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Spanish authorities have removed about 120 kilos of shipping fuel on the Canary Islands after a Russian ship sank off the coast.

Flights into and out of southern Chile are being canceled as ash blankets the region following two eruptions in the past 24 hours from the Calbuco volcano, the first in more than 40 years.

Elevated radiation levels found yesterday at a playground in Tokyo have revived fears over fallout from Japan's 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Montana Gov. Steve Bullock (D) will sign legislation approving a controversial tribal water-use agreement today, ignoring an ongoing legal challenge.

A large solar array behind the Oregon Institute of Technology in Klamath Falls, Ore., was valued at $10.3 million, far higher than other projects of similar scope.

Two top Maryland transportation officials announced their resignation last week.

Eric Beightel, who previously served as the Department of Transportation's senior environmental policy adviser, has gone to work for engineering and consulting firm Parsons Brinckerhoff.

Actor William Shatner, who has suggested building a $30 billion water pipeline from Seattle to drought-stricken California, holds senior water rights for his ranch near Sequoia National Park, according to the state's water rights database.

For the second year in the state's historic drought, California water regulators yesterday ordered farmers across the Central Valley to stop taking water from rivers and streams due to inadequate supplies.

The Department of Transportation is launching a pilot program aimed at making better use of transit projects to spur economic development.

Employees based in federal energy and environmental agencies yesterday took home top awards from the Senior Executives Association.

The administrators of a pension fund that covers around 100,000 coal industry workers and retirees will reduce a planned increase in contributions, citing the industry's financial struggles.

A small study by Swedish researchers suggests that some environmentally friendly products may produce a placebo effect, making consumers feel better about using the items.

Air emissions from the refining sector have decreased over the last two decades, an industry analysis released yesterday found.

A federal appeals court rejected a Maryland town's challenge of a federally permitted natural gas station.

Federal judges rejected rural Iowans' plea that U.S. EPA be forced to regulate toxic air emissions from animal feeding operations.

A wild and meandering police chase took a turn through Zion National Park on Tuesday evening as authorities were pursuing an alleged car thief who led them across two counties before finally being caught.

Scientists have finished a scientific portrait of the supervolcano beneath Yellowstone National Park, according to findings published online in the journal Science.

The U.S. Forest Service has signed off on a survey in the Monongahela National Forest in West Virginia to see whether a natural gas pipeline can be constructed there without damaging the environment.

Florida is planning another "Python Challenge" next year, but one scientist questioned whether the first mass hunt of invasive Burmese pythons actually did anything to curb burgeoning populations in the Everglades.

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