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SOUTH KOREA: Enviros worry about future of Olympic ski hill

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When the venue site for the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics in Korea was selected, a local province made an agreement with environmentalists to replant trees and work to restore an area to its natural state once the games were over.

CHINA: Nation builds record solar capacity, but production lags

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After record additions last year, China has surpassed Germany as the country with the most installed solar capacity.

WATER POLLUTION: Company unlikely to pay $900K fine for 2014 spill in W.Va.

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A federal judge fined West Virginia chemical company Freedom Industries Inc. $900,000 yesterday for its role in polluting the water supply of hundreds of thousands of Charleston-area residents in 2014 -- a sum the bankrupt company is unlikely to ever pay.

AIR POLLUTION: Ore. waited to tell public of manufacturer's emissions

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Oregon regulators installed an air monitor next to a Portland glass manufacturer but waited weeks to tell the public what it found.

FLINT CRISIS: Lawmakers approve $30M to lower water bills

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Michigan lawmakers have approved $30 million to help Flint residents lower their water bills.

AIR POLLUTION: EPA floats 3-year extension for state haze plans

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States would get another three years to rework their regional haze plans under a U.S. EPA draft proposal awaiting review by the White House Office of Management and Budget.

AGRICULTURE: The bison business is booming

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Last year was a successful year for the bison industry, and the success is expected to continue.

PESTICIDES: Bayer will fight EPA request to pull insecticide

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Bayer AG's agricultural unit said today it will resist a U.S. EPA request to pull an insecticide from the market after concerns were raised that it could hurt freshwater organisms.

AIR POLLUTION: VW delays financial report, struggles with scandal cost

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The Volkswagen Group is delaying its annual financial reporting for fiscal 2015 because of difficulties quantifying the cost of its diesel emissions scandal.

DOE: Data-sharing program aims to transform real estate

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Just as data-driven decisionmaking has transformed health care and transportation, the Department of Energy's Building Technologies Office envisions better data could dramatically change real estate.

NUCLEAR: Electrical problem shuts down N.J. reactor

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A reactor at New Jersey's Salem nuclear power plant shut down automatically yesterday because of an electrical problem.

METHANE LEAK: Calif. well could be sealed by end of next week

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A monthslong natural gas leak that has driven thousands of Los Angeles residents from their homes could be sealed as early as next week, according to a California official.

WEATHER: Syrup season starts early amid warm temperatures

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Sap is flowing through maple trees in the Northeast due to warm weather, meaning an early start to the syrup season in some states.

COAL: Feds, enviros hit negotiating table over mine plans

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The Obama administration has decided to try settling a series of lawsuits filed by environmentalists challenging coal mine permitting across the West.

AIR POLLUTION: New EPA standard doesn't factor in background ozone -- Texas

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Texas is continuing its drumbeat of criticism of U.S. EPA's new ozone standard in a new court filing that asks whether federal regulators ignored relevant scientific research and whether they failed to consider the potential impact of background ozone outside the state's control.

WILDLIFE: New black tarantula named after music legend Johnny Cash

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A new black tarantula species that lives near Folsom State Prison in California has been named after the famously black-clothed country singer Johnny Cash.

OCEANS: Scientists discover origins of strange purple sock creature

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Scientists have concluded that the mysterious deep-sea creature that looks like an old purple sock actually belongs to one of the earliest branches of life.

ENDANGERED SPECIES: America's only wild jaguar caught on video

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The only wild jaguar known to live in the United States has been captured on video near Tucson, Ariz., conservation groups said Wednesday.

SCIENCE: Mammoth on the menu? Not in this case

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Scientists have put to rest a 65-year-old legend: The New York City-based Explorers Club did not serve mammoth at its 1951 annual dinner.

LAW: 'Lone cowboy' to be released from jail

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Duane Leo Ehmer, who has been described as the "lone cowboy" in the armed takeover of an Oregon federal wildlife refuge, will be released from jail pending trial.
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