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In this undated photo provided by Madeline Hartman, Carol Logan, left, Wilbur Slockish, center, and Johnny Jackson stand on Mount Hood, Ore. Slockish, Logan and Jackson were plaintiffs in a 2008 lawsuit filed against the U.S. Department of Transportation over damage to a site sacred to local tribes along U.S. Highway 26 on Mount Hood. The U.S. government has agreed to help restore the sacred Native American site on the slopes of Oregon's Mount Hood that was destroyed by highway construction, court documents show, capping more than 15 years of legal battles that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. (Madeline Hartman via AP)

US government agrees to help restore sacred Native American site destroyed for Oregon road project

By Claire Rush - Associated Press

Riders wear mask as they pass through the haze from forest fires in Palembang, South Sumatra, Indonesia, Friday, Oct. 6, 2023. Indonesia denied Friday that forest and peat fires on Sumatra and Borneo islands were causing the haze in Malaysia, after the neighboring government sent a letter complaining about the air quality and asking to work together to deal with the fires. (AP Photo/Muhammad Hatta)

Indonesia denies its fires are causing blankets of haze in neighboring Malaysia

By Edna Tarigan - Associated Press

Health workers attend to patients suffering from cholera symptoms at a local hospital in Harare, Tuesday, Sept., 11, 2018. Zimbabwe has recorded 100 suspected deaths from cholera and more than 5,000 possible cases since late Sept. 2023. That has prompted the government to impose restrictions to stop the spread of the disease, including limiting numbers at funerals and stopping some social gatherings in affected areas. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi, File)

Zimbabwe announces 100 suspected cholera deaths and imposes restrictions on gatherings

By Farai Mutsaka - Associated Press

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Letter to the editor: Electric vehicles are the latest feel-good scam

Sultan Al Jaber, COP28 President-Designate and UAE's Special Envoy for Climate Change, talks during the Climate Future Week at Museum of the Future in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023. The Emirati president-designate for the upcoming United Nations COP28 climate conference offered a full-throated defense Saturday of his nation hosting the talks, dismissing those “just go on the attack without knowing anything, without knowing who we are.” (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

Developed nations pledge $9.3 billion to global climate fund at gathering in Germany

By Stephanie Liechtenstein - Associated Press

Tommy Beaudreau, Deputy Secretary of the Interior, speaks during a news conference on Lake Mead at Hoover Dam, Tuesday, April 11, 2023, near Boulder City, Nev. The Biden administration on Tuesday released an environmental analysis of competing plans for how Western states and tribes reliant on the dwindling Colorado River should cut their use. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Interior’s No. 2 official leaving contentious role overseeing Biden energy policies

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

FILE - This photo shows the Ice Harbor dam on the Snake River in Pasco, Wash, Oct. 24, 2006. In a move that conservationists and tribes called a potential breakthrough, President Joe Biden has directed federal agencies to use all available authorities and resources to restore “healthy and abundant” salmon runs in the Columbia River Basin. (AP Photo/Jackie Johnston, File)

Biden memo directs U.S. agencies to restore ‘healthy and abundant’ salmon runs in the Northwest

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

Pope Francis presides over a mass concelebrated by the new cardinals for the start of the XVI General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, Wednesday, Oct.4, 2023. Pope Francis is convening a global gathering of bishops and laypeople to discuss the future of the Catholic Church, including some hot-button issues that have previously been considered off the table for discussion. Key agenda items include women's role in the church, welcoming LGBTQ+ Catholics, and how bishops exercise authority. For the first time, women and laypeople can vote on specific proposals alongside bishops (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope Francis is dead wrong on climate change, again

By Chris Talgo

A man pushes a stroller near the AES power plant in Redondo Beach, Calif., on Sept. 7, 2022. Major corporations from oil and gas companies to retail giants may have to disclose their direct greenhouse gas emissions as well as those that come from activities like employee business travel under legislation being considered by California lawmakers. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Federal policies must recognize reality of compromised electric reliability

