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This Friday, Sept. 15, 2023, 3:11 p.m. EDT satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Hurricane Lee, right, near New England and Eastern Canada. A tropical storm warning extended from Maine through Massachusetts, with powerful gusts forecast to arrive late in the day in southern New England. Maine and coastal Nova Scotia and New Brunswick are expected to see the brunt of the storm's remnants on Saturday. (NOAA via AP)

Hurricane Lee targets New England and eastern Canada with wind, roiling seas and rain

By David Sharp, Robert F. Butaky and Patrick Whittle - Associated Press

FILE - A tractor collects straw on a field in a private farm in Zhurivka, Kyiv region, Ukraine, Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023. The European Union faces a Friday, Sept. 15, 2023, deadline to decide whether to extend a ban on Ukrainian food from five nearby countries that have complained the influx has hurt their farmers. But they still allow grain and other products to head to parts of the world in need. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

EU faces deadline on extending Ukrainian grain ban as countries threaten to pass their own

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Al Gore, former vice-President of the United States and Chairman and Co-Founder of Generation Investment Management, reacts during the 53rd annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Switzerland, Tuesday, January 17, 2023. The meeting brings together entrepreneurs, scientists, corporate and political leaders in Davos under the topic "Cooperation in a Fragmented World" from 16 to 20 January. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP)

Al Gore and illegitimacy: No one voted for net-zero emissions by 2035

By Michael McKenna

Protesters wear plastic sheets as they join the global march to end fossil fuel on Friday, Sept. 15, 2023, in Quezon city, Philippines. Tens of thousands of climate activists around the world are set to march, chant and protest Friday to call for an end to the burning of planet-warming fossil fuels as the globe continues to suffer dramatic weather extremes and topple heat records. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Climate protesters around the world are calling for an end to fossils fuels as Earth heats up

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Vehicles carrying DF-17 ballistic missiles roll during a parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the founding of Communist China in Beijing, Oct. 1, 2019. China said Friday, April 14, 2023, that it carried out a successful ground-based mid-course missile interception test in an apparent sign of progress in its ability to bring down weapons incoming from space. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Pentagon to build space weapons, new strategy reveals

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Davis & Tripp Marina and Boat Yard crews pull a sailboat named Hurricane from the waters of Padanaram Harbor in Dartmouth, Mass., Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023 in preparation for the possible arrival of Hurricane Lee. (Peter Pereira/The Standard-Times via AP)

Hurricane Lee to strike weather-worn New England after heavy rain, flooding and tornadoes

By David Sharp and Patrick Whittle - Associated Press

Flooding aftermath is seen in Derna, Libya, Thursday, Sept.14, 2023. Search teams are combing streets, wrecked buildings, and even the sea to look for bodies in Derna, where the collapse of two dams unleashed a massive flash flood that killed thousands of people. (AP Photo/Yousef Murad)

Libya seals off flooded city so searchers can look for 10,000 missing after death toll passes 11,000

By Yousef Mourad - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack addresses a gathering at Fresh Start Food Hub & Market on June 15, 2023, in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Biden administration to provide over $1 billion in grant money for 385 environmental projects

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

FILE - A road bisects a wetland on June 20, 2019, near Kulm, N.D. States and Native American tribes will have greater authority to block energy projects such as natural gas pipelines that could pollute rivers and streams under a final rule issued Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023, by the Biden administration. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Biden administration restores the power of states and tribes to review projects to protect waterways

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

Land-based wind turbines in Atlantic City, N.J., turn on July 20, 2023. Two major offshore wind power projects are taking steps forward in New Jersey as the owners of one project agreed to bring the federal government in on their environmental monitoring plans at an earlier stage than has ever been done, and federal regulators said plans for another project are not expected to kill or seriously injure marine life. They come as New Jersey continues to grow as a hub of opposition to offshore wind projects from residents' groups and their political allies, mostly Republicans. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry, File)

Offshore wind energy plans advance in New Jersey amid opposition

By Wayne Parry - Associated Press

Illustration on EV batteries by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

We need to make electric vehicle batteries in the U.S.

By Brian McNicoll

A man views damage to a building caused by recent flooding, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023, at the Hilton & Cook Marketplace in Leominster, Mass. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

New England has been hit by a likely tornado. Hurricane Lee is up next

By Michael Casey and Kathy McCormack - Associated Press

People look for survivors in Derna, Libya, Wednesday, Sept.13, 2023. Search teams are combing streets, wrecked buildings, and even the sea to look for bodies in Derna, where the collapse of two dams unleashed a massive flash flood that killed thousands of people. (AP Photo/Yousef Murad)

Libyan city buries thousands in mass graves after flood, while mayor says death toll could triple

By Samy Magdy and Yousef Murad - Associated Press

Biden and offshore wind farms Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

The Biden administration’s offshore wind junk heap

By Robert Henneke

A view of the Ocean Explorer, a Bahamas-flagged Norwegian cruise ship with 206 passengers and crew, which has run aground in northwestern Greenland is pictured on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. (SIRIUS/Joint Arctic Command via AP)

Stranded luxury cruise ship MV Ocean Explorer has been pulled free at high tide in Greenland

By Jan M. Olsen - Associated Press

People queue to fill up containers with water in Tsoundzou, Mayotte island, Saturday, Feb.6, 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic. France is sending military forces to distribute water on the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte, which is facing an unprecedented water crisis prompted by the island's most severe drought in decades. Troops with the French Foreign Legion and French navy based in the region will work with local authorities to ensure water supplies to local populations, the Defense Ministry said in a statement Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/ Sony Ibrahim Chamsidine, File)

France sends the army to ensure water to drought-stricken Indian Ocean island of Mayotte

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An electric vehicle charging station stands in Asbury Park, N.J., March 21, 2022. Government pushes to move buildings and vehicles away from burning fossil fuels to help address climate change are generating pushback in New Jersey and around the nation, with opponents worried about the cost of switching. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)

House bucks Biden electric vehicle push with bill to safeguard gas-powered cars

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan speaks at the University of Maryland, May 11, 2023, in College Park, Md. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard) **FILE**

Biden’s rules on clean cars face a crucial test as Republican-led challenges go to an appeals court

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

Mass transit riders wear masks as they commute in the financial district of lower Manhattan, Tuesday, April 19, 2022, in New York. The rate of people working from home dropped from 17.9% in 2021 to 15.2% in 2022, according to new survey data released Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023, by the U.S. Census Bureau on life in America, covering commuting times internet access, family life, income, education levels, disabilities, military service and employment. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Census Bureau finds more Americans driving to work

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

In this photo made available by UME (Military Emergency Unit), members of the UME unit search for survivors under a collapsed building near Khair Anougal, Morocco, Monday, Sept. 11, 2023. (Spanish Defence Ministry, via AP)

Rescue teams are frustrated that Morocco did not accept more international help after earthquake

By John Leicester - Associated Press