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"EPA Officials Ignored Engineer's Theory in Range Contamination Case" [1]

"A former Texas state oil and gas regulator outlined in 2011 how two Range Resources Corp. wells outside Fort Worth could have leaked natural gas into the water supply of nearby homes."

Environmental Politics [2]
Pollution [3]
Science [4]
Public [5]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [6]
Source: EnergyWire [7], 02/21/2013
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"Obama Settles On EPA, Energy Department Nominees: Source" [8]

"President Barack Obama intends to nominate air quality expert Gina McCarthy to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and nuclear physicist Ernest Moniz to head the Department of Energy as early as this week, according to a source familiar with the process."

Environmental Politics [2]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: Reuters [10], 02/21/2013
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"Regent Defends Intervening With U. Iowa On Ethanol" [11]

"IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Regent Bruce Rastetter intervened on behalf of ethanol industry leaders who were upset with a prominent University of Iowa researcher for warning that water-intensive ethanol production was threatening Iowa's water supply, records show."

Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [2]
Public [5]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [14]
Source: AP [15], 02/20/2013
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"Digging for Dark Money" [16]

Exposes by the Guardian and Center for Public Integrity have unravelled parts of a dark network which launders the millions flowing from fossil-fuel interests like the Koch brothers to climate change denial and disinformation outlets. It was documents obtained by scientist Peter Gleick, whose undercover tactics brought criticism from some journalists, that helped bring the story to light.

Climate Change [17]
Economy & Business [12]
Environmental Politics [2]
Journalism & Media [18]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: Columbia Journalism Review [19], 02/20/2013
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North Carolina: "GOP Is Poised To Restructure Coastal Oversight" [20]

"Republican legislators’ plan to take over key state commissions would remake the Coastal Resources Commission in a way that could strain a decades-long partnership with federal regulators.

At stake is $2.5 million in federal funds the state receives each year to help protect the environment in a federal-state partnership that has afforded North Carolina local control of coastal development permits.

Environmental Politics [2]
Planning & Growth [21]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [5]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [23]
Source: Charlotte Observer [24], 02/19/2013
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"EPA Official: Cuts Will Undercut Pollution Forecasts, Waste Cleanups" [25]

"WASHINGTON -- A top environmental official is warning lawmakers that automatic spending cuts due next month would jeopardize EPA's ability to protect against oil spills, air pollution, and hazardous waste."

Environmental Politics [2]
Government [26]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: AP [27], 02/19/2013
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"Coal: Texas Developer Cancels Power Plant, Blames Obama Climate Push" [28]

A Texas company quit plans to build a coal-fired power plant -- blaming President Obama's environmental rules, but admitting the low price of natural gas was a key reason.

Activism [29]
Climate Change [17]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Health [30]
Environmental Politics [2]
Public [5]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [6]
Source: Greenwire [31], 02/19/2013
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"High-Stakes Fight Over Soybeans at High Court" [32]

Today the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case testing the reach of GMO companies' market power based on intellectual property claims -- and while environment and health are not immediately before the court, a case that could have wide impacts on both.

Agriculture [33]
Biodiversity [34]
Economy & Business [12]
Environmental Health [30]
Environmental Politics [2]
Technology [35]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: AP [36], 02/19/2013
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"Keystone XL Protesters Pressure Obama on Climate Change Promise" [37]

"Event billed as largest climate protest in US history intended as show of force as Obama nears decision on controversial project."

Activism [29]
Climate Change [17]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [2]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [9]
Canada [38]
Source: Wash Post [39], 02/18/2013
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"Secret Funding Helped Build Vast Network of Climate Denial Thinktanks" [40]

"Anonymous billionaires donated $120m to more than 100 anti-climate groups working to discredit climate change science."

Science [4]
Journalism & Media [18]
Environmental Politics [2]
Climate Change [17]
Activism [29]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: Guardian [41], 02/15/2013
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