no-take" fishing zone in Scottish history has been a successful initiative.

JAPAN: Legal woes stack up for TEPCO

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As Japan moves to restart nuclear power generation, the operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant that melted down in 2011 is facing mounting legal challenges.

SWEDEN: Wolf dispute draws E.U. probe

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Some Swedish farmers say they are under siege as a resurgent wolf population -- now a protected species -- threatens their cattle.
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