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Large parts of the forests are missing in the Taunus region near Frankfurt, Germany, Friday, April 7, 2023. The European Union has been at the forefront of the fight against climate change and the protection of nature for years. But it now finds itself under pressure from within to pause new environmental efforts amid fears they will hurt the economy. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

Cracks emerging in Europe’s united front to battle climate change

By Samuel Petrequin - Associated Press

FILE - Tracy Stone-Manning listens during a confirmation hearing for her to be the director of the Bureau of Land Management, during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 8, 2021. Stone-Manning says a pending Biden administration rule to sell conservation leases on federal lands would not exclude other uses such as drilling and mining. Some Republicans say it would lock out other uses such as energy development and is illegal. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Biden wants conservation to trump utilization of Western states’ public lands

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

FILE - An aircraft lays down a line of fire retardant between a wildfire and homes in the dry, densely wooded Black Forest area northeast of Colorado Springs, Colo., on June 13, 2013. A federal judge said Friday, May 26, 2023, that chemical retardant dropped on wildfires by the U.S. Forest Service is polluting streams in western states in violation of federal law, but said it can keep being use to fight fires. (AP Photo/John Wark, File)

Judge says fire retardant drops are polluting streams but allows use to continue

By Matthew Brown - Associated Press

A grizzly bear roams near Beaver Lake on July 6, 2011, in Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. A federal appeals court ruled Thursday, May 25, 2023, that federal wildlife and forest officials must consider limits on killing female grizzly bears to protect livestock in a vast area of the Wind River Range in western Wyoming. (AP Photo/Jim Urquhart, File)

Environmental groups prevail on limit to grizzly bear deaths in Wyoming cattle grazing area

By Mead Gruver - Associated Press

A bird flies with Mount Everest seen in the background from Namche Bajar, Solukhumbu district, Nepal, May 27, 2019. As the mountaineering community prepare to celebrate the 70 anniversary of the conquest of Mount Everest, there is rising concern about the glacier and snow is melting, the temperature is rising and weather is getting harsh and unpredictable on world's highest mountain. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha, File)

Climbers celebrate Mount Everest 70th anniversary amid melting glaciers, rising temperatures

By Binaj Gurubacharya - Associated Press

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks during a news conference after attending the Group of Seven nations' summit in Hiroshima, western Japan, Monday, May 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)

Brazilian president says U.N. will hold climate conference in Brazil in 2025

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Activists and supporters of the group 'Letzte Generation' Last Generation demonstrate in Stuttgart, Friday May 26, 2023. A German government spokesperson on Friday rejected the notion that comments by Chancellor Olaf Scholz criticizing climate activists might have prompted raids against them this week. (Andreas Rosar/dpa via AP)

German government denies Scholz comments spurred raids on climate activists

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Senator Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., asks question during a Senate Rules and Administration Committee hearing to examine the Electoral Count Act, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Senators urge EPA to withdraw ‘legally flawed’ vehicle emission regulations

By Olivia Anderson - Special to The Washington Times

A pair of young red-lored Amazon parrots investigate their environment at the Rare Species Conservatory Foundation in Loxahatchee, Fla., Friday, May 19, 2023, nearly two months after a smuggler was caught, according to a criminal complaint, with 29 parrot eggs at Miami International Airport in late March when the eggs began hatching in his carry-on bag while in transit. The RSCF is raising the 24 surviving red-lored and yellow-naped parrots while looking for a long-term home for the birds. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Taiwanese man could face 20 years in prison, $250,000 fine for smuggling parrots

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a news conference on Friday, May 12, 2023, in Sacramento, California. On Thursday, May 25, 2023, Newsom will update his plan to move the state away from fossil fuels. (Hector Amezcua/The Sacramento Bee via AP, File)

California unlikely to run short of electricity this summer thanks to storms, new power sources

By Adam Beam - Associated Press

Michael and Chantell Sackett of Priest Lake, Idaho, pose for a photo in front of the Supreme Court in Washington on Oct. 14, 2011. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari) **FILE**

Supreme Court limits federal power over wetlands, enhances property rights over clean water

