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AUTOS: Power flows both ways in new EV pilot project

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A new project that allows power to flow two ways between electric cars and charging stations will be announced today. The project -- conducted by the University of Delaware, regional…

TRANSPORTATION: Diesel, hybrid registrations way up -- report

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Registrations for clean diesel cars and sport utility vehicles nationwide increased by nearly 25 percent from 2010 through 2012, with Texas having the most diesel vehicles in 2012, according to…

URANIUM: Colo. reissues key permit for controversial mill

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Colorado regulators have granted Toronto-based Energy Fuels Inc. a new license to build the country's first conventional uranium mill in three decades. Yesterday, the Colorado Department of Public Health and…

POLITICS: Fire politicians who don't act on climate change -- billionaire activist

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BERKELEY, Calif. -- A former hedge fund manager who has been pouring money into politics in hopes of spurring action on climate change urged activists here yesterday to toss out…

OFFSHORE DRILLING: Judge orders Transocean to comply with federal subpoenas

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A federal judge yesterday ordered Transocean Ltd. to turn over documents relating to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill to federal investigators. Houston-based U.S. District Judge Lee Rosenthal ruled that Transocean…

COAL: Enviros sue TVA over plant upgrades

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Several environmental groups sued the Tennessee Valley Authority yesterday in their latest attempt to stop upgrades to its Gallatin coal-fired power plant near Nashville, Tenn. The groups -- including the…

FLOODS: Fargo ends up with 1M extra sandbags after forecasters downgrade predictions

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Fargo, North Dakota's largest city, has 1 million extra sandbags after weather experts scaled back catastrophic flood predictions. The town conducted a massive effort to produce 1.1 million sandbags. But…

FORESTS: Urban trees highlight socioeconomic divide

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In Washington, D.C., environmental activists trying to turn vacant spaces into green ones are having difficulty getting residents on board. That's because there's a great socioeconomic divide on how people…

AGRICULTURE: Drought relief brings new woes to farmers

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While spring rains have brought some drought relief to Midwestern farmers, the precipitation is turning fields to mud. According to the National Drought Mitigation Center in Lincoln, Neb., the rains…

ENDANGERED SPECIES: FWS looks to delist gray wolves

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The Fish and Wildlife Service is moving toward removing the gray wolf from the endangered species list. Mexican wolves in Arizona and New Mexico would remain on the list. The…

ENDANGERED SPECIES: FWS releases four Mexican wolves into the wild

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SEVILLETA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, N.M. -- About a dozen Fish and Wildlife Service personnel and volunteers stepped forward in a slow-motion line dance, quietly advancing toward a male Mexican wolf.…

INTERIOR: Sally Jewell meets the Avenging Fellowship of the Rainbow Lightsaber Unicorns

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Not two weeks removed from a grueling Senate confirmation process, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell found herself yesterday being peppered once again with questions. But rather than a Senate hearing room,…

REGULATIONS: New federal rules do more good than harm to the economy -- OMB

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The benefits outweighed costs of most of the major rules and regulations that federal agencies issued last year, according to a report released yesterday by the White House. The Office…

COAL: Ind. lawmaker introduces bill to block stream rule

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Sen. Dan Coats (R-Ind.) introduced legislation yesterday meant to prevent the federal Office of Surface Mining from promulgating its forthcoming stream protection rule. The proposal, which has been years in…

HYDRAULIC FRACTURING: GOP blasts White House request to boost fracking study funds

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House Republicans today criticized an Obama administration request for additional money to fund an ongoing study into the health, safety and environmental consequences of hydraulic fracturing. Lawmakers argued that the…

AVIATION: House passes legislation to halt FAA furloughs

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Responding to the national outcry over flight delays, the House today easily approved legislation that would allow the Federal Aviation Administration to transfer up to $253 million within its accounts…

SCIENCE: The cicadas are coming! The cicadas are coming!

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NEW YORK -- Cole Gilbert doesn't consider himself the world's foremost cicada expert, but once every 17 years he's willing to try. The goateed Cornell University entomologist held court during…

NOAA: More vacancies in forecast for embattled Weather Service

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On a recent day in Michigan, a weather forecaster called in sick. At the National Weather Service, someone else is usually around to pick up the slack. But in this…

OIL AND GAS: Court rebuffs industry challenge to SEC reporting rule

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Federal judges today turned away a petroleum industry challenge to a major Securities and Exchange Commission rule requiring companies to disclose payments to domestic and foreign governments. The U.S. Court…

FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE: How the pet industry beat the sequester

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Turns out, sequestration can be beat. And while air traffic controllers learned that today in a high-profile vote on Capitol Hill that reversed furloughs at the Federal Aviation Administration, the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council, or PIJAC, has known that fact for well over a month. During the group's annual conference this week, some PIJAC leaders took time out to discuss how a targeted lobbying campaign, which didn't make many headlines, helped overturn a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decision to suspend overtime and weekend inspections of commercial wildlife imports and exports.
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