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Construction crews bore beneath U.S. 221 in Roanoke County, Va., June 22, 2018, to make a tunnel through which the Mountain Valley Pipeline will pass under the highway. The state of West Virginia announced Monday, July 24, 2023, that it is appealing a ruling that blocked construction on a segment of the contentious natural gas pipeline being built through Virginia and West Virginia. (Heather Rousseau/The Roanoke Times via AP, File)

Appeals court dismisses motion challenging permits for Mountain Valley Pipeline

By John Raby - Associated Press

Vehicles are caught in a congestion during a rush hour in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021. Indonesian authorities are blaming the dry season and and motorized vehicles as the main causes of air pollution in Jakarta, after a Swiss air quality technology company named the city as the most polluted in the world. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim, File)

Jakarta is the world’s most polluted city. Blame the dry season and vehicles for the gray skies

By Edna Tarigan - Associated Press

Wildfire wreckage is shown Friday, Aug. 11, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii. Hawaii emergency management records show no indication that warning sirens sounded before people ran for their lives from wildfires on Maui that wiped out a historic town. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Death toll from Maui wildfires rises to 67 as survivors begin returning home to assess damage

By Claire Rush, Ty O'Neil and Jennifer Sinco Kelleher - Associated Press

FILE - A black plume rises over East Palestine, Ohio, as a result of a controlled detonation of a portion of the derailed Norfolk Southern trains, Feb. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

EPA weighs formal review of vinyl chloride, the toxic chemical that burned in Ohio train derailment

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

People struggle in the rain and wind as the tropical storm named Khanun approaches to the Korean Peninsular, in Busan, Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Tropical Storm Khanun drenches South Korea as it churns toward Seoul

By Kim Tong-Hyung, Yong Jun Chang and Ahn Young-Joon - Associated Press

Wildfire wreckage is shown Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii. The search of the wildfire wreckage on the Hawaiian island of Maui on Thursday revealed a wasteland of burned out homes and obliterated communities as firefighters battled the stubborn blaze making it the deadliest in the U.S. in recent years. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Death toll from Maui fires rises to 53, governor says, and more than 1,000 structures have burned

By Ty O'Neil, Audrey McAvoy, Jennifer Sinco Kelleher and Christopher Weber - Associated Press

This computer rendering provided by Louisiana's Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority depicts the planned Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion project, which, when completed in five years, will channel sediment-laden Mississippi River water into southeast Louisiana's Barataria Basin. The nearly $3 billion project is an attempt to mimic the natural building of delta wetlands that occurred for thousands of years before levees and flow-control structures were built in an effort to prevent flooding and hold the river on its current course. (Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority via AP)

A billion-dollar coastal project begins in Louisiana. Will it work as sea levels rise?

By Kevin McGill - Associated Press

Barges are seen beside reclamation sites in the rain in Manila bay, Philippines on Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2023, The United States expressed concerns over major reclamation projects near its heavily secured embassy, which sits on one edge of Manila Bay, due to the involvement of a blacklisted Chinese company, the U.S. Embassy said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Philippine president suspends 22 land reclamation projects in Manila Bay after U.S. airs concerns

By Jim Gomez - Associated Press

The hall of historic Waiola Church in Lahaina and nearby Lahaina Hongwanji Mission are engulfed in flames along Wainee Street on Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii. (Matthew Thayer/The Maui News via AP)

At least 36 killed on Maui as fires burn through Hawaii and thousands race to escape

By Audrey Mcavoy, Jennifer Sinco Kelleher and Nick Perry - Associated Press

A wildfire burns in Kihei, Hawaii late Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023. Thousands of residents raced to escape homes on Maui as blazes swept across the island, destroying parts of a centuries-old town in one of the deadliest U.S. wildfires in recent years. (AP Photo/Ty O'Neil)

Biden signs major emergency declaration for Hawaii after shocking wildfires

By Jeff Mordock and Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

'Climate Uncertainty and Risk' by Judith A. Curry (book cover)

