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Extinct Vehicles with Internal Combustion Engine Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Biden is coming for your cars, all of your cars

By Michael McKenna

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

View of the village and the "Brienzer Rutsch", taken in Brienz-Brinzauls, Switzerland, Friday, May 12, 2023. Authorities in eastern Switzerland have ordered residents of the tiny village of Brienz to evacuate by Friday evening because geology experts say a mass of 2 million cubic meters of Alpine rock looming overhead could break loose and spill down in coming weeks. (AP Photo/Arnd Wiegmann)

Swiss village evacuated due to threat of 2.6 million cubic-yard rockslide

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Emigrant Peak towers over the Paradise Valley in Montana north of Yellowstone National Park, on Nov. 21, 2016. Attorneys for a group of youths suing Montana over damages caused by climate change say officials repealed the state's energy policy to avoid an upcoming trial. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

Judge says youth climate lawsuit will proceed to trial in Montana after state tried to scuttle case

By Amy Beth Hanson and Matthew Brown - Associated Press

People visit the Magic Kingdom Park at Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., April 18, 2022. Ongoing strength at its theme parks and an improving streaming business propelled The Walt Disney Co. to higher profits and revenue in its fiscal second quarter in 2023. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)

74 million tourists visited Orlando, Florida, almost reaching pre-pandemic levels

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Delegates participate in the Indian Ocean Conference in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, May 12, 2023. Representatives from 25 countries met on Friday to discuss the growing economic and security role of Indian Ocean nations Conference in Bangladesh’s capital to discuss maritime and other strategic issues in the Indian Ocean region amid a new world order emerging following the Ukraine-Russia war. (AP Photo/Al-emrun Garjon)

Representatives from 25 Indian Ocean nations discuss security, economic growth and cooperation

By Julhas Alam - Associated Press

This photo shows tanks (in gray, beige and blue) storing water that was treated but is still radioactive after it was used to cool down spent fuel at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Feb. 27, 2021. Officials from Japan and South Korea are discussing a visit for South Korean experts at the Fukushima nuclear plant later this month to see preparation for a controversial plan to release to sea treated but radioactive water, one of their major sticking points between the two sides that are quickly thawing their long-strained ties. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae, File)

Japan, South Korea eye visit by team of experts as Fukushima nuclear plant prepares water release

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Trade Minister Don Farrell is interviewed at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, on Feb. 16, 2023. Australian Trade and Tourism Minister Don Farrell visited China on Thursday, May 11, 2023, as part of a joint effort to repair ties scarred by political rifts over the past decade. (Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP)

Australian trade minister visits China as part of joint efforts to repair ties

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This satellite image provided by India Meteorological Department shows storm Mocha intensify into a very severe cyclonic storm. Authorities in Bangladesh and Myanmar prepared to evacuate hundreds of thousands of people Friday, warning them to stay away from coastal areas as a severe cyclonic storm churned in the Bay of Bengal. The storm is expected to roar in on Sunday with a wind speed of up to 160 kilometers per hour (100 miles per hour), gusting to 175 kph (110 mph) between Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh and Kyaukpyu in Myanmar, India's Meteorological Department said. (India Meteorological Department via AP)

Hundreds of thousands to be evacuated as Bangladesh and Myanmar brace for severe cyclone

By Julhas Alam - Associated Press

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan testifies on Capitol Hill, March 22, 2023, in Washington. The Biden administration is proposing new limits on greenhouse gas emissions from coal and gas-fired power plants, its most ambitious effort yet to roll back planet-warming pollution from the nation's second-largest contributor to climate change. A rule to be unveiled Thursday, May 11, by the EPA could force power plants to capture smokestack emissions using a technology that has long been promised but is not in widespread use in the U.S. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana. File)

In major climate step, EPA proposes 1st limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

This undated photo provided by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources shows a northern long-eared bat. The U.S. Senate on Thursday, May 11, 2023, proposed dropping a 2022 federal designation of the northern long-eared bat as endangered. The Fish and Wildlife Service declared the northern long-eared bat endangered last November, raising its status from threatened. It is among 12 bat types hammered by white-nose syndrome, a fungal disease that has reduced its numbers by 97% or more in some areas. (Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources via AP, File)

Senate votes to limit critical habitat designation for imperiled species and drop bat’s protections

By John Flesher - Associated Press

Large Icebergs float away as the sun rises near Kulusuk, Greenland, Aug. 16, 2019. Norway has taken over the Arctic Council’s rotating presidency from Russia on Thursday, May 11, 2023 amid concerns that the work of the eight-country intergovernmental body on protecting the sensitive environment is at risk due to suspension of cooperation with Moscow over the Ukraine war. Research involving Russia ranging from climate work to mapping polar bears have been put on hold and scientists have lost access to important facilities in the Russian Arctic. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana) **FILE**

Norway takes over presidency of Arctic Council from Russia

By Jan M. Olsen - Associated Press

Former Gov. Jennifer Granholm, D-Mich., testifies before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee during a hearing to examine her nomination to be Secretary of Energy, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Graeme Jennings/Pool via AP)

Energy secretary defends Biden admin’s gas-stove regulations, vows ‘nobody will take your gas stove’

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Large chain stores selling electronics and household appliances. File photo credit: BestPhotoPlus via Shutterstock

Watch now: Tim Constantine talks Biden climate change initiatives in ‘Top of the Times’

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan testifies on Capitol Hill, March 22, 2023, in Washington. The Biden administration is proposing new limits on greenhouse gas emissions from coal and gas-fired power plants, its most ambitious effort yet to roll back planet-warming pollution from the nation's second-largest contributor to climate change. A rule to be unveiled Thursday, May 11, by the EPA could force power plants to capture smokestack emissions using a technology that has long been promised but is not in widespread use in the U.S. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana. File)

Biden unveils sweeping EPA rules to force power plants to slash nearly all emissions

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

A speed camera sits in the center median along Bladensburg Road in Northeast, Washington, D.C., Sunday, Nov. 24, 2013. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times) ** FILE **

More than 6 million D.C. traffic tickets are unpaid: Report

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

FILE - The U.S. Supreme Court is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 2, 2023. The Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to a California animal cruelty law that affects the pork industry, ruling that the case was properly dismissed by lower courts. Pork producers had said that the law could force industry-wide changes and raise the cost of bacon and other pork products nationwide. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File Photo)

Supreme Court moves to reestablish rule of law in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., left, chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, is joined by Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., the ranking member, as the panel hears from Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on President Joe Biden's budget request for 2024, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, May 2, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Manchin vows to oppose Biden EPA nominees over ‘radical climate agenda’ against power plants

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

America 180: Mister Robinson’s Neighborhood

America 180: Mister Robinson’s Neighborhood

The sun rises over floating solar panels on May 3, 2023, in Selangor, Malaysia. Floating solar panel farms are beginning to boom in the United States after rapid growth in Asia. They're attractive not just for their clean power and lack of a land footprint, but because they also conserve water by preventing evaporation. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Long popular in Asia, floating solar catches on in U.S.

By Isabella O'Malley - Associated Press