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A volcano in western Indonesia erupted again today with a billow of ash and an avalanche of hot clouds stretching about a mile from its peak, according to a natural disaster spokesman.

China's government says it is on track to exceed its goals this year for cutting water pollution and plans another $326 billion in spending to further clean up its rivers and lakes.

India's Supreme Court came down harder than expected today, officially canceling more than 200 coal licenses handed out to major industrial companies due to the "arbitrary and illegal" process by which they were doled out.

Seattle's City Council approved a new fine for residents who put too many compostable food scraps and paper products in household garbage containers, in one of the toughest such restrictions in the country.

The Department of Veterans Affairs published final rules yesterday to implement a 2012 law that will require the agency to cover out-of-pocket health care costs for the dependents of Marines who developed cancer and other illnesses from toxic water at Camp Lejeune, N.C.

A persistent fire burning World War II-era wooden pylons soaked in creosote at the Port of Los Angeles yesterday is causing concerns over air quality in the city.

Duke Energy Corp., the company responsible for a large coal ash spill near the North Carolina-Virginia line earlier this year, today announced the creation of a $10 million fund to benefit North Carolina and South Carolina waterways.

The U.S. has an "outdated" and "inefficient" mine permitting system that could be a barrier for economic development in downstream industries, according to a report released today by the National Mining Association.

The Department of Energy has had trouble with its cloud computing system, according to a new inspector general report released today.

When Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx this month announced the award of almost $600 million in TIGER grants, he hailed them as a "shot in the arm" for dozens of "innovative, job-creating and quality-of-life-enhancing projects."

Utility officials in Nevada said they will cooperate with state investigators probing a possible link between smart electricity meters and nine fires that have ignited in Reno and Sparks since 2012.

Four workers were injured by an explosion yesterday at a natural gas storage tank in western Wyoming, officials said.

Nearly every other day for 10 years in the United States, a gas leak has harmed property or injured or killed a person, according to a USA Today investigation. The most serious explosions have killed at least 135 people, injured 600 others and damaged $2 billion in property since 2004.

A four-company alliance is pitching what it calls wind energy's "holy grail," but the plan to power an estimated 1.2 million homes in Southern California with Wyoming wind has a long way to go.

The nation produced nearly 3.5 million gallons of cellulosic biofuel in August, more than all the other months of the year combined and the most production ever for a single month, U.S. EPA reported this week.

Federal judges today appeared reluctant to side with the grain industry in its challenge to the Obama administration extending safety protocols to the handling of combustible dust at mills.

Eleven American Indian tribes and Canadian First Nations yesterday inked the first inter-tribal treaty in more than a century to repopulate the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains with the bison that once sustained their forebears.

Reporters would need special permission, including an expensive photography permit, to shoot photographs or videos in vast areas of federal lands under controversial new rules proposed by the Forest Service.

Groups are calling on the Agriculture Department to provide details on how the agency plans to manage its Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), which pays growers to protect environmentally sensitive land.

Animal rights groups are crying foul over the live pigeon shoot staged as a fundraiser for Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Inhofe.

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