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In this photo provided by U.S. Embassy, U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel, left, eats a local fig at JA farmer’s market in Soma city, Fukushima prefecture, Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023. U.S. Ambassador Emanuel visited a northern Fukushima city Thursday and had seafood lunch with the mayor, talked to fishermen and stocked up on local produce at a grocery store to show they're all safe after the release of treated radioactive wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi plant to the sea, backing Japan effort while criticizing China's ban on Japanese seafood as political.(U.S. Embassy via AP)

U.S. envoy visits Fukushima to eat fish, criticize China’s seafood ban over wastewater release

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

In this photo taken from video and released by Roscosmos State Space Corporation, the Soyuz-2.1b rocket with the moon lander Luna-25 automatic station takes off from a launch pad at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia's Far East, on Friday, Aug. 11, 2023. The failure of the robotic Luna-25 probe, which crashed onto the surface of the moon over the weekend, reflects the endemic problems that have dogged the Russian space industry since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union. (Roscosmos State Space Corporation via AP, File)

Top Russian space scientist dies of mushroom poisoning

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

A car plunged into flood waters on Ocean Boulevard in North Myrtle Beach on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023 after the passage of Hurricane Idalia. (Jason Lee/The Sun News via AP)

Tropical Storm Idalia descends on North Carolina after pounding Florida, Georgia and South Carolina

By Terry Spencer - Associated Press

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)

Global warming doomsayers fail to heed hurricane science

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan speaks at the University of Maryland, May 11, 2023, in College Park, Md. Regan said he fully supports his agency's decision to block a proposed gold and copper mine in Alaska's salmon-rich Bristol Bay in a telephone interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard, File)

EPA head says he’s ‘proud’ of decision to block Alaska mine and protect salmon-rich Bristol Bay

By Mark Thiessen - 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)

Death toll from Legionnaires’ disease rises to 16 in southeast Poland close to Ukraine border

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A better path for EVs

Typhoon Saola strengthens as it passes Taiwan on its way to China

By Huizhong Wu - Associated Press

The first test of the national wireless emergency system by the Federal Emergency Management Agency is shown on a cellular phone at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018. About 225 million electronic devices across the United States received alerts from FEMA Wednesday afternoon. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) **FILE**

Nationwide emergency alert testing for cellphones, radio and television to be held in October

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

In this photo provided by Cabinet Public Affairs Office, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida eats the seafood from Fukushima prefecture at lunch at the prime minister's office in Tokyo, Japan, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023. (Cabinet Public Affairs Office via AP)

Japanese ministers eat Fukushima fish to show it’s safe after nuclear plant wastewater is discharged

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Migrants disembark from a Greek coast vessel after a rescue operation, at the port of Mytilene, on the northeastern Aegean Sea island of Lesbos, Greece, Monday, Aug. 28, 2023. Greek authorities say four people died and 18 were rescued Monday after a boat carrying migrants apparently sank northeast of the Greek island of Lesbos, which lies near the Turkish coast. (AP Photo/Panagiotis Balaskas)

About 150 migrants rescued from two sailboats off western Greece and in the Aegean Sea

Associated Press

FILE - A tower stands at Pelican Bay State Prison outside of Crescent City, Calif. The Northern California prison was on generator power for a second week and inmates were issued masks to cope with unhealthy air after wildfires knocked out electricity and choked the remote region with smoke. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

California prison on generator power after wildfires knock out electricity and fill cells with smoke

By Christopher Weber - Associated Press

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. Feeding on some of the hottest water on the planet, Hurricane Idalia is expected to rapidly strengthen as it bears down on Florida and the rest of the Gulf Coast, scientists said. (NOAA via AP)

Live updates | Hurricane Idalia heads into Georgia

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People kayak past an abandon vehicle in the intersection of Boca Ciega Drive and Pasadena Avenue Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023 in St. Pete Beach, Fla., Hurricane Idalia made landfall Wednesday in Florida as a Category 3 storm and unleashed devastation along a wide stretch of the Gulf Coast, submerging homes and vehicles, turning streets into rivers, unmooring small boats and downing power lines in an area that has never before received such a pummeling. (Chris Urso/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Hurricane Idalia hits Florida with 125 mph winds, flooding streets, snapping trees and cutting power

By Terry Spencer - Associated Press

This photo provided by Red Antler Processing shows the alligator sport hunting team made up of, from left, Tanner White, tag-holder Donald Woods, Will Thomas and Joey Clark as they hoist, with the help of a forklift, the longest alligator officially harvested in Mississippi, Saturday, Aug. 26, 2023, at Red Antler Processing in Yazoo City, Miss. The male alligator weighed 802.5 pounds and measured 14 feet, 3 inches long, and its length broke the state record as the longest alligator ever caught, according to the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks. (Shane Smith/Red Antler Processing via AP)

Longest alligator in Mississippi history captured by hunters

Associated Press

Zeke Pierce rides his paddle board down the middle of a flooded Bayshore Blvd in downtown in Tampa, Fla., Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023. Hurricane Idalia steamed toward Florida’s Big Bend region Wednesday morning, threatening deadly storm surges and destructive winds in an area not accustomed to such pummeling. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

Hurricane Idalia hammers areas of Florida and Georgia, now a Category 1 storm

By Daniel Kozin - Associated Press

Homes are under construction near wetlands, left, in Oak Island, N.C., Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023. The Biden Administration weakened protections for wetlands on Tuesday, a win for developers and agricultural groups in some states. (AP Photo/Karl B DeBlaker)

States at the forefront of fights over wetlands protections after justices slash federal rules

By John Flesher and Michael Phillis - Associated Press

FILE - Three wind turbines stand in the water off Block Island, R.I, the nation's first offshore wind farm, Aug. 15, 2016. In a first-of-its kind auction for the Gulf of Mexico, a company bid $5.6 million Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023 to lease federal waters off the Louisiana coast for wind energy generation. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)

$5.6 million bid for one offshore tract marks modest start for Gulf of Mexico wind energy

By Kevin McGill - Associated Press

FILE - A turtle pokes its nose out of the water in the wetlands inside Sugar Hollow Park in Bristol, Va., June 12, 2023. The Biden administration weakened regulations protecting millions of acres of wetlands Tuesday, Aug. 29, saying it had no choice after the Supreme Court sharply limited the federal government’s jurisdiction over them. (Emily Ball/Bristol Herald Courier via AP, File)

After Supreme Court curtails federal power, Biden administration weakens clean water protections

By Michael Phillis, Matthew Daly and John Flesher - Associated Press

Volunteer firefighters park their fire truck during a daily routine maintenance, in the northern suburb of Nea Erithrea, Athens, Greece, Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023. Greece is plagued by hundreds of wildfires each summer. To protect their area from potentially deadly blazes, a group of residents from a suburb in northern Athens have joined forces to hire a company using long-range drones equipped with thermal imaging cameras and a sophisticated early warning system to catch fires before they can spread. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

To stop wildfires, residents in some Greek suburbs put their own money toward early warning drones

By Elena Becatoros - Associated Press