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August 13, 2015 ENERGY (MSM)

EPA head meets with Navajo president over Colorado mine spill

By Alison Uralli FARMINGTON, N.M. (Reuters) – The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection agency told the Navajo Nation president on Thursday that her agency would work closely with the Native American tribe in handling a toxic waste spill into river waters from a defunct Colorado gold mine. Navajo Nation President Russell Begaye has pledged to take legal action against the EPA, which has taken responsibility for inadvertently causing the

August 13, 2015 REAL ESTATE

Christie fundraiser to be hosted by hedge fund billionaire Cohen

(Reuters) – Billionaire hedge fund manager Steven A. Cohen will host a fundraiser Saturday for Republican presidential hopeful Chris Christie in New York’s summer playground of East Hampton, according to an invitation seen by Reuters. The $2,700-a-pop luncheon at Cohen’s mansion will not be the first time that he has shown support for the New Jersey governor as he seeks the Republican Party nomination for the November 2016 election. Real

August 13, 2015 ENERGY (MSM)

Fifteen U.S. states seek to block EPA carbon rule

Fifteen state attorneys general filed a court petition in Washington to block the Environmental Protection Agency’s new rules to curb carbon emissions from power plants until courts have weighed in on whether they are legal. States from Alabama to West Virginia that oppose the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan filed for the stay in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and asked for a ruling by Sept.