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‘Fueling the future requires an all-of-the-above energy approach’

By Speaker Kevin McCarthy

Carbon (CO2) Capture and Storage Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Carbon capture and storage are a necessity

By John A. Rupp

People cool off at a fountain in front of the Pantheon, in Rome, Saturday, Aug. 19, 2023, where temperatures were expected to reach as high as 37 Celsius (98 Farenheit). This was the hottest summer on record across the globe, forcing many tourists to rethink how and where they travel. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, FIle)

How climate change could affect where and when people travel

By Sam Kemmis - Associated Press

FILE - Cars release exhaust fumes as children head to school in Frankfurt, Germany, Feb. 27, 2023. European Union member countries have watered down a proposal by the bloc's executive arm aimed at lowering vehicle emissions. The European Commission had proposed last year updated pollution standards for new combustion engine vehicles that are expected to remain on European roads well after the 27-nation bloc bans their sale in 2035, with the aim of lowering emissions from tailpipes, brakes and tires. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

EU member states weaken proposal setting new emission standards for cars and vans

By Samuel Petrequin - Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks during the U.S.-Pacific Island Country Summit at the State Department in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. Biden is set to establish diplomatic relations Monday, Sept. 25, with two South Pacific nations, the Cook Islands and Niue, as his administration aims to show to Pacific Island leaders that it is committed to increasing American presence in the region. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Biden tells Pacific islands leaders that he hears their warnings about climate change and will act

By Aamer Madhani and Will Weissert - Associated Press

Sydney Carney walks through her home, which was destroyed by a wildfire on Aug. 11, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii. Lahaina residents are grappling with a range of feelings as Maui authorities plan to begin allowing them back into what has become known as the "burn zone." (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Lahaina residents begin returning to sites of homes destroyed by deadly wildfire

By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher - Associated Press

U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm gestures as she speaks at the UN offices in Vienna, Monday Sept. 25, 2023. Granholm has emphasized the importance of nuclear fusion as a pioneering and future-oriented technology in the clean energy transition. As part of its clean-energy agenda, the Biden administration wants to "create a commercial nuclear fusion facility within 10 years," Granholm said in an interview with The Associated Press in Vienna. (AP Photo/Stephanie Liechtenstein)

AP Interview: Jennifer Granholm says U.S. aims to create nuclear fusion facility within 10 years

By Stephanie Liechtenstein - Associated Press

Illustration on hurricanes in New England by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Fewer hurricanes are hitting New England in era of ‘climate change’

By James Taylor

Illustration on climate crisis uncertainty by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Not so fast: Distinguished scientist shunned for saying climate crisis overblown

By Richard W. Rahn

Sweat covers the face of Juan Carlos Biseno after dancing to music from his headphones as afternoon temperatures reach 115 degrees Fahrenheit (46.1 Celsius), July 19, 2023, in Calexico, Calif. More Americans believe they've personally felt the impact of climate change because of recent extreme weather, including a summer that brought dangerous heat for much of the United States, according to new polling from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

After summer’s extreme weather, more Americans see climate change as a culprit, AP-NORC poll shows

By Tammy Webber and Linley Sanders - Associated Press

Derna flood survivor Abdul Salam Anwisi looks at the destroyed homes following flooding caused by Mediterranean storm Daniel, in Derna, Libya, Sunday, Sept. 17, 2023. Anwisi said he woke up at one-thirty in the morning to a loud scream from outside, to find his neighbours' homes flooded with water. He, his sons and other neighbours rushed to rescue the stranded families by pulling them from the roof of their house. Thousands of Libyans have lost family members, friends and neighbors in the devastating floods that engulfed the country's east. (AP Photo/Yousef Murad)

Libya’s top prosecutor jails 8 officials for potential negligence in the deadly collapse of dams

