SPOTLIGHT

1. NEWSMAKER:
Heading enviro group, Norton champions ideas she pushed at Interior

Top Stories

2. NUCLEAR POWER:
Endgame close in legal tussles over Vermont Yankee

3. POLITICS:
GOP retreat is no place for natural resource issues

4. RENEWABLE ENERGY:
Minn. wind farm seeks first eagle-kill permit

Politics

5. DOE:
'I love what I'm doing' -- Chu

6. WATER POLLUTION:
EPA launches dialogue on affordability with mayors, water agencies

7. CALIFORNIA:
Democrats back alternative to massive delta water tunnels

8. TRANSPORTATION:
Bloomberg urges other cities to follow his lead on transit, bicycle investments

Natural Resources

9. RENEWABLE ENERGY:
Salazar announces approval of major new Ariz. development plan

10. WILDLIFE:
Enviros continue push to list African lion as endangered

11. ENDANGERED SPECIES:
Wood bison return to Alaska under reintroduction deal

12. CHESAPEAKE BAY:
Three-fourths of waters 'impaired' by chemicals -- report

13. OCEANS:
Thousands of dead fish wash ashore on S.C. beach

14. WILDLIFE:
State officials investigate killings of 4 bald eagles

15. OCEANS:
Officials confirm dock in Wash. as tsunami debris

Law

16. ENFORCEMENT:
DOJ touts 2012 record

Energy

17. NATURAL GAS:
Big business splits over exports

18. OIL AND GAS:
Tugboat carrying 4,000 gallons of diesel sinks in Mississippi River

Business

19. RENEWABLE ENERGY:
Wind hit installation record as developers raced to claim tax credit -- report

20. COAL:
Industry group faults EPA for higher electric bills

21. NUCLEAR POWER:
Utility will decide next month whether to fix or retire Fla. reactor

Federal Agencies

22. EPA:
Agency officials to meet with unions on sequestration

Air and Water

23. AIR POLLUTION:
EPA finalizes haze rules for iron facilities, proposes Navajo compromise

24. WATER POLLUTION:
Report finds $8.2B invested globally in watersheds rather than infrastructure

25. AIR POLLUTION:
N.J. residents sue over toxins released from train crash

26. WATER POLLUTION:
Calif. opens probe of pilot in Bay Bridge tanker wreck

States

27. MASSACHUSETTS:
New bill would punish those who mislabel seafood

28. IDAHO:
Female Fish and Game appointee faces confirmation battle

29. WYOMING:
Bill would legalize roadkill as meat

30. NEVADA:
Water agency aims to use eminent domain for dam project

International

31. ALGERIA:
Oil companies evacuate natural gas plant in wake of hostage situation

32. LAOS:
Vietnam, Cambodia blast Mekong dam plan