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ZIMBABWE: Journalists who linked elephant kills to police arrested

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Zimbabwe will charge three journalists with slander after a state-run newspaper published an article linking a high-ranking police officer and other officials to the poisoning of more than 60 elephants for their tusks.

SAUDI ARABIA: Wheat farms disappear as dry nation turns to imports

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Saudi Arabia long grew enough wheat to feed the populations of six neighboring countries even though it faces a shortage of water, but the last farms have recently closed as the country cuts back.

CALIFORNIA: Parched Imperial Valley farmers fear drought's impact

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About 500 farms in California's Imperial Valley have access to 3.1 million acre-feet of water from the Colorado River, a massive amount comparable to a third of the water used by 37 million people in the state's large cities.

MICHIGAN: Flint ousts mayor after water crisis

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Voters in Flint, Mich., elected a new mayor as incumbent Dayne Walling suffered from his handling of the city's drinking water crisis.

MARYLAND: Democrats put smog rule on hold

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Maryland state House Democrats put a hold on Republican Gov. Larry Hogan's plans to loosen smog regulations instituted by his predecessor, Martin O'Malley, a current Democratic presidential candidate.

RAIL: Industry scrapped safety technology decades ago over cost

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Technology to help railroads prevent collisions was available decades ago but piqued little interest from the industry.

AUTOS: Volkswagen admits to lowballing CO2 emissions on gas models

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Volkswagen AG understated emissions of carbon dioxide that it reported to European regulators, presenting the latest legal challenge for the embattled automaker.

COAL: EPA to rethink approval of Ky. selenium standards

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U.S. EPA is promising to reconsider its approval of Kentucky's standards for protecting waterways from a chemical element closely linked with mountaintop-removal coal mining.

RARE EARTHS: Molycorp would sell Mountain Pass mine under bankruptcy plan

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Rare earths mining firm Molycorp Inc. has filed a "dual-track" bankruptcy restructuring plan that it said could lead to a reorganization or a divestment of its assets.

PEOPLE: DOE scientist elected president of American Chemical Society

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An official at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will take the reins of the nonprofit American Chemical Society.

NUCLEAR WASTE: Watchdog group sues over buried fuel at San Onofre

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A watchdog group has sued a California agency over its approval of a plan to bury 1,800 tons of radioactive waste from the closed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in containers near the coast.

TECHNOLOGY: DOE-backed research could lower solar power costs

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A "thermochemical" method for storing heat so that renewable electricity can be harnessed on demand holds promise for lowering the costs of concentrated solar power, according to new research funded by the Department of Energy.

OIL AND GAS: Exxon climate cover-up fell through cracks at NPR -- watchdog

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NPR's executive editor said her news organization dropped the ball by failing to report on rival media outlet's coverage of Exxon Mobil Corp.'s manufacturing doubt about climate change despite nearly four decades of their own research indicating it could become a problem, according to NPR's ombudsman.

OIL AND GAS: Gore calls for probe of Exxon's alleged climate cover-up

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Exxon Mobil Corp. misled the public about climate change for almost four decades, former Vice President Al Gore said yesterday, joining Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in calling for an investigation.

AIR POLLUTION: Copper smelter to spend millions on upgrades in EPA settlement

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The owner of a southern Arizona copper smelter will pay a $4.5 million fine and spend about $150 million on new equipment and air pollution control technology in the next few years after a U.S. EPA investigation found the company failed to control emissions of arsenic and other hazardous materials.

BRISTOL BAY: Groups petition for probe of Pebble developer

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The company trying to develop the Pebble mine in Alaska's Bristol Bay has left oil spills, equipment and improperly capped drilling holes, opponents allege.

ENDANGERED SPECIES: Hunters kill 2 grizzlies

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Hunters reported shooting two grizzly bears in self-defense last week in separate incidents in southwestern Montana.

NATIONAL FORESTS: Companies renew interest in fracking Ohio's Wayne forest

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Oil and gas companies have formally renewed their interest in drilling for natural gas in an Ohio national forest, a proposal that was abandoned by federal officials four years ago after outrage from environmentalists and local residents.

NATIONAL PARKS: Yellowstone grapples with record visitors, traffic

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Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Dan Wenk said record visitation is coming with traffic jams and long lines for the iconic park ahead of the National Park Service's centennial next year.

GULF OF MEXICO: Dolphins had trouble reproducing after BP spill -- study

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Dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico suffered from reproductive problems in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, according to the latest study linking the spill to health problems in common bottlenose dolphins.
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