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A flooded area is seen in Ravne na Koroskem, some 60 km (38 miles) northeast of Ljubljana, Slovenia, Friday, Aug. 4, 2023. Heavy rains caused flash floods and landslides in parts of Slovenia, blocking roads and bridges, flooding buildings and forcing evacuations on Friday. Slovenia's environmental agency, ARSO, raised the weather alert to the highest level after a month's amount of rain fell within 24 hours in northern, northwestern and central parts of the country. (AP Photo/Gregor Ravnjak)

3 people killed in Slovenia by torrential storms and flash floods

By Ali Zerdin - Associated Press

FILE - A line of electric cars and newly installed charging stations sit in front of the Portland General Electric headquarters building on July 28, 2015, in Portland, Ore. Policymakers for the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality on Monday, Dec. 19, 2022, approved a rule that prohibits the sale of new gasoline-powered passenger vehicles in Oregon by 2035. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, File)

Biden admin accelerating the electric car fad

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

Tiembe, a 15-year-old Angolan lion, licks his frozen breakfast, chunks of red meat and bone packed in a block of ice, at the Attica Zoological Park in Spata suburb, eastern Athens, Friday, Aug. 4, 2023. A large number of animals being fed frozen meals at the Attica Zoological Park outside the Greek capital Friday, as temperatures around the country touched 40C (104 degrees Fahrenheit) and were set to rise further, in the fourth heat wave in less than a month. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Greek zoo serves up frozen meals to animals to help them beat the heat

By Derek Gatopoulos - Associated Press

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Building is shown in Washington, Sept. 21, 2017. The former head of a federal agency that investigates chemical accidents improperly spent more than $90,000 during her tenure, including unauthorized trips to and from her California home, remodeling her Washington office and outside media training for herself, according to a new report by a federal watchdog. The report by the EPA’s inspector general says Katherine Lemos, the former chair of the U.S. Chemical Safety Board, was not entitled to travel expenses for at least 18 round trips to the capital from her home in San Diego from April 2020 through March 2022. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Rancher in Washington state to pay Environmental Protection Agency $50,000 for illegal dam

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

In this May 14, 2013, file photo, the Department of Justice headquarters building in Washington is photographed early in the morning. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

California truck parts company pleads guilty to making and selling emissions ‘defeat devices’

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

In this photo provided by Greenpeace activists pose with a protest poster in front of the manor house of Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in Yorkshire, England, Thursday, Aug. 3, 2023. Greenpeace demonstrators have drapped the country estate of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in black fabric to protest his announcement this week to expand oil drilling in the North Sea. (Luca Marino/Greenpeace via AP)

Greenpeace demonstrators drape U.K. prime minister’s house in black to protest oil expansion

By Brian Melley - Associated Press

Burned landscape from the York Fire in the Mojave National Preserve on Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023, in Nipton, Calif. The York Fire was partially contained by Tuesday morning after the blaze ignited Friday in a California wildland preserve and spread into Nevada. (AP Photo/Ty O'Neil)

California’s iconic Joshua trees threatened in massive wildfire

By Ty O'Neil, Stefanie Dazio and Rio Yamat - Associated Press

A pump jack extracts oil at a drilling site next to homes June 9, 2021, in Signal Hill, Calif. Environmental advocates in California will try to enshrine a law banning new gas and oil wells near homes, schools and hospitals in a move that comes as the oil industry is vying for voters to overturn it. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

California Supreme Court says county can’t enforce new oil ban

By Sophie Austin - Associated Press

Manager Nick Reynoza holds a 100-watt incandescent light bulb at Royal Lighting in Los Angeles, Jan. 21, 2011. New federal rules governing the energy efficiency of lighting systems went into full effect Tuesday, effectively ending the sale and manufacture of bulbs that trace their origin to an 1880 Thomas Edison patent. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Prepare to flick off your incandescent bulbs for good under new U.S. rules that kicked in this week

By David Hamilton - 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)

U.S. is concerned with blacklisted Chinese firm’s hand in island-building near its Manila embassy

By Jim Gomez - Associated Press

Residents evacuate on boats moving through floodwaters in Zhuozhou in northern China's Hebei province, south of Beijing, Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2023. China's capital has recorded its heaviest rainfall in at least 140 years over the past few days. Among the hardest hit areas is Zhuozhou, a small city that borders Beijing's southwest. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Beijing records 29 inches of rain from Saturday to Wednesday, its most in at least 140 years

By Andy Wong and Huizhong Wu - Associated Press

A vehicle drives down Nipton Road, as rain falls over the York Fire, Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023, in Nipton, Calif. A brief but heavy downpour helped firefighters battling a massive blaze in California and Nevada, but meteorologists warned of the potential for sudden and erratic wind shifts that could endanger crews. (AP Photo/Ty O'Neil)

Progress made against massive California-Nevada wildfire, but flames may burn iconic Joshua trees

By Ty O’Neil and Stefanie Dazio And Rio Yamat - Associated Press

This shows a rainstorm brought by Typhoon Khanun in Naha, Okinawa prefecture, southern Japan Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2023. The powerful typhoon slammed Okinawa and other islands in southwestern Japan with high winds, damaging homes and forcing transportation to halt and stores to close as it slowly moved west. (Kyodo News via AP)

A powerful typhoon pounds Japan’s Okinawa and injures more than 20 people as it moves toward China

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

A Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply spacecraft is on its way to the International Space Station, after it was launched from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Tuesday night.

Cargo spacecraft on way to International Space Station

Nuclear Pilgrim J. Robert Oppenheimer Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

U.S. nuclear power leadership started with Oppenheimer

By Rep. Jeff Duncan

Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis gestures during a campaign event, Monday, July 31, 2023, in Rochester, N.H. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Cracks emerge among GOP support for combating ESG investing

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

A gray wolf is pictured on July 16, 2004, at the Wildlife Science Center in Forest Lake, Minn. Wisconsin wildlife officials released a revised draft wolf management plan Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023, that recommends holding the statewide population at around 1,000 animals, a concession to conservatives looking for a hard limit. (AP Photo/Dawn Villella, File)

Wisconsin officials add recommendations to new management plan to keep wolf population around 1,000

By Todd Richmond - Associated Press

Residents look over an area inundated by flood waters in Miaofengshan on the outskirts of Beijing, Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023. Chinese state media report some have died and others are missing amid flooding in the mountains surrounding the capital Beijing. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

At least 20 dead and 27 missing in floods surrounding China’s capital Beijing, thousands evacuated

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Illustration about the rise of Cholera cases. (Illustration/Amelia Bates, Grist via AP)

As climate change leads to more and wetter storms, cholera cases are on the rise

By Blanca Begert and Grist - Associated Press