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BUSINESS: New tool gauges impact of 'high carbon' investments

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Climate activists today released a tool to calculate the financial impacts of investing and divesting in fossil fuel companies.

CLEAN POWER PLAN: EPA to host bioenergy workshop

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U.S. EPA will host a workshop early next year to discuss how states can address bioenergy in the Clean Power Plan.

WHITE HOUSE: Deese visits Canada to talk climate, energy ahead of Paris

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President Obama's top climate adviser is in Ottawa, Canada, today to meet with leaders from new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government, the White House announced today.

CALIFORNIA: Gov. Brown orders action to collect El Niño stormwater

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California officials must work with local agencies to expedite temporary projects to capture water this winter if El Niño storms bring heavy rains, Gov. Jerry Brown (D) said Friday in an executive order.

GULF SPILL: Supreme Court rejects BP damages case

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The Supreme Court today refused to hear an appeal from nine claimants seeking damages from BP in the wake of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

UTILITIES: Power giant sentenced in bribery case

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The French power and transportation company Alstom SA was sentenced to pay $772 million in what the Justice Department called the biggest-ever criminal foreign bribery fine.

ARCTIC: Enviros, Inuits use film to push for marine conservation area

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The environmental group Oceans North Canada will work with Inuit artists to make a short film to argue for the creation of a marine conservation area in the Canadian Arctic.

WILDLIFE: Cougar populations recover in Midwest

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Cougar numbers are recovering in the Midwest, according to a new study, but the animal is unlikely to fully regain its former range anytime soon.

OCEANS: Glacial runoff kills Antarctic creatures -- research

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A study published Friday suggests glacial runoff, which carries sediment into the ocean in the form of silt or clay particles, could be affecting Antarctic ecosystems.

NATIONAL PARKS: Isle Royale risks losing wolves as feds study options

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Wolf advocates are demanding federal action to save a tiny pack on a remote Michigan island national park in the middle of Lake Superior.

WILDLIFE: Eviction looms for rare white deer as Army depot cleanup ends

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Conservationists have launched a fundraising drive to buy part of a section of acreage surrounding a former Cold War weapons depot in western New York, home to the world's largest known population of rare white deer.

OCEANS: Estuary acidification harms N.C. crabs, oysters

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The estuaries of eastern North Carolina are being affected by acidification, an infamous and growing issue in the world's oceans.

ENDANGERED SPECIES: Chimp export application tests new laws

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Five months after the Fish and Wildlife Service moved to extend endangered species status to captive chimpanzees, a permit application by a Georgia research center will test the implications of the new rule.

ENDANGERED SPECIES: Sage grouse protections stymie new middle school

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A Nevada middle school is at the center of the latest legal challenge to new protections for the imperiled greater sage grouse set to go before a federal judge today.

COAL: Groups clash with Wyo. over Alpha bonding

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A Wyoming-based conservation group is moving to block state regulators from allowing bankrupt coal company Alpha Natural Resources Inc. to continue operations at its Eagle Butte mine, one of the largest in the country.

PESTICIDES: EPA cancels registration of bee-killing chemical

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U.S. EPA announced last week it had cancelled the registration of a contentious chemical linked to declining populations of bees and other pollinators.

TRANSPORTATION: House set to vote on 2-week stopgap funding bill

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The House could vote tonight on a short-term extension to the Highway Trust Fund that aims to give congressional negotiators more time to nail down a longer-term reauthorization.

CLIMATE: House Democrats to hold climate forum ahead of Paris

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House Democrats on Thursday will host foreign dignitaries for a forum on international climate cooperation ahead of the key U.N. conference that starts in Paris at the end of the month.

CLEAN POWER PLAN: Climate regs squeeze Mont. Gov. Bullock, other Dems

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Montana Gov. Steve Bullock (D) is arguably the Democratic governor in the toughest spot as he tries to comply with the Clean Power Plan without harming his state's economy.

LOBBYING: Former Boehner aides register for oil and gas company

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Former aides to recently retired House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) are now lobbying for one of the country's biggest oil and gas companies.
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