By Mark Sherman and Jessica Gresko - Associated Press

Trees stand stripped of leaves following Typhoon Mawar outside Hagatna, Guam, Thursday, May 25, 2023. The Category 4 typhoon pummeled the U.S. Pacific territory with howling winds, torrential rain and a life-threatening storm surge as residents hunkered down on the island. (AP Photo/Grace Garces Bordallo)

Typhoon Mawar batters Guam, and ‘what used to be a jungle looks like toothpicks’

By Grace Garces Bordallo and Jennifer Sinco Kelleher - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute, the Nuri rocket lifts off from the Naro Space Center in Goheung, South Korea, Thursday, May 25, 2023. South Korea launched the commercial-grade satellite Thursday for the first time as part of its growing space development program, as rival North Korea is pushing to place its first military spy satellite into orbit. (Korea Aerospace Research Institute via AP)

South Korea launches first commercial-grade satellite, as North Korea plans first spy satellite

By Hyung-jin Kim - Associated Press

A bulldozer clears the fallen Cotton Tree in downtown Freetown, Sierra Leone, Thursday May 25, 2023. Sierra Leone's centuries-old iconic Cotton Tree, seen as a symbol of liberty and freedom by early settlers, fell during torrential rains in the capital causing a great loss to the nation and leaving "a gap in our hearts", President Julius Maada Bio told The Associated Press on Thursday. (AP Photo/TJ Bade)

Centuries-old cotton tree, a national symbol for decades, felled by storm in Sierra Leone

By Sam Mednick - Associated Press

This photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard overlooking Noverlooking Tumon Bay in Guam, as Super Typhoon Mawar closes in on Tuesday, May 23, 2023. Residents of Guam are stockpiling supplies, battening down windows and abandoning wood and tin homes for emergency shelters as Super Typhoon Mawar bears down as the strongest storm to approach the U.S. Pacific territory in decades. ( Lt. Junior Grade Drew Lovullo/US Coast Guard via AP)

Super Typhoon Mawar passing over Guam as Category 4 storm with strong winds, rain

By Grace Garces Bordallo and Jennifer Sinco Kelleher - Associated Press

A patient recovers from cholera at the Jubilee District Hospital in Hamanskraal, Pretoria, South Africa, Monday May 22, 2023. At least 17 people have now died from the outbreak in the area. The National Health Department of South Africa said Tuesday, May 23, 2023, that it is on high alert to prevent imported cholera from crossing its borders as the Southern African region is experiencing the outbreak. (AP Photo)

Cholera kills 17 in South Africa and a further 9 in neighboring Zimbabwe

By Mogomotsi Magome and Farai Mutsaka - Associated Press

U.S. Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., speaks during an interview Friday, Nov. 12, 2021, in Northwoods, Mo. Rep. Bush claims on social media that white supremacists shot at protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, but the city’s police chief says he was unaware of any such incident. She posted on Twitter and Facebook on Monday, Nov. 15, 2021 that during the protests following Brown's death, “white supremacists would hide behind a hill near where Michael Brown Jr. was murdered and shoot at us.” Many people responded by questioning if that really happened. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Gas stove debate sparks racial talk from Democrats as Biden officials duck public grilling

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Volcanic ash from the Popocatépetl volcano covers Atlixco, Mexico, Monday, May 22, 2023. The volcano's activity has increased over the past week. Evacuations have not been ordered, but authorities are preparing for that scenario and telling people to stay out of 7.5-mile (12-kilometer) radius around the peak. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Concern about Mexico’s Popocatepetl volcano changes with the wind

By María Verza - Associated Press

Police officers use hammers and chisels to remove a climate activist who has glued himself to a road during a climate protest in Berlin, Germany, Monday, May 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Germany cracks down on climate activists after Scholz calls protest group ‘nutty’

By Geir Moulson and Frank Jordans - Associated Press

Nunay Mohamed, 25, who fled the drought-stricken Lower Shabelle area, holds her one-year old malnourished child at a makeshift camp for the displaced on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia on June 30, 2022. Humanitarian agencies are calling for the full funding of the U.N. Horn of Africa $7 billion appeal during a pledging conference scheduled for Wednesday, May 24, 2023, citing a growing crisis and need for urgent lifesaving intervention. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)

U.S. announces $524M for Horn of Africa drought, climate crisis while Germany, UK also make pledges

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press