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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

High tide waves hit the Arabian Sea coast in Porbandar, India, Sunday, June 11, 2023. Cyclone Biparjoy, the first severe cyclone in the Arabian Sea this year is set to hit the coastlines of India and Pakistan Thursday. (AP Photo)

India, Pakistan brace for severe cyclone, deploy rescuers to coastal regions

By Sibi Arasu and Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

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

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

Officials work on the scene following a collapse on I-95 after a truck fire, Sunday, June 11, 2023 in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Joe Lamberti)

Section of heavily traveled Interstate 95 collapses in Philadelphia

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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)

Fire under I-95 in Philadelphia causes section to collapse, closing interstate in both directions

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Houses are seen underwater in the flooded village near Kherson, Ukraine, Saturday, June 10, 2023. The destruction of the Kakhovka Dam in southern Ukraine is swiftly evolving into long-term environmental catastrophe. It affects drinking water, food supplies and ecosystems reaching into the Black Sea. (AP Photo)

Ukraine’s dam collapse is both a fast-moving disaster and a slow-moving ecological catastrophe

By Lori Hinnant and Sam McNeil and Illia Novikov - 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)

Youth environmentalists bring Montana climate case to trial after 12 years, seeking to set precedent

By Matthew Brown and Amy Beth Hanson - Associated Press

The smokestack of a shuttered trash incinerator is shown in Detroit, Friday, June 9, 2023. A controlled implosion is scheduled Sunday morning at the former Waste Energy Facility as part of the final phase of a yearlong demolition of the incinerator. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Smokestack implosion at defunct Detroit trash incinerator ends decades of stink

By Corey Williams - Associated Press

Farmers place a makeshift shelter at a pooling center for water buffalos and cows outside the 6-kilometer "permanent danger zone" near Mayon Volcano in Daraga, Albay province, northeastern Philippines, Sunday, June 11, 2023. Thousands of villagers have been forced to leave rural communities within a 6-kilometer radius of Mayon volcano's crater in Albay province. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Following owners, thousands of cows, buffaloes evacuated away from restive Philippine volcano

By Jim Gomez and Aaron Favila - Associated Press

Illustration on recycling aluminum and plastic by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Can U.N. solve a pollution problem?

By Richard Berman

The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe's largest, is seen in the background of the shallow Kakhovka Reservoir after the dam collapse, in Energodar, Russian-occupied Ukraine, Friday, June 9, 2023. The plant has been under Russian occupation since 2022. (AP Photo/Kateryna Klochko)

Intense fighting reported in Ukraine as last nuclear reactor is shut down amid flooding

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

Innovative Recycling with Plastic Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Recycling is better for the environment than electric vehicles

By Michael McKenna

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, center, poses for an official group photo with leaders attending the US - Caribbean Leaders meeting, at the Atlantis Conference Center in Nassau, Bahamas, Thursday, June 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Kristaan Ingraham)

VP Kamala Harris announces more than $100M to help Caribbean during official visit to Bahamas

By Dánica Coto - Associated Press

A man crosses Broad Street past a hazy City Hall, June 7, 2023, in Philadelphia. Thick, smoky air from Canadian wildfires made for days of misery in New York City and across the U.S. Northeast this week. But for much of the rest of the world, breathing dangerously polluted air is an inescapable fact of life — and death. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)

For many cities around the world, bad air an inescapable part of life

By Suman Naishadham - Associated Press

Sadaf Zahoor is photographed inside a Bay Area Rapid Transit station, Wednesday, June 7, 2023, in Oakland, Calif. Zahoor has used public transit her whole life and relies on it to get to work. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

Car-obsessed California seeks to follow New York’s lead and save public transit

By Jeff Mcmurray and Adam Beam - Associated Press

Sprinklers water a lawn at a home Thursday, June 8, 2023, in Las Vegas. Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo signed a law this week, following passage by the Democratic-controlled Legislature, that would let the Southern Nevada Water Authority cap residential water flows in the future if the federal government dials back Nevada's share of water drawn from the drought-stricken Lake Mead reservoir. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Vegas water agency empowered to limit home water flows in future

By Ken Ritter - Associated Press

People go up and down the escalators. at the centaurus mall, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, June 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Cash-strapped Pakistani government proposes budget, complete with funds to fight climate change

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Climate activist Greta Thunberg arrives at the weekly Fridays for Future demonstration at the Mynttorget square next to the Swedish Parliament Riksdagen, in Stockholm, Sweden, on Nov. 11, 2022. Thunberg said Friday, June 9, 2023, she will no longer be able to skip classes as a way to draw attention to climate change because she is graduating from high school. (Pontus Lundahl/TT News Agency via AP, File)

Climate activist Greta Thunberg won’t be school striking after graduation but vows to still protest

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A view of a flooded neighborhood in Kherson, Ukraine, Thursday, June 8, 2023. Floodwaters from a collapsed dam kept rising in southern Ukraine on Thursday, forcing hundreds of people to flee their homes in a major emergency operation that brought a dramatic new dimension to the war with Russia, now in its 16th month. (AP Photo/Libkos)

A dam collapses and thousands face the deluge — often with no help — in Russian-occupied Ukraine

By Illia Novikov, Yuras Karmanau and Hanna Arhirova - Associated Press