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ETHANOL: Record U.S. production could go higher if corn prices rise

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Ethanol production in the United States likely reached a new high in 2015, fueling another big year for exports, economists at the University of Illinois reported.

ARCTIC: Commercial sea route not viable for decades -- report

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Despite hopeful predictions that large cargo ships could shortcut through the Arctic Ocean within the next few years, it will be decades before vessels can connect China and Europe via a northern route, a report predicts.

EMISSIONS: EPA poised to act on aircraft carbon

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The ball is now in U.S. EPA's court following an international agreement setting limits on greenhouse gas emissions from aircraft.

AIR POLLUTION: N.J. sues Volkswagen over emissions scandal

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New Jersey joined three other U.S. states last week in filing lawsuits against Volkswagen AG and its luxury units over excess diesel emissions.

FLINT CRISIS: Mich. judge bucks tradition, assigns himself to case

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Michigan Court of Claims Chief Judge Michael Talbot has sidestepped a traditional blind draw process and assigned himself to the class-action lawsuit against Gov. Rick Snyder (R) and government agencies over damages incurred from Flint's lead-laced drinking water.

FLINT CRISIS: Family sues over toddler's high lead levels

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A Flint, Mich., family has filed a federal lawsuit seeking damages after tests found their 2-year-old child was poisoned by lead.

EPA: Wyo. judge dismisses lawsuit over armed raid

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Wyoming residents who lost their jobs after being the targets of an armed raid by U.S. EPA investigators waited too long to challenge the agency in court, a federal judge found yesterday.

OBITUARY: Scientist who helped prove continental drift dies at 85

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Richard Von Herzen, an explorer who studied the Earth's crust, died last month. He was 85.

OBITUARY: Pioneering space writer dies at 82

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Henry S. F. Cooper Jr., a pioneering space travel writer, died on Jan. 31 at his home in New York after he succumbed to lung cancer. He was 82.

ENDANGERED SPECIES: Ore. irrigation group asks Hill to back disputed habitat plan

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The Oregon Water Resources Congress yesterday urged lawmakers to back a tentative plan to protect the habitat of an imperiled frog, which the agricultural water users group argued could be undone by environmental litigation.

LAW: Ammon Bundy's attorneys deny ethics violations

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Lawyers representing rancher Ammon Bundy who traveled to the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge to offer their services for free deny that they violated ethics rules while seeking the new business.

PUBLIC LANDS: FWS to reroute water for wildlife on occupied refuge

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Since the armed occupation began five weeks ago in the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employees have been absent. But they are now planning efforts to ensure water flow in the area sustains birds and irrigates fields where cattle graze.

MICHIGAN: Board OKs Snyder's recall petition -- but not for Flint crisis

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Michigan regulators have approved the circulation of a petition calling for a recall election of Gov. Rick Snyder (R), but the one they approved is not related to the Flint water crisis.

PEOPLE: NRDC Action Fund picks new chief

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Kevin Curtis will be the next executive director for the NRDC Action Fund.

EPA: McCarthy to deliver law school commencement speech

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U.S. EPA chief Gina McCarthy has signed up to deliver the commencement address at Vermont Law School in May, the school announced today.

BROWNFIELDS: House lawmakers put forward reauthorization plan

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House lawmakers have introduced a proposal to reauthorize U.S. EPA's popular brownfields program.

ENERGY POLICY: Senate bill's fate up in the air

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Senators are huddling with their respective caucuses this afternoon to try to sort out a path for salvaging the chamber's bipartisan energy package, after overnight negotiations on aid for Flint, Mich., appear to have failed to clear the chief hurdle to finishing the bill.

FEDERAL AGENCIES: White House proposal offers 35% boost for cyber defenses

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President Obama has proposed a substantial budgetary boost to cybersecurity for the federal government.

DOE: Spending request would rev up 'Mission Innovation'

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The Energy Department's clean energy programs would see a significant spending boost under the Obama administration's fiscal 2017 budget request, highlighting the White House's stepped-up committment to tackle climate change through increased research and development spending.

INTERIOR: Obama goes big on conservation, climate resilience

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President Obama's final budget proposal for the Interior Department seeks major funding boosts for land conservation, national parks infrastructure and coastal resilience to climate change.
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