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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

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

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

In this photo released on Nov. 9, 2019, by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks in Damascus, Syria. (SANA via AP, File)

Returning to the Arab fold, Syria’s president invited to UAE-hosted COP28 climate

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Farmland is seen with solar panels from Cypress Creek Renewables, Oct. 28, 2021, in Thurmont, Md. The Senate has approved a measure that would reinstate tariffs on solar panel imports from several Southeast Asian countries after President Joe Biden paused them in a bid to boost solar installations in the U.S. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) **FILE**

Biden vetoes bid by Congress to reinstate tariffs on solar panel imports from SE Asia

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

REIN in big government to unleash our energy economy

By U.S. Rep. Kat Cammack

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, expresses criticism for Interior Secretary Deb Haaland as she testifies on President Joe Biden's budget request for 2024, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, May 2, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

How energy prices will shape key House and Senate races in 2024

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Natural gas burning on kitchen gas stove in the dark. File photo credit: Bilanol via Shutterstock

GOP bill to block Biden’s anti-gas stove regulations advanced by House panel

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Arizona must lead on energy infrastructure investment

By U.S. Rep. Debbie Lesko

Construction crews are boring beneath U.S. 221 in Roanoke County, Va., to make a tunnel through which the Mountain Valley Pipeline will pass under the highway, seen on Friday, June 22, 2018. The U.S. Forest Service has reissued approval for the controversial and long-delayed natural gas pipeline to run through Jefferson National Forest in Virginia and West Virginia. The decision will allow for construction of the $6.6 billion Mountain Valley Pipeline across a 3.5-mile corridor of the national forest. (Heather Rousseau/The Roanoke Times via AP) **FILE**

Gas pipeline gets new permit to build in Jefferson National Forest

By Leah Willingham - Associated Press

Chickens walk in a fenced pasture at an organic farm in Iowa on Oct. 21, 2015. Iowa agriculture officials said Monday, Oct. 31, 2022, that another commercial egg farm in the state has been infected with bird flu, the first commercial farm case identified since April when a turkey farm was infected. The latest case is in Wright County in north central Iowa, housing about 1.1 million chickens. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File) **FILE**

Bird flu detected in 2 poultry workers in the U.K.; no transmission between people

Associated Press

Don’t ‘finish the job’: President Biden’s electric vehicle pipe dream

By U.S. Sen. Deb Fischer

Priest Joerg Alt, front, attends the beginning of his trial at a court in Munich, Germany, Wednesday, May 3, 2023. A German court on Tuesday convicted a Jesuit priest of coercion in connection with a climate protest last year and ordered him to pay a small fine. In Alt's case, that was a 10-euro ($10.85) fine. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)

German court convicts, fines Jesuit priest over climate protest

Associated Press

Water infrastructure protects communities, safeguards farms, prevents insurance spikes

By U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer

President Joe Biden answers a reporter's question as he boards Air Force One at Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Del., Monday, May 15, 2023. Biden is traveling to Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Biden issues third veto against bipartisan effort to restore Chinese solar panel tariffs

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Cattle graze along a section of the Missouri River that includes the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument near Fort Benton, Mont., on Sept. 19, 2011. A Biden administration proposal would allow the sales of conservation leases on federal lands to restore degraded habitat. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown) **FILE**

Biden proposal would let conservationists lease public land much as drillers and ranchers do

By Matthew Brown - Associated Press

Illustration on energy production and government permitting by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Energy security is national security: Permitting reform can get U.S. back on track

By Patrice Douglas

FILE - People on the beach take photos of the 'Tungsten Explored' drilling ship, in the southern coastal city of Larnaca, Cyprus, on Nov. 3, 2021. Cyprus and Israel are working on a deal to build a pipeline that will convey natural gas from both countries to the east Mediterranean island nation, where it will be liquefied for export by ship to Europe and potentially elsewhere, the Cypriot energy minister said Monday May 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias, File)

Cyprus, Israel working on deal for natural gas pipeline, processing plant in Cyprus

By Menelaos Hadjicostis - Associated Press

Steam is emitted from smokestacks at a coal-fired power plant Nov. 17, 2021, in Craig, Colo. President Joe Biden is promising “strong executive action” to combat climate change, despite dual setbacks that have restricted his ability to regulate carbon emissions and boost clean energy such as wind and solar power. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) **FILE**

EPA green rules increase blackout risks; emission caps on reliable fuels will shut down power plants

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

In this photo provided by Myanmar Military True News Information Team on Sunday, May 14, 2023, buildings damaged by Cyclone Mocha is seen in Kyauk Phyu township, Rakhine State. (Military True News Information Team via AP)

Powerful Cyclone Mocha floods homes, cuts communications in western Myanmar, at least 700 injured

By Julhas Alam - Associated Press