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Obama will cut federal greenhouse gas emissions. -

The president intends to sign an executive order cutting the government’s emissions 40 percent from 2008 levels, his administration announced. Government suppliers like IBM and GE are pledging to reduce their own carbon footprints. Washington Post

The Obama administration will push to expand renewables and restrict pollution on public lands. -

While the House Republicans' 2016 budget plan calls for more oil and gas drilling, Department of the Interior Secretary Sally Jewell warned fossil-fuel companies to expect new regulations during the administration's last two years. Washington Post

Maybe I’m old-fashioned, but I do not believe a regulated industry should be so intimately involved in writing a bill that regulates them.

—California Senator Barbara Boxer, who says the final draft of a bill to reform regulations on toxic chemicals was written by chemical-industry lobbyists. Last week, Boxer unveiled a competing bill, which specifies tougher safeguards against asbestos and other dangerous substances.

The melting of Antarctica is worse than we thought. -

Last year we learned that warm ocean water is rapidly melting the great ice sheet of West Antarctica. A new paper finds that the same thing is happening to the huge Totten glacier of East Antarctica. Snowball that, Senator Inhofe! Washington Post

Solar could power California three times over. -

Solar energy is usually collected in remote, undeveloped areas. But a new study suggests that by making use of available space in developed areas, the state could generate three to five times as much energy as Californians need. Washington Post

GOP governors aren't happy about the EPA's new ozone rule. -

In a letter to the agency, 11 Republican leaders called the proposed air-pollution standards—which would rein in ozone emissions to improve air quality and public health—"onerous" and "job-crushing." The Hill