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COAL: L.A. City Council OKs power plant conversion plan

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The Los Angeles City Council yesterday approved a proposal that would help the city stop using coal to generate its electricity. The 12-0 vote will allow Utah's Intermountain Power Project…

OFFSHORE DRILLING: Interior sets August lease of 21M acres in western Gulf

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The Interior Department today announced it will auction 21 million acres of the western Gulf of Mexico this summer for oil and gas development, the third of roughly a dozen…

GULF SPILL: Anadarko seeks dismissal of investor lawsuit as cities sue BP

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Anadarko Petroleum Corp., a partner in the ill-fated BP PLC well that was the source of the largest offshore spill in U.S. history, plans to ask a federal judge in…

OCEANS: Marine biologist pleads guilty to feeding orcas

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A marine biologist yesterday pleaded guilty to charges of illegally feeding killer whales in a California sanctuary. In 2004, Nancy Black hauled the blubber of a dead gray whale onto…

WATER POLLUTION: After Supreme Court loss, enviros try again on logging road runoff

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Environmentalists are wasting little time in renewing their fight for stronger regulation of stormwater that runs off logging roads in the Pacific Northwest, despite losing a Supreme Court case last…

OFFSHORE DRILLING: Judges uphold EPA air permits for Shell's Alaska operations

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Federal appeals court judges yesterday denied an environmental group's challenge to U.S. EPA air permits for Royal Dutch Shell PLC's offshore drilling operations in Alaska. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court…

COAL: Activists protest reef destruction by taking over ship

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Six Greenpeace activists today sneaked onto a coal ship to protest the possible expansion of the Australian coal industry and the impact that expansion would have on the Great Barrier…

WILDLIFE: U.N. urges action on poaching

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Increasing Asian demand for ivory and rhino horns as gifts and various unsubstantiated medical cures is fueling a spike in poaching, international officials said yesterday, asking for stricter penalties for…

WILDLIFE: USPS irks animal rights groups with plan to ease live-animal-shipping rules

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The U.S. Postal Service has proposed a rule that could increase the amount of squawking in the mailroom -- and among animal rights groups. The proposal, published in the Federal…

WILDFIRES: Federal money on the way to help Colo. recover from devastating blazes

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The Agriculture Department's Natural Resources Conservation Service is set in the coming weeks to allocate nearly $20 million to help Colorado protect vulnerable watersheds in areas scorched by last summer's…

EARTHQUAKES: Calif. aims to add early warning system

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A warning system that would alert Californians seconds before an earthquake strikes moved closer to reality yesterday. Legislation requiring the development of such a network passed unanimously out of the…

PUBLIC LANDS: Air pollution poses threat to national monument in Sierra Nevada -- study

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Pollution from wildfires, farms and factories in northern and central California is fouling the air and possibly weakening trees at a national monument in the Sierra Nevada, according to a…

BRISTOL BAY: Revised watershed assessment likely to be released in May

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U.S. EPA acting Administrator Bob Perciasepe today said the agency's revised draft assessment of large-scale mining in Alaska's Bristol Bay watershed likely will come out in May. Opponents of the…

NATIONAL PARKS: Feinstein floats bill to add acres to Yosemite

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The size of California's Yosemite National Park would increase by 1,575 acres under a bill introduced yesterday by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.). The expansion would bring two separate parcels of…

HYDRO: Western governors, water council urge passage of bicameral bills

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The bipartisan Western Governors' Association and the Western States Water Council are throwing their support behind legislation that would streamline a costly, complicated permitting process for small hydroelectric projects. "Our…

NATURAL RESOURCES: Senate ENR floats helium bill

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Leaders of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee yesterday introduced legislation aimed at preventing a helium shortage by enabling the secretary of the Interior to continue selling crude helium…

FORESTS: Sportsmen, wildlife groups urge committee to reject Murkowski's Tongass bill

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A coalition of nearly 20 sportsmen and wildlife groups urged leaders of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee to reject a bill that would allow a Native Alaskan corporation…

KEYSTONE XL: Dems float amendments to stall pipeline construction

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Democrats in the House Natural Resources Committee are pushing back against the expected committee approval of a controversial Keystone XL pipeline bill, proposing five amendments during a markup this morning…

ELECTRIC VEHICLES: Fisker to face lawmakers after company's failure to make DOE loan payment

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Current and former executives for Fisker Automotive Inc. will be grilled by lawmakers this afternoon, one day after news broke that the troubled electric-car maker failed to make its first…

WHITE HOUSE: Climate change threats are 'real, urgent and severe' -- national security adviser

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White House National Security Adviser Tom Donilon spoke about the "real, urgent and severe" national security threat that climate change presents in a speech at Columbia University's Center on Global…
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