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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, right, sits next to Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng Friday, Nov. 10, 2023, in San Francisco. Yellen and Lifeng met on Thursday in the San Francisco, the latest in a string of senior level engagements between the nations in recent months aimed at easing tensions. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Yellen says her talks with Chinese finance chief laid groundwork for Biden’s meeting with Xi

Associated Press

The European flag, left, flies at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, on April 18, 2023. European Union institutions and conservationists on Friday, Nov. 19, gave a conditional and guarded welcome to a major plan to better protect nature and fight climate change in the 27-nation bloc. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias, File)

EU plan aimed at fighting climate change to go to final votes, even if watered down

By Raf Casert - Associated Press

Capuava oil refinery owned by Petrobras sits in Maui, on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Monday, Nov. 6, 2023. Petrobras specializes in deep water exploration, drilling and extraction. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Oil companies attending climate talks have minimal green energy transition plans, AP analysis finds

By Mary Katherine Wildeman, Peter Prengaman and Doug Glass - Associated Press

Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, left, and Tuvalu's Prime Minister Kausea shake hands on One Foot Island after attending the Leaders' Retreat during the Pacific Islands Forum in Aitutaki, Cook Islands, Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023. Australia on Friday offered the island nation of Tuvalu a lifeline to help residents escape the rising seas and increased storms that climate change is bringing. (Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP)

Australia offers to help Tuvalu residents escape rising seas and other ravages of climate change

By Nick Perry - Associated Press

FILE - The Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant Thursday, June 1, 2023, in Avila Beach, Calif. The power plant was scheduled to close by 2025. But the Legislature changed course in September 2022 and opened a path for the reactors to keep running. On Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023, operator Pacific Gas & Electric asked federal regulators to extend the plant's operation while, supporters and critics clashed at a state hearing on Diablo Canyon's future. (Laura Dickinson/The Tribune via AP, File)

Disputes over safety, cost swirl a year after California OK’d plan to keep last nuke plant running

By MIchael R. Blood - Associated Press

FILE - Chickens walk in a fenced pasture at an organic farm in Iowa on Oct. 21, 2015. Another 1.2 million chickens will have to be slaughtered after bird flu was confirmed on an Iowa egg farm in the second massive case this week just days after nearly 1 million chickens had to be killed on a Minnesota egg farm. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

1.2 million chickens will be slaughtered at an Iowa farm where bird flu was found

By Josh Funk - Associated Press

FILE - John Gafabusa, custodian of the Mutyona natural sacred site near Buliisa, Uganda, points at a water covered sacred site on Lake Albert at the Karakaba landing site, on Aug. 3, 2023. The French oil company TotalEnergies is failing to protect the sanctity of hundreds of graves in a controversial project that aims to build a heated pipeline from oil fields in Uganda to a port in Tanzania, according to a new report by a New York-based climate watchdog. (AP Photo/Hajarah Natwadda, File)

A TotalEnergies pipeline project in East Africa is disturbing community graves, watchdog says

By Rodney Muhumuza - Associated Press

A truck carries oil sand at Suncor's facility near Fort McMurray, Canada, on Friday, Sep. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

Canada says it can fight climate change and be major oil nation. Massive fires may force a reckoning

By Suman Naishadham and Victor Caivano - Associated Press

Demonstrators protest against the Biden administration's approval of the Willow oil-drilling project before a scheduled speech by Biden at the Department of the Interior in Washington, March 21, 2023. A federal judge on Thursday, Nov. 9 upheld the Biden administration's approval of the Willow oil-drilling project on Alaska's remote North Slope, a massive project that had drawn the ire of environmentalists who accused the president of backpedaling on his pledge to combat climate change. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Alaska judge upholds Biden administration’s approval of the massive Willow oil-drilling project

By Becky Bohrer - Associated Press

Bull Elk - Photograph taken in Elk State Forest, Elk County, Benezette, Pennsylvania. File photo credit: Paul Staniszewski via Shutterstock.

