Hawaiian police yesterday went door to door ordering evacuations on the slopes of Mount Kilauea, as two new volcanic vents began spewing dangerous gases and pouring lava into residential neighborhoods.
HAWAII: As new vents spew dangerous gases, police roust stragglers
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ELECTRIC VEHICLES: Uber reveals flying taxi concept
Uber Technologies Inc. showed off its flying car concept yesterday, saying it wants to get the world's first air-taxi service running in the next few years.
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NOAA: Endangered species fund lost money from agency inaction — GAO
A fund to protect endangered species missed out on significant money because NOAA has not tracked fines and fees from violations of fish and wildlife conservation laws, a federal watchdog has found.
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TECHNOLOGY: Smart sewers help cities better manage water
Sewer systems connected to the internet that can measure water levels and divert floodwater are growing in number across the country.
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SCIENCE: Turing, who cracked Nazi code, could also help desalination
Many know Alan Turing for inventing the modern computer in 1935 or cracking the Nazi Enigma code to help win World War II, but few know him as the naturalist who helped explain nature with math.
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CALIFORNIA: Water agency pledges $650M for Brown's tunnels
In a reversal, a Northern California water agency yesterday voted to fund part of Gov. Jerry Brown's (D) $17 billion bid to overhaul the state's water system.
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NUCLEAR WASTE: Congress keen on N.M. interim storage, locals not so much
In Washington, D.C., many lawmakers are excited about commercial interim nuclear waste storage facilities, which they see as a way to move spent fuel away from reactors around the country and store it temporarily until a long-debated permanent repository comes to fruition.
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PUBLIC LANDS: Cleanup aims to 'make the Unconformity great again'
Government and community groups will gather this weekend to clean up Nevada's Great Unconformity Interpretive Site.
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YELLOWSTONE: More unusual activity: Steamboat Geyser erupts a 4th time
The Steamboat Geyser in Yellowstone National Park has erupted four times in the past seven weeks, including its latest eruption Friday.
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CHESAPEAKE BAY: 'Orange-coffee color' blooms cloud waters
Chesapeake Bay waters are already seeing algae blooms known as mahogany tides.
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SAGE GROUSE: Wyo. governor reprimands oil and gas firm for breaking rules
Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead (R) yesterday handed an oil and gas company a $20,000 fine and a stern lecture for breaking the state's sage grouse rules.
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SAGE GROUSE: Group tells Zinke bird protections could also aid big game
Conservationists who have praised Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's focus on improving migration corridors and winter range for big game animals have a new suggestion for the Interior Department: Think smaller — say, the size of a sage grouse.
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ENDANGERED SPECIES: A Texas lizard lands back in ESA thicket
The dunes sagebrush lizard has now slithered back on stage in the never-ending Endangered Species Act drama.
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SUPERFUND: Critics say Pruitt showed favoritism over Calif. site
Critics are crying favoritism over EPA's plan to fast-track cleanup of a site in Orange County, Calif.
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FEDERAL WORKFORCE: DOE scientist, EPA toxicologist among Sammies finalists
Barbara Kutchko didn't have an oil rig in her backyard, so she needed industry's help.
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ENERGY POLICY: Committee passes resource diplomacy bill
The House Foreign Affairs Committee this morning put its support behind a bipartisan bill that would create a new assistant secretary dedicated to energy security and diplomacy at the State Department.
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BIOFUELS: Senators to Pruitt: Why did Icahn refinery get RFS waiver?
Six Senate Democrats are asking EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt to explain how an Oklahoma refinery owned by billionaire Carl Icahn was granted a waiver from federal biofuel blending mandates.
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DOE: Grid resilience 'about national security' — Perry
Energy Secretary Rick Perry today downplayed the likelihood his agency will use emergency authority under the Federal Power Act to subsidize coal and nuclear plants but kept alive the possibility of pulling another policy lever with a similar goal.
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LAW: Will states follow Ariz. in assault on Chevron?
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R) made his state the first last month to formally reject a legal doctrine that helps government agencies win lawsuits.
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INTERIOR: BLM plans law enforcement shakeup
The Bureau of Land Management revealed today it is contemplating an overhaul of its law enforcement program — from the location of its headquarters to whether rangers should wear visible flak jackets.
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