With the plugging of a monthslong methane leak at a natural gas well in Los Angeles last week, lawyers have turned their attention to litigation stemming from the environmental debacle.
LAW: Calif. gas leak seen as litigation gusher rivaling BP spill
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SUPREME COURT: Goodbye to Scalia's 'elephants in mouseholes'
Among the many things lost with the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia: his colorful language.
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SUPREME COURT: Senate opposition thaws to vote on Obama nominee
Senate Republicans are sounding less likely to let the clock run out on President Obama's chance to fill the Supreme Court seat of the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
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PUBLIC LANDS: 'Violent' Cliven Bundy, who turned cattle 'mean,' kept in jail
Cliven Bundy was a lawless sham of a rancher who would be a threat to police and the public if released from custody, federal prosecutors successfully argued yesterday to a district judge who ordered the prisoner to remain behind bars.
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CLEAN POWER PLAN: Crowell & Moring's Lorenzen says rule will not survive legal challenges
As states consider next steps following the Supreme Court's stay of U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan, what is the legal future of the rule? During today's OnPoint, Thomas Lorenzen, a partner at Crowell & Moring and a former assistant chief in the Department of Justice's Environment and Natural Resources Division, discusses how parties involved in the pending litigation may be adjusting their strategies as a result of the stay. He also gives his perspective on how recent events could impact President Obama's climate legacy.
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SOUTH AFRICA: Lion kills park employee
A Hluhluwe-Imfolozi park employee was killed by a lion in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal, according to the conservation agency Ezemvelo.
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AUSTRALIA: Hairy panic engulfs homes
Australian residents in a rural community are frustrated with a particularly bad outbreak of a fast-growing tumbleweed called hairy panic that is piling up outside of homes -- in some instances reaching roof height -- blanketing lawns and covering windows and doors.
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NEW JERSEY: Wild turkeys attack, trap mail carrier
A flock of wild turkeys attacked and surrounded a New Jersey mail carrier Tuesday, requiring police officers to come chase them away.
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CALIFORNIA: Brown requests $176M to clean contaminated homes
California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) has asked the state to spend $176.6 million to expedite the testing and cleaning of thousands of lead-contaminated houses around a closed battery recycling plant near Los Angeles.
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LEAD: Ohio EPA fires employees over contamination
Ohio's Environmental Protection Agency fired two employees and demoted another for failing to adhere to proper procedure, which resulted in lead contamination in the water of the village of Sebring in the northeast part of the state.
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DRINKING WATER: Mich. governor, Flint mayor split on pace of pipe projects
Outside engineers have been tasked with locating Flint's underground lead water pipes within a month, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) said yesterday.
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RAIL: Federal grants address energy transport safety
In a bid to make transporting oil by rail safer, the Federal Railroad Administration has awarded almost $10 million in grants to nine projects that would upgrade railroad crossings in eight states.
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NATIONAL PARKS: NPS promises sweeping reforms after Grand Canyon harassment
The National Park Service has announced a number of reforms to address a federal report's findings that Grand Canyon employees sexually harassed their female colleagues and retaliated against them for refusing sexual advances.
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OIL AND GAS: Corrosion burst Santa Barbara pipeline -- regulators
Corrosion in a pipeline carrying crude oil was the cause of the leak in May 2015 that spewed more than 14,000 gallons of oil along the Santa Barbara coastline, federal regulators reported yesterday.
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PEOPLE: Former aide to Bishop, Chaffetz heads to PG&E
A former aide to Utah Republicans has moved to California to work for the state's largest utility.
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COAL: Export terminals go from 'vital to irrelevant' -- analyst
Building new U.S. coal export terminals has gone from "vital to irrelevant" in just three years, said a new analysis from a research firm known for having been bullish on West Coast proposals.
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OCEANS: Warming waters boost disease -- studies
The prevalence of diseases that kill lobsters and starfish is increasing because of warming waters in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, according to new studies.
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BUSINESS: Apple to issue largest green bond in history
Apple Inc. has issued the largest so-called green bond in history -- $1.5 billion to be used to fund clean energy projects in its operations worldwide.
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WEATHER: January shatters heat records
Last year marked the hottest year on the surface of Earth, but 2016 is already on track to surpass it.
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GULF SPILL: BP supervisor should be held responsible -- prosecutor
Robert Kaluza -- a supervisor of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig at the well that blew out in 2010, killing 11 rig workers and starting the nation's largest oil spill -- ignored critical test results and should be held partly responsible for the blowout, which sent 134 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, a federal prosecutor argued yesterday.
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