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FILE - California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a press conference in Paramount Calif., on Monday, May 1, 2023. Newsom pledged on Friday, May 19, 2023, to fast track about $180 billion worth of construction projects throughout the state, including a pair of water projects that have languished for decades. (Hans Gutknecht/The Orange County Register via AP, File)

California governor seeks to speed up water, clean energy projects delayed by lawsuits, permits

By Adam Beam and Tran Nguyen - Associated Press

Park Ku-yeon, first vice minister of South Korea's Office for Government Policy Coordination, left, speaks next to Yoo Guk-hee, chairperson of Nuclear Safety and Security Commission, right, during a briefing at the government complex in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, May 19, 2023. (Hwang Kwang-mo/Yonhap via AP)

South Korea to send 21-member team to Japan to review discharge plans at Fukushima nuclear plant

By Kim Tong-Hyung - Associated Press

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin speaks during a regular press conference in Beijing, on May 9, 2023. China on Friday May 19, 2023 warned against the introduction of "geopolitical games" in the South Pacific following the announcement that U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Papua New Guinea next week. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

China warns against ‘geopolitical games’ as U.S. announces Blinken trip to Papua New Guinea

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A pump jack sits idle in front of palm trees on June 9, 2021, in Signal Hill, Calif. A California legislative committee has blocked a bill that would have made oil companies liable for the health problems of people who live close to oil wells. It's among dozens of bills that did not survive the legislature's suspense file hearings. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

California lawmakers block bill allowing people to sue oil companies over health problems

By Sophie Austin - Associated Press

Steam billows from Lake Vui in the volcano crater of Mount Manaro on the island of Ambae, part of the Vanuatu islands chain, Dec. 8, 2005. A 7.7 magnitude earthquake Friday, May 19, 2023, in the far Pacific created small tsunami waves in Vanuatu. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft) **FILE**

Earthquake in the South Pacific causes small tsunamis

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

A delivery worker rides his electric bicycle past the New York Stock Exchange, March 16, 2020, in New York. The city built over 60 miles (100 km) of protected bike lanes from 2019 to 2022, usually connecting them to protected intersections, and a larger number of regular bike lanes. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) **FILE**

Minor earthquake strikes New York City metro area

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

A view of the swollen Santerno River with behind the Enzo e Dino Ferrari circuit, in Imola, Italy, Wednesday, May 17, 2023. The weekend's Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix in Imola has been canceled because of deadly floods. Formula One said it made the decision for safety reasons and to avoid any extra burden on the emergency services. F1 personnel had earlier been told to stay away from the track after floods affected large parts of the Emilia-Romagna region. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

F1 drivers de Vries, Tsunoda affected by Italy flooding as grand prix canceled

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Firefighters battle a large fire at Chiberta forest in Anglet, southwestern France, Thursday, July 30, 2020. French lawmakers have voted to ban smoking in all forests and woods during the fire season, part of a series of proposed measures to tackle growing destruction and dangers from climate change-related blazes. (AP Photo/Bob Edme, File)

France moves to ban smoking in woodlands to combat growing climate-related risk of mega fires

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People walk along the Tidal Basin during sunset as cherry blossoms enter their peak bloom this week, Wednesday, March 22, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) ** FILE **

Police rescue driver from hood of car in Tidal Basin

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Pipeline used to carry crude oil sits at the Superior, Wis., terminal of Enbridge Energy, June 29, 2018. Attorneys for a Wisconsin Native American tribe are set to argue Thursday, May 18, 2023, that a federal judge should order an energy company to shut down an oil pipeline the tribe says is at immediate risk of being exposed by erosion and rupturing on reservation land. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)

Wisconsin tribe asks court to shut down oil pipeline

By Harm Venhuizen - Associated Press

Drilling rigs stand idle on June 30, 2021, in Calumet, Okla. Republican politicians across the U.S. are criticizing President Joe Biden over his domestic energy policies and urging his administration to do more to ramp up domestic production. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

Democrats resurrect fossil fuels export ban that analysts fear would hike energy prices

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

A lobster rears its claws after being caught off Spruce Head, Maine, Aug. 31, 2021. Maine’s congressional delegation is using the $1.7 trillion federal spending bill to try to delay for six years new protections for endangered whales to protect Maine’s lobster industry. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Maine may pay lobster fishers to test new gear as whale protection rules loom

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In this grab taken from a digital scan released by Atlantic/Magellan on Thursday, May 18, 2023, a view of the bow of the Titanic, in the Atlantic Ocean created using deep-sea mapping. Deep-sea researchers have completed the first full-size digital scan of the Titanic wreck, showing the entire relic in unprecedented detail and clarity, the companies behind a new documentary on the wreck said Thursday. (Atlantic/Magellan via AP)

First full-size 3D scan of Titanic shows shipwreck in new light

By Sylvia Hui - Associated Press

China's Ambassador to Australia Xiao Qian speaks to media at the Embassy of China in Canberra, Thursday, May 18, 2023. Xiao asked Australian authorities Thursday to increase efforts to find survivors in an Indian Ocean search for 39 missing from a capsized Chinese fishing boat. (Lukas CochAAP Image via AP)

China asks Australia to increase search for 39 aboard capsized boat as 2 bodies reportedly found

By Rod McGuirk - Associated Press

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., is joined by Republicans from the Senate and the House as he leads an event on the debt limit negotiations, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 17, 2023. McCarthy and President Joe Biden have tasked a handful of representatives to try and close out a final deal. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Side deal to fast track energy projects, expand power grid emerges in debt limit wrangling

By Susan Ferrechio, Ramsey Touchberry and Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Members of civil defence pump flooding waters back into Zrmanja river in Obrovac, Croatia, Tuesday, May 16, 2023. Heavy rain in recent days caused some rivers to overflow their banks, flooding homes, roads and public buildings in some towns. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

3 dead as heavy rains in northern Italy burst riverbanks, flood towns

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Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., asks questions during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government hearing to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for the 2024 fiscal year at the Capitol in Washington on Wednesday, March 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades) ** FILE **

Manchin tanks Biden energy nominee over proposed gas stove rules

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

In this file photo, security personnel gather near the entrance of the Wuhan Institute of Virology during a visit by the World Health Organization team in Wuhan in China's Hubei province on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) ** FILE **

Sen. Marco Rubio releases COVID-19 origins report detailing suspicious behavior in China

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

This trail camera still image provided Mike Lockhart shows a bald eagle is seen landing on a trap set by a researcher, on April 30, 2023, near Medicine Bow, Wyo. A captive eagle used as a lure is seen to the right The trap was set by researcher Mike Lockhart. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service allows some wind farms to kill eagles under a government permit program. (Mike Lockhart via AP)

Criminal cases for killing eagles decline as wind turbine dangers grow

By Matthew Brown and Camille Fassett - Associated Press

New York Yankees' Aaron Judge walk past the countdown clock before hitting a two-run home run during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Tampa Bay Rays, Saturday, May 13, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews) **FILE**

MLB warns teams that batters may not try to trick pitchers into clock violations

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