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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

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

Illustration on EV batteries by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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

By Brian McNicoll

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

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

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

The Biden administration’s offshore wind junk heap

By Robert Henneke

A general view of the city of Derna is seen on Tuesday, Sept. 12., 2023. Mediterranean storm Daniel caused devastating floods in Libya that broke dams and swept away entire neighborhoods in multiple coastal towns, the destruction appeared greatest in Derna city. (AP Photo/Jamal Alkomaty)

The flood death toll in eastern Libya’s city of Derna has surpassed 5,100, a health official says

By Samy Magdy and Yousef Murad - Associated Press

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

FILE - This Oct. 30, 2002 file photo shows a speed boat passing by offshore windmills in the North Sea offshore from near Esbjerg, Denmark. On Wednesday Feb. 5, 2014, Oregon's Governor, John Kitzhaber and other officials announced plans to develop a similar farm, as the West Coast’s first offshore wind energy farm. (AP Photo/Heribert Proepper, file)

Powering inflation: Reliance on windmills drives up the cost of everything

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

A chicken grazes inside a home that was damaged by the earthquake, in the town of Imi N'tala, outside Marrakech, Morocco, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

International crews in Moroccan to recover bodies days after deadly 6.8 quake earthquake struck

By Sam Metz and Mosa'ab Elshamy - Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson to mark the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Monday, Sept. 11, 2023, in Anchorage, Alaska. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden betrays Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

By Rick Whitbeck

An aerial photo shows the Ocean Explorer, a Bahamas-flagged Norwegian cruise ship with 206 passengers and crew, which has run aground in northwestern Greenland, on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. The 104.4-meter (343-foot) long and 18-meter (60 foot) wide Ocean Explorer ran aground on Monday in Alpefjord in the Northeast Greenland National Park. It's the world’s largest and most northerly national park and is known for icebergs and the musk oxen that roam the coast. According to authorities no one on board was in danger and no damage has been reported. (Danish Air Force/Joint Arctic Command via AP)

Fishery vessel will try to pull free cruise ship with 206 people on board in Greenland

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In this photo provided by the Libyan government, a car sits partly suspended in trees after being carried by floodwaters in Derna, Libya, on Monday, Sept. 11, 2023. Mediterranean storm Daniel caused devastating floods in Libya that broke dams and swept away entire neighborhoods and wrecked homes in multiple coastal towns in the east of the North African nation. As many as 2,000 people were feared dead one of the country's leaders said. (Libyan government handout via AP)

Rescuers retrieve hundreds of bodies in eastern Libya as 10,000 reported missing in deadly floods

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

The Lavender pit mine, where a copper operation stopped in 1974, sits outside Bisbee, Ariz., on May 12, 2019. National conservation groups, tribes and others in Nevada are up in arms over a pro-mining bill Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., introduced this week. It would insulate mining companies from a U.S. appeals court ruling that blocked a copper mine in Arizona and is now part of a legal battle over a big lithium mine near the Nevada-Oregon line. Allies on most other conservation issues, environmentalists are accusing Cortez Masto of becoming a puppet for the mining industry. (AP Photo/Anita Snow, File)

Biden plan would overhaul 151-year-old mining law, make companies pay royalties for copper and gold

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

Pump jacks work in a field near Lovington, N.M., April 24, 2015. The Biden administration is proposing new rules for the nation’s oil and gas leasing program that would raise costs for energy companies to drill on public lands and strengthen requirements for cleaning up old wells where drilling is completed or abandoned. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) **FILE**

American oil producers set to break records despite Biden’s climate agenda

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

A man on a scooter drives past rubble and a damaged road sign pointing to Marrakech in Talat N'yakoub, Morocco, Monday Sept. 11, 2023. More than 2,000 people were killed, and the toll was expected to rise as rescuers struggled to reach hard-hit remote areas after a powerful earthquake struck Morocco. (Fernando Sanchez/Europa Press via AP)

What to know about the Morocco earthquake and the efforts to help

By Sam Metz - Associated Press

The European flag, left, flies Tuesday, April 18, 2023, at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France. European Union lawmakers endorsed a deal Tuesday to raise the share of renewables in the bloc’s energy mix, another step to accelerate its green transition away from fossil fuels. The bill, adopted by a large majority — 470 lawmakers voted in favor, 120 against and 40 abstained — foresees an updated renewable energy target of 42.5% of total consumption by 2030. The current goal is 32%. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias, File)

EU lawmakers approve a deal to raise renewable energy target to 42.5% of total consumption by 2030

Associated Press

FILE - Dredge Jadwin, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredging vessel, powers south down the Mississippi River, Oct. 19, 2022, past Commerce, Mo. Diverting Mississippi River water to states struggling with water scarcity isn't a new idea. But mayors along the river may soon be voting to support a compact that could block such a diversion. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

Dry states taking Mississippi River water isn’t a new idea. But some mayors want to kill it

By Michael Phillis and Jim Salter - Associated Press

In this April 2, 2003 file photo, boxes of Marshmallow Peeps are lined up at the Just Born factory in Bethlehem, Pa. The Bethlehem, Pa.,-based Just Born confections company said its production facilities there and in Philadelphia closed Wednesday, March 25, 2020, through April 7. The company says it had already produced and shipped the Easter supply of its signature marshmallow confection to outlets.(AP Photo/Rick Smith, File)

California lawmakers OK bills banning certain chemicals in foods and drinks

By Adam Beam and Sophie Austin - Associated Press

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm gets into the passenger seat after test driving a Ford F-150 Lighting all-electric vehicle during a visit to the Washington Auto Show in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023. Sec. Granholm’s four-day EV trip this summer through the southeast ran into charging woes for her caravan of three EVs, according to NPR, which was along for the ride. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Energy Secretary Granholm’s EV road trip turns into a charging station debacle

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times