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DOE: 'Invincible' office manager terrorized staff -- IG

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A Department of Energy office manager cursed at subordinates, tasked them with personal chores, opened their private email and sought to silence detractors.

NOAA: Research ship's pollution violations trigger fleetwide audit

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has commissioned an environmental compliance audit on its entire fleet of research vessels, after an investigation found that one ship "intentionally and repeatedly" discharged oily bilgewater into coastal waters.

ENDANGERED SPECIES: White House takes up hot-button habitat rule

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The White House's regulatory arm this week began reviewing a controversial final rule to redefine the threshold for when projects such as mines, roads, pipelines or drilling harm or destroy critical habitat for threatened and endangered species.

WILDERNESS: Woodsmen wield century-old saws as trails clog

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MOUNT EVANS WILDERNESS, Colo. -- An iconic tool that helped settle the American West, the crosscut saw almost became obsolete with the advent of chainsaws. But now they – and the men and women who wield them -- are the single most important tool for maintaining the Forest Service's roughly 32,000 miles of wilderness trails.

OIL: E&E Daily's Northey talks politics, momentum on export bill

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Members of Congress returned to Washington this week with a clear focus on energy policy. How are efforts to lift the ban on crude oil exports shaping up in the House and Senate? On today's The Cutting Edge, E&E Daily reporter Hannah Northey discusses this week's House vote and the political maneuvering happening on both sides of the Hill on exports.

CALIFORNIA: Chunk of ice from sky crashes through garage roof

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A large piece of ice fell from the sky and into a Modesto, Calif., home Wednesday, causing no injuries but startling everyone inside.

AIR POLLUTION: Houston-area plant accused of excess SO2 pollution

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A Sierra Club study is accusing a Texas coal-fired power plant operator of regularly exceeding federal pollution standards and endangering the health of local residents.

OFFSHORE DRILLING: Worker response blamed in 2013 Gulf blowout -- Interior

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A federal probe into a 2013 well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico found workers could have prevented the incident if they had reacted more quickly.

AIR POLLUTION: Northeastern regulators gird for tighter ozone standard

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Regulators in Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states are preparing for a tighter national ozone standard by taking stock of emissions inventories and modeling compliance scenarios.

COAL: States oppose Patriot reorganization over enviro concerns

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Ohio and Pennsylvania are trying to block court approval of Patriot Coal Corp.'s reorganization plan, saying it doesn't appropriately address the company's responsibilities to clean up mine pollution.

NUCLEAR: San Onofre owner asks to keep settlement deal

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The owner of the shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generation Station asked California regulators yesterday not to reopen a settlement agreement over the plant's closure.

OIL: Prices could hit $20 a barrel -- analysts

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Goldman Sachs Group Inc. analysts say plummeting oil prices won't stop falling anytime soon, and could go as low as $20 a barrel in 2016.

ADVOCACY: Tutu climate change petition heating up

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More than 300,000 people around the world have signed a petition put forward by Archbishop Desmond Tutu demanding a world run on nothing but renewable energy by 2050.

POLITICS: Calif. university system sells off coal, oil sands stock

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California's state university system is selling off its holdings in coal and oil sands companies, leaders said this week, a move fossil fuel divestment activists hailed as a victory.

BUSINESS: Shell leaves British climate lobby over Arctic drilling

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Royal Dutch Shell PLC has left an influential British lobbying group known for pushing the government to act on climate change.

HYDRAULIC FRACTURING: 1st of 2 Texas fracking ban lawsuits dismissed

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A Texas judge has dismissed one of two lawsuits filed against the city of Denton's already-nullified ban on hydraulic fracturing.

WATER POLICY: States renew legal efforts to block WOTUS

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States critical of the Obama administration's controversial water rule aren't giving up on efforts to block its implementation, even after several federal judges have declined to do so.

WEATHER: Strong El Niño all but guaranteed -- NWS

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The National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center said yesterday that an El Niño has a 95 percent chance of lasting through the winter, a pivotal factor as California seeks relief from a fourth straight year of record drought.

SCIENCE: Massive USGS stream study targets future droughts

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The U.S. Geological Survey has launched a massive analysis of stream flows and temperatures in six Western states to aid in the fight against future droughts, as the region's rivers currently sit at historically low levels.

WILDFIRES: Calif. blaze threatens towns, giant sequoias

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Wildfires in central and northern California are causing the evacuation of several towns and forcing firefighters to scramble to save the state's famed sequoia trees.
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