Arizona woman trampled to death in state’s first recorded fatal elk attack

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

A surfer rides a wave in the Atlantic Ocean in Biarritz, southwestern France, Oct. 7, 2023. October was the fifth straight month that Earth set a record for the hottest month in recorded history. (AP Photo/Bob Edme, File)

Red hot October almost guarantees 2023 will be the hottest year on record

By Melina Walling - Associated Press

Britain's Prince William, right, takes part in a panel discussion on stage with Earthshot Prize trustee Christiana Figueres, left, Brandon Ng of Ampd Energy at the Earthshot+ Summit at Park Royal Pickering in Singapore, Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023. William is on a four-day visit to Singapore, where he attended the Earthshot Prize that aims to reward innovative efforts to combat climate change. (Mohd Rasfan/Pool Photo via AP)

Prince William hopes to expand his Earthshot Prize into a global environment movement by 2030

By Eileen Ng - Associated Press

Children play in front of a blast furnace of German steel producer thyssenkrupp Steel Europe in Duisburg, Germany, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023. The producer — whose emissions in 2022 rivaled those of some oil and gas majors, according to data they reported to non-profit CDP — sent four people with three different delegations to COP27. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Fossil fuel interests have large, yet often murky, presence at climate talks, AP analysis finds

By Seth Borenstein and Mary Katherine Wildeman - Associated Press

Illustration on America's energy dependence by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Energy stability affects national security, prosperity, progress

By Kayse Shrum

A Jacaranda tree in bloom in Nairobi, Kenya, Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023. Every year in early October, clusters of purple haze dot Nairobi's tree line as the city's jacaranda trees come into bloom. (AP Photo/Sayyid Abdul Azim)

Kenya declares a surprise public holiday for a national campaign to plant 15 billion trees

By Emmanuel Igunza - Associated Press

A cyclist rides amid smog in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023. Masks are back on the streets as residents of the capital city grapple with the annual surge in air pollution that has engulfed the region. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Masks are back, construction banned and schools shut as toxic air engulfs New Delhi

By Shonal Ganguly and Piyush Nagpal - Associated Press

Cyprus' Energy Minister George Papanastasiou talks during an Associated Press interview in capital Nicosia, Cyprus, on Tuesday, Nov, 7, 2023. Papanastasiou says the political and economic ramifications from the ongoing crisis in Gaza could inject fresh impetus to plans for a pipeline conveying Israeli and Cypriot offshore natural gas to the east Mediterranean island nation for processing and export by ship to markets abroad. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Cyprus official says Israel-Hamas war may give an impetus to regional energy projects

By Menelaos Hadjicostis - Associated Press

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, right, walks with Chinese Premier Li Qiang during a ceremonial welcome at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023. Albanese is on the final day of a three-day visit to China. (Lukas Coch/AAP Image via AP)

Australia’s leader calls for free and unimpeded trade to resume with China after ties deteriorated

Associated Press

This photo provided by Virginia Department of Forestry shows firefighters trying to stop the western spread of the Quaker Run Wildfire in Madison County, Va. The state Department of Forestry said a wildfire near Madison County has led officials to encourage some residents to evacuate as crews work to stop the blaze from spreading. That fire had burned nearly 2,500 acres (1,012 hectares) on Sunday, but no structures have been affected and firefighters were installing additional fire lines to maintain that, the agency said. (Virginia Department of Forestry via AP)

Virginia’s governor declares a state of emergency as firefighters battle wildfires

Associated Press

Flags of North Korea, rear, and South Korea, front, flutter in the wind as pictured from the border area between two Koreas in Paju, South Korea, on Aug. 9, 2021. South Korea said Monday, Nov. 6, 2023, it plans to launch its first domestically built spy satellite at the end of this month as part of its efforts to better monitor rival North Korea and deter its potential aggressions. (Im Byung-shik/Yonhap via AP, File)

South Korea plans to launch its first military spy satellite on Nov. 30

By Hyung-jin Kim - Associated Press