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This Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023, satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Hurricane Lee, right, off in the central tropical Atlantic Ocean. (NOAA via AP)

Hurricane Lee could become first Category 5 storm of the Atlantic season, forecasters warn

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Monkey testing could lead to pandemic

A young person runs through the Great Salt Lake on June 15, 2023, near Magna, Utah. A coalition of environmental organizations sued the state of Utah on Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023, based on accusations that it is not doing enough make sure enough water gets to the shrinking Great Salt Lake. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

The Great Salt Lake is shrinking rapidly and Utah has failed to stop it, a new lawsuit says

By Jesse Bedayn - Associated Press

A Tacoma Power crew works at an electrical substation damaged by vandals early on Christmas morning after cutting a padlock to gain entry, according to a crew manager, Dec. 25, 2022, in Graham, Wash. Two men pleaded guilty to vandalizing power substations in Washington state in attacks that left thousands without power on Christmas Day. Jeremy Crahan admitted Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023, that he and Matthew Greenwood, who pleaded guilty in April to conspiracy to destroy energy facilities, conspired to cut electrical power in order to break into ATM machines and businesses and steal money. (Ken Lambert/The Seattle Times via AP, File)

2 men plead guilty to vandalizing power substations in Washington state on Christmas Day

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Vehicles line up to leave the Burning Man festival in Black Rock Desert, Nev., Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023. The traffic jam leaving the festival eased up considerably Tuesday as the exodus from the mud-caked Nevada desert entered a second day following massive rain that left tens of thousands of partygoers stranded there for days. (Monique Sady via AP)

Burning Man is ending, but the cleanup from heavy flooding is far from over

By Ed Komenda, Gabe Stern and Scott Sonner - Associated Press

Huge mining trucks costing $1.1 million each are set to begin moving ore containing lithium to a processing plant at a controversial mine in northern Nevada. (Photo by Bill Gertz/The Washington Times)

A new era: Construction of strategic lithium processing plant kicks off

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland speaks during a groundbreaking ceremony for the SunZia transmission line project in Corona, N.M. on Friday, Sept. 1, 2023. Haaland said the Bureau of Land Management consistently sought collaboration to develop the best possible route for the line. (Jon Austria/The Albuquerque Journal via AP) **FILE**

Biden cancels all oil, gas drilling leases in Alaskan Arctic wildlife refuge

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

A general view of a wind farm, in England, Oct. 6, 2021. Britain’s government is relaxing planning rules and lifting restrictions that have effectively banned new onshore wind farms from being built in England. Under rules introduced in 2015 by former Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron, a single objection to a wind turbine application would block its development. (Tom Leese/PA via AP, File)

UK government lifts de facto ban on onshore wind farms

By Sylvia Hui - Associated Press

Republican presidential candidates, from left, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former Vice President Mike Pence, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum stand on stage before a Republican presidential primary debate hosted by FOX News Channel Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Competing energy plans from GOP White House hopefuls would boost domestic oil, nuclear power

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

In this photo provided by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority, a partially submerged catamaran is shown during a rescue of 3 sailors in the Coral Sea, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023. Three sailors from Russia and France were rescued on Wednesday after the inflatable catamaran they were trying to navigate from Vanuatu to Australia came under attack from sharks, authorities said. (Australian Maritime Safety Authority via AP)

3 sailors from Russia and France are rescued off Australian coast after sharks attacked their boat

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A delegate walk in front of a mural outside the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) in Nairobi, Kenya Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023, during the Africa Climate Summit. The summit's opening speeches included clear calls to reform the global financial structures that have left African nations paying about five times more to borrow money than others, worsening the debt crisis for many. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

African Climate Summit issues unanimous call for world leaders to support global tax on fossil fuels

By Cara Anna - Associated Press

Vehicles are scattered during floods after heavy rains in Istanbul, Turkey, early Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023. Fierce rainstorms battered neighboring Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria on Tuesday, triggering flooding that caused at least seven deaths, including two holidaymakers swept away by a torrent that raged through a campsite in northwestern Turkey. (Sercan Ozkurnazli/Dia Images via AP)

The death toll from fierce storms and flooding in Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria rises to 11

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A home stands destroyed by a deadly cyclone in Mucum, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023. An extratropical cyclone in southern Brazil caused floods in several cities. (AP Photo/Wesley Santos)

Flooding in southern Brazil leaves at least 31 dead and 2,300 homeless

By Wesley Santos and Diane Jeantet - Associated Press

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan speaks at the University of Maryland, May 11, 2023, in College Park, Md. The EPA is delaying plans to tighten air quality standards for ground-level ozone — better known as smog — despite a recommendation by a scientific advisory panel to lower air pollution limits to protect public health. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard, File)

Environmental Protection Agency delays new ozone pollution standards until after the 2024 election

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

Climate change warrior illustration by Linas Garsys

Climate-change hysteria and the rise of the religious left

By Anthony J. Sadar

Belongings float in the water after a storm, on the beach in Arapya, Bulgaria, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023. Bulgaria's Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov said two people died and three others were missing after a storm caused floods on the country's southern Black Sea coast. (AP Photo/Milena Genadieva)

At least 6 people die as severe rainstorms trigger flooding in Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria

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This Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023, 1:31 p.m. EDT satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Hurricane Idalia, center, approaching Florida's Gulf Coast, and Hurricane Franklin, right, as it moves along the East coast of the United States, southwest of Bermuda. (NOAA via AP)

Florida’s reasonable response to Hurricane Idalia

By Richard W. Rahn

Kenya's President William Ruto speaks at Kenyatta International Conference Centre in Nairobi, Kenya Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023, during the Africa Climate Summit. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Kenya’s leader says climate change is eating away Africa’s GDP, calls for talks on global carbon tax

By CAra Anna and Evelyne Musambi - Associated Press

A worker checks the plants used to decorate main lobby of Jakarta Convention Center, the venue for the Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, Sept. 4, 2023. Indonesian President Joko Widodo will welcome fellow Asian and world leaders with a captivating jungle scene of a two-story waterfall, wild orchids and even an orangutan perched up a tree. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

An orangutan, chirping birds and a waterfall at ASEAN venue contrast to Jakarta’s pollution outside

By Edna Tarigan and Niniek Karmini - Associated Press

This 1978 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows Legionella pneumophila bacteria which are responsible for causing the pneumonic disease Legionnaires' disease. Poland's internal security officers were searching for the source of a deadly outbreak of Legionnaires' disease which has killed seven people and infected more than 100 others in the strategic city of Rzeszow, near the border with Ukraine, authorities said Friday, Aug. 25, 2023. (Francis Chandler/CDC via AP, File)

Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in southeast Poland on decline with only 1 new case reported

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