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Rob Portman (R-Ohio) will reintroduce a bipartisan energy efficiency bill, The Hill reports. Legislation will likely focus on research and development funding, building codes and incentives to improve energy efficiency in industry.

Senator David Vitter (R-Los Angeles), the top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, introduced the bipartisan North American Wetlands Conservation Extension Act, which would reauthorize a program to protect and restore wetlands in all 50 states until 2017. The program expired at the end of fiscal year 2012, the committee said.

The House Natural Resources Committee's Subcommittee on Mexico Mobile Number List Public Lands and Environmental Regulation will hold a hearing tomorrow on H.R. 657, the Rangeland Improvement Act, which its sponsors say would amend the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to improve lease management pastures and permits. The Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans and Insular Affairs will hold an oversight hearing tomorrow on the President's 2014 budget requests for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Council on Environmental Quality, the Office of Insular Affairs, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.



Grain Processing Corporation in Muscatine, Iowa, has agreed to pay a $129,000 fine for violating the federal Clean Water Act, the EPA says. The agency said the company's violations included exceeding limits on biochemical oxygen demand, total suspended solids, temperature and pH; taking non-representative flow measurements; failure to perform sedimentation tests; and failure to maintain all facilities and control systems in good working order.

The Environmental Protection Agency has reached two agreements with Mark West Liberty Midstream & Resources and Laurel Mountain Midstream Robin Hill, which have agreed to improve operations at their natural gas production facilities in western Pennsylvania. The agency said the companies failed to comply with federal clean air regulations aimed at preventing accidental releases of flammable substances.