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Arctic Drilling In Doubt
5:06 pm
Wed February 13, 2013

Shell's Arctic Vessels: To Asia For Major Repairs, Anacortes Area For Tests

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The semi-submersible Mighty Servant 3 carrying an oil rig in 2006. Shell plans to use similar ships to haul two Alaskan oil rigs to Asia.
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Shell's Kulluk rig, under tow to Alaska's Kodiak Island in January after running aground.
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Shell's Arctic Challenger barge during testing in December in Puget Sound off Samish Island, Wash.
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UPDATE: Shell plans to use three tugs to tow the damaged Kulluk oil rig to Dutch Harbor in Alaska's Aleutian Islands, where it will await a longer trip to an unnamed Asian drydock. Shell and the US Coast Guard have disbanded the joint command formed after the Seattle-bound rig broke free from its sole tugboat, then ran aground. Officials said the Kulluk's outer hull was damaged but not breached. They did not specify the degree of damage, saying only, "The outer hull did receive damage as expected with a vessel being aground during adverse weather." 

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Clean Energy Development
8:58 am
Wed February 13, 2013

Wash. Gov. Inslee Sets Sights On ‘Defeating’ Climate Change

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Governor Jay Inslee (right) joined Capitol Land Trust executive director Eric Erler at the conservation group's annual breakfast in Olympia.
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Washington Gov. Jay Inslee says he wants to defeat climate change. Rather than taxing carbon or pursuing a cap-and-trade system to restrict the emission of greenhouse gases, the Democratic state executive wants more clean energy research and development.

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Nuclear Waste Program
7:00 am
Mon February 11, 2013

Bipartisan Group Plans Overhaul For Radioactive Waste Disposal

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By Anna King

Originally published on Fri February 8, 2013 5:07 pm

RICHLAND, Wash. - A bipartisan group of senior senators is drafting a bill to overhaul the U.S. nuclear-waste program. The group, which includes Oregon’s Democratic Senator Ron Wyden, is aiming to find a permanent home for the nation’s radioactive waste.

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The Way Home
8:20 am
Fri February 8, 2013

Study: Salmon Could Use Earth’s Magnetic Field To Go Home

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According to new research, sockeye salmon from the Fraser River take different routes home, depending on shifts in the earth's magnetic field.
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Salmon travel thousands of miles out to the open ocean to feed and mature. Then after a few years they head home, back to the exact river where they hatched to spawn the next generation.

Scientists don’t fully understand how the fish find their way back, but a new study found that salmon could be determining their routes home by shifts in the earth's magnetic field.

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REI's Emissions Increasing
7:56 pm
Wed February 6, 2013

Obama Picks ‘Climate Expert’ CEO Of REI To Head Interior Department

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President Barack Obama announcing Sally Jewell as his nominee for Secretary of Interior, with current Interior Secretary Ken Salazar looking on.
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President Barack Obama has nominated Sally Jewell, the head of Kent, Wash.-based retail chain Recreational Equipment Inc., to lead the Interior Department. 

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