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Climate Uncertainty and Risk: Rethinking Our Response’

By Anthony J. Sadar

FILE - A solar farm sits in Mona, Utah, on Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. The Biden administration is announcing Thursday, April 20, 2023, more than $80 million in funding as part of a push to make more solar panels in the U.S. and make solar energy available in more communities. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Renewable energy policies fueled by lies, pixie dust and your money

By Tim Constantine

Wildfire wreckage is shown Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii. The search of the wildfire wreckage on the Hawaiian island of Maui on Thursday revealed a wasteland of burned out homes and obliterated communities as firefighters battled the stubborn blaze making it the deadliest in the U.S. in recent years. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Maui surveys the burned wreckage caused by the deadliest U.S. wildfire in years

By Audrey McAvoy, Jennifer Sinco Kelleher and Nick Perry - Associated Press

This undated file photo provided by The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows a vaquita porpoise. Mexico announced in the first week of March 2023, that it is seeking to avoid potential trade sanctions for failing to stop the near-extinction of the vaquita, the world’s smallest porpoise and most endangered marine mammal. Studies estimate there may be as few as eight vaquitas remaining in the Gulf of California, the only place they exist and where they often become entangled in illegal gill nets and drown. (Paula Olson/NOAA via AP File)

Vaquita porpoise faces extinction, warns whaling group

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Nuclear’s history is even longer

K-pop group ATBO performs during a K-Pop concert after the closing ceremony of the World Scout Jamboree at the World Cup Stadium in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Aug. 11, 2023. Flights and trains resumed and power was mostly restored Friday after a tropical storm blew through South Korea, which was preparing a pop concert for 40,000 Scouts whose global Jamboree was disrupted by the weather. (Korea Pool via AP)

Tropical storm weakens after leaving scattered damage in South Korea, which turns to Scout concert

By Kim Tong-hyung - Associated Press

Oil sits in containers at a facility on public lands south of Duchesne, Utah on Thursday, July 13, 2023. Uinta Basin Railway, one of the United States’ biggest rail investment in more than a century, could be an 88-mile line in Utah that would run through tribal lands and national forest to move oil and gas to the national rail network. Critics question investing billions in oil and gas infrastructure as the country seeks to use less of the fossil fuels that worsen climate change. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Utah’s multibillion-dollar oil train proposal chugs along amid environment and derailment concerns

By Sam Metz - Associated Press

A plastic tent, right, covers a cleaning apparatus in Reactor Block 2 of the Paks Nuclear Power Plant to catch a small amount of still leaking radioactive gas in Paks, Hungary, about 90 kilometers (56 miles) south of Budapest on Tuesday, April 22, 2003. Hungary, which maintains close ties to Russia, is fully dependent on Moscow to provide fuel for its four-reactor nuclear power plant. (Tibor Illyes/MTI via AP, File)

Putin profits off U.S. and European reliance on Russian nuclear fuel

By Martha Mendoza and Dasha Litvinova - Associated Press

A flooded area is seen in Crna na Koroskem, Slovenia, Sunday, Aug. 6, 2023. The floods were caused by torrential rains on Friday which caused rivers to swell swiftly and burst into houses, fields and towns. Slovenia's weather service said a month's worth of rain fell in less than a day. Experts say extreme weather conditions are partly fueled by climate change. (AP Photo)

EU leader visits flood-ravaged Slovenia to discuss help in rebuilding

Associated Press

This photo provided by North Slope Borough Search and Rescue shows an aerial view of a shallow lake where a helicopter crashed on Alaska's North Slope near Utqiagvik, Alaska, on July 20, 2023. A helicopter that crashed on Alaska’s remote and vast North Slope in July, killing three state scientists and the pilot, stopped sending flight-status data to a real-time tracking system as it passed over the southeastern shoreline of an Arctic lake, according to a preliminary report on the crash released Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023. (North Slope Borough Search and Rescue via AP, File)

Federal report sheds new light on Alaska helicopter crash that killed 3 scientists, pilot

By Mark Thiessen - Associated Press