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

FILE - The Jingu Gaien park area is seen in central Tokyo, Sunday, Aug. 27, 2023. Tokyo's Jingu Gaien park area has been placed on a “Heritage Alert” list by a conservancy that assesses international monuments and historic sites. The body says the planned redevelopment will lead to “irreversible destruction of cultural heritage" with thousands of trees being felled. (AP Photo/Norihiro Haruta, File)

Opponents of a controversial Tokyo park redevelopment file a petition urging government to step in

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Smoke rises from a factory as a truck loaded with cars crosses a bridge in Paris, on Nov. 30, 2018. President Emmanuel Macron is to unveil France's approach and means to meet its climate-related commitments within the next seven years as a special government meeting is taking place on Monday, Sept. 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

France’s Macron to unveil latest plan for meeting climate-related commitments in the coming years

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FILE - Debris is scattered around the Pfizer facility, July 19, 2023, in Rocky Mount, N.C., after damage from severe weather. The major Pfizer pharmaceutical plant in North Carolina that makes critical supplies for U.S. hospitals has restarted production about 10 weeks after it was heavily damaged by a tornado, the company announced Monday, Sept. 25. (Travis Long/The News & Observer via AP, File)

Tornado-damaged Pfizer plant in North Carolina restarts production

Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks during the U.S.-Pacific Island Country Summit at the State Department in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. Biden is set to announce the opening of new U.S. embassies on Cook Islands and Niue on Monday, Sept. 25, 2023, as the Democratic administration aims to demonstrate to Pacific Island leaders that it remains committed to increasing American presence in the region. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

U.S. will establish diplomatic ties with the Cook Islands and Niue as Biden hosts Pacific leaders

By Aamer Madhani - Associated Press

The Virginia Beach Oceanfront shoreline is marked with sediment from the Atlantic Ocean detailing where the storm surge peaked during high tide as Tropical Storm Ophelia makes her track north on Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023, in Virginia Beach, Va. (AP Photo/John C. Clark)

North Carolina, Virginia hit by Ophelia as storm weakens to tropical depression and moves north

By Brian Witte and Jonathan Mattise - Associated Press

This Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023, 8:16 am EST satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Tropical Storm Ophelia making landfall in North Carolina. (NOAA via AP)

Tropical Storm Ophelia moves inland over North Carolina as coastal areas lashed with wind and rain

By Sarah Brumfield and Brian Witte - Associated Press

A rig and supply vessel are pictured in the Gulf of Mexico off the cost of Louisiana, April 10, 2011. A federal judge has ordered the Interior Department to expand next week’s scheduled sale of Gulf of Mexico oil and gas leases by millions of acres. The Thursday, Sept. 22, 2023, ruling rejected a scaled-back plan announced last month by the Biden administration as part of an effort to protect an endangered whale species. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Judge blocks government plan to scale back Gulf oil lease sale to protect whale species

By Kevin McGill - Associated Press

FILE - A long row of double-stacked shipping contrainers provide a new wall between the United States and Mexico in the remote section area of San Rafael Valley, Ariz., Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022. Two federal lawsuits filed over former Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey’s decision last year to place thousands of shipping containers along the U.S.-Mexico border have been dismissed after the state said it would pay the U.S. Forest Service $2.1 million to repair environmental damage. The Sept. 15, 2023, dismissal of the cases in U.S. District Court ends the fight over the double-stacked containers that were placed as a makeshift border wall. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

The fight over Arizona’s shipping container border wall ends with dismissal of federal lawsuits

Associated Press

FILE - Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge maintenance crew leader Pete Chesser, right, crew member Walker Huling, left, pile their pruned vegetation along a wilderness water trail, Tuesday, April 5, 2022, in Folkston, Ga. A U.S. agency says it will nominate the Okefenokee Swamp's vast wildlife refuge for a place on the official list of the world's most treasured natural and cultural sites. The National Park Service filed a notice Friday, Sept. 22, 2023, that it will seek a UNESCO World Heritage site designation for the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton, File)

U.S. to nominate Okefenokee Swamp refuge for listing as UNESCO World Heritage site

By Russ Bynum - Associated Press