By Rep. Randy Feenstra and Chuck Soderberg

FILE - An Ethiopian woman scoops up portions of wheat to be allocated to each waiting family after it was distributed by the Relief Society of Tigray in the town of Agula, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia on May 8, 2021. The United States Agency for International Development is resuming food deliveries to hundreds of thousands of refugees in Ethiopia, after assistance was halted earlier this year over a widespread scheme to steal supplies. The decision was made after Ethiopia’s government agreed to remove itself from the dispatch, storage and distribution of refugee food supplies, a USAID spokesperson said on Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

U.S. resumes some food aid deliveries to Ethiopia after assistance halted over ‘widespread’ theft

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FILE - Three wind turbines from Deepwater Wind stand in the water off Block Island, R.I, the nation's first offshore wind farm, Aug. 15, 2016. The governors of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut announced a multi-state agreement Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023, designed to streamline the selection of offshore wind energy projects. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)

3 New England states join together for offshore wind power projects, aiming to lower costs

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The Maple Springs Deep Mine in Hollsopple, PA., is shown, Tuesday, Oct.3, 2023. An employee at the mine was crushed to death in an accident involving a shuttle car on Monday, Oct. 2, 2023, authorities said. (John Rucosky/The Tribune-Democrat via AP)

Mining company employee killed in western Pennsylvania mine accident

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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Building is shown in Washington, Sept. 21, 2017. The former head of a federal agency that investigates chemical accidents improperly spent more than $90,000 during her tenure, including unauthorized trips to and from her California home, remodeling her Washington office and outside media training for herself, according to a new report by a federal watchdog. The report by the EPA’s inspector general says Katherine Lemos, the former chair of the U.S. Chemical Safety Board, was not entitled to travel expenses for at least 18 round trips to the capital from her home in San Diego from April 2020 through March 2022. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Louisiana needs control of carbon capture to bolster energy production

By Tommy Faucheax

Flood waters inundate buildings along the Teesta river in Sikkim, India, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023. Twenty-three Indian army soldiers are missing after a cloudburst triggered flash floods in the northeastern state of Sikkim. The flooding occurred along the Teesta River in Lachen valley, a statement from India's army said Wednesday, adding that search efforts were underway. (Indian Army via AP)

5 civilians killed and more than 20 Indian soldiers are missing after flash floods hit Sikkim state

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A man walks through wildfire wreckage in Lahaina, Hawaii, Aug. 11, 2023. Federal authorities have started removing hazardous materials from the Maui wildfires and laying the groundwork to dispose of burnt cars, buildings and other debris. The hazardous materials, including oil, solvent and batteries, are being shipped to the West Coast while the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers works with local officials to develop a plan to dispose of an estimated 400,000 to 700,000 tons of debris on the island. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Cleanup from Maui fires complicated by island’s logistical challenges, cultural significance

By Michael Casey - Associated Press

Copies of Pope Francis' latest encyclical letter on environment "Laudate Deum" are on sale in a bookshop in Rome, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023. Pope Francis shamed and challenged world leaders on Wednesday to commit to binding targets to slow climate change before it's too late, warning that God's increasingly warming creation is fast reaching a "point of no return." (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Point of no return: Pope challenges leaders at U.N talks to slow global warming before it’s too late

By Nicole Winfield and Seth Borenstein - Associated Press

Golden apple snail. File photo credit: Araya Pink via Shutterstock.

Invasive snail species that poses health risks to humans confirmed in North Carolina

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

In this Feb. 23, 2011, photo, Dish Network satellite dishes are shown at an apartment complex in Palo Alto, Calif. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma) **FILE**

DISH Network fined $150,000 for failing to suitably de-orbit satellite

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Plaintiffs in a climate lawsuit brought by children and young adults in Montana listen to arguments during a May 12, 2023, court hearing in Helena, Mont. The office of Montana's Republican attorney general is appealing a landmark ruling in the case from a state judge who said officials weren’t doing enough to protect the plaintiffs from the harms of global warming. (Thom Bridge/Independent Record via AP, file)

Montana to appeal landmark climate change ruling that favored youth plaintiffs

By Amy Beth Hanson - Associated Press