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House Rules Committee Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., joined at left by Ranking Member Jim McGovern, D-Mass., speaks as the panel prepares a bill to reverse a Biden administration firearms-related regulation on so-called pistol braces, a stabilizing feature championed by some members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, June 12, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Stove wars: Republican-controlled House takes up bills to protect gas stoves

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

In this Nov. 7, 2018, photo, North Dakota Sen.-elect Kevin Cramer speaks at a post-election news conference in Bismarck after defeating incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp in the midterm election Tuesday. (Tom Stromme/The Bismarck Tribune via AP) **FILE**

Self-destructive Senate Republicans set the ground for economic and electoral disaster

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

A pump jack operates as the sun begins to set on the western horizon March 7, 2022, near Pleasant Farms, an unincorporated community in southeastern Ector County, Texas. House Republicans are set to approve a sprawling energy package that counters virtually all of President Joe Biden's agenda to address climate change. (Jacob Ford/Odessa American via AP)

House conservatives take aim at green energy spending, fossil fuels in budget proposal

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Carbon capture and clean hydrogen illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times

Carbon capture necessary to advance clean hydrogen economy

By Jillian Evanko

This photo shows power lines in Hanoi, Vietnam, on June 8, 2023. Vietnam has released a long-anticipated energy plan meant to take the country through the next decade and help meet soaring demand while reducing carbon emissions. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh)

Long-awaited Vietnam energy plan aims to boost renewables, but fossil fuels still in the mix

By Victoria Milko - Associated Press

Ethan Joseph, vineyard manager and head wine grower for Shelburne Vineyards in Shelburne, Vt., talks May 31, 2023, about damage to grapes from a late-season frost. Vineyards and apple orchards across the Northeast are still gauging damage from a late-season frost in May that wiped out a third to most of the crop for some growers who say it’s the worst frost damage they have ever seen. (AP Photo/Lisa Rathke)

Federal assistance sought for northeastern vineyards, orchards hit by late frost

By Lisa Rathke - Associated Press

A gas-lit flame burns on a natural gas stove on Jan. 11, 2006. The Republican-controlled House is taking up legislation that GOP lawmakers say would protect gas stoves from over-zealous government regulators. (AP Photo/Thomas Kienzle, File)

Bills to protect gas stoves clear GOP House with backing from dozens of Democrats

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Cars and trucks queue on a highway in Frankfurt, Germany, Wednesday, April 26, 2023. German officials said Wednesday, June 14, 2023, that an array of climate measures being introduced by the government will bring the country closer but not all the way toward meeting its national goals for cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

Germany says climate measures will narrow but not fully close the country’s emissions gap by 2030

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Mayon volcano belches hot emissions down its slope as seen from Daraga town, Albay province, northeastern Philippines, Wednesday, June 14, 2023. The 2,462-meter (8,077-foot) Mayon is a top tourist draw in the Philippines because of its picturesque conical shape but is the most active of 24 known volcanoes in the archipelago. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Philippine volcano’s eruption, which has displaced thousands, can last for months

By Jim Gomez and Joeal Calupitan - Associated Press

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Mariano Grossi speaks to media in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

U.N. nuclear chief says large Ukraine atomic power plant held by Russia faces ‘dangerous situation’

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

African cobalt, batteries and Blood of the Congo Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

‘Cobalt Red’: The price Africans pay so we can have better batteries

By Clifford D. May

This diagram made available by NASA shows the estimated trajectory of asteroid 2023 BU, in red, affected by the earth's gravity, and the orbit of geosynchronous satellites, in green. An asteroid (neither pictured nor referred to here) classified as potentially dangerous by NASA whizzed by Earth at 48,000 mph at 8:53 p.m. EDT Sunday. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Potentially hazardous asteroid passes Earth at 48,000 mph

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Aluminum more recyclable than plastic

A lifeguard stands during high tide at a deserted Juhu beach on the Arabian Sea cost in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, June 13, 2023. India and Pakistan braced for the first severe cyclone this year expected to hit their coastal regions later this week, as authorities on Monday halted fishing activities, deployed rescue personnel and announced evacuation plans for those at risk. From the Arabian Sea, Cyclone Biparjoy is aiming at Pakistan's southern Sindh province and the coastline of the western Indian state of Gujarat. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Thousands evacuated in India and Pakistan as Cyclone Biparjoy approaches

By Sibi Arasu and Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

Plaintiffs Mica, 14; Badge 15, Lander 18, and Taleah, 19, listen to arguments during a status hearing on May 12, 2023, in Helena, Mont., for a case that they and other Montana youth filed against the state arguing Montana officials are not meeting their constitutional obligations to protect residents from climate change. The first-of-its-kind trial begins Monday, June 12, 2023, before District Court Judge Kathy Seeley in Helena. It is scheduled to last for two weeks. (Thom Bridge/Independent Record via AP)

Young athlete in Montana climate change trial testifies he uses inhaler due to forest fire smoke

By Amy Beth Hanson and Matthew Brown - Associated Press

This June 24, 2010 file photo shows, the Palisades Nuclear Generating Station in Covert, Mich. Holtec Decommissioning International, a company that tears down closed nuclear power plants wants to do in Michigan what has never been done in the U.S.: restore a dead one to life. Activists who long criticized Palisades as poorly maintained and dangerous don't want it resurrected. (John Madill/The Herald-Palladium via AP) **FILE**

Look out for blackouts as electric grid grapples with shuttered power plants

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Plaintiffs Mica, 14; Badge 15, Lander 18, and Taleah, 19, listen to arguments during a status hearing on May 12, 2023, in Helena, Mont., for a case that they and other Montana youth filed against the state arguing Montana officials are not meeting their constitutional obligations to protect residents from climate change. The first-of-its-kind trial begins Monday, June 12, 2023, before District Court Judge Kathy Seeley in Helena. It is scheduled to last for two weeks. (Thom Bridge/Independent Record via AP)

Montana youth first to trial over whether state obligated to protect residents from climate change

By Amy Beth Hanson and Matthew Brown - Associated Press

A gas-lit flame burns on a natural gas stove, Jan. 11, 2006, in Stuttgart, Germany. New York state plans to ban natural gas stoves and furnaces in most new buildings, a policy aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions without making people replace their beloved cooking equipment. (AP Photo/Thomas Kienzle, File)

Biden urges court to allow local ban on new gas stoves in Berkeley, California

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Firefighters and construction crews work near the aftermath of an elevated section of Interstate 95 that collapsed, in Philadelphia, Monday, June 12, 2023. Drivers began longer commutes Monday after a section of Interstate 95 collapsed a day earlier following damage caused by a tanker truck carrying flammable cargo catching fire. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Collapsed I-95 bridge in Pennsylvania expected to take months to rebuild

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

This screen grab from video provided by WPVI-TV/6ABC shows fire and smoke near the collapsed section of I-95 in Philadelphia, Sunday, June 11, 2023. (WPVI-TV/6ABC via AP)

Long commutes start after part of I-95 collapses in Philadelphia following tanker truck fire

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