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W.Va. residents rip pesticide facility plan as hearing looms

By John Raby - Associated Press

In this Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019 photo, a female black bear sleeps with its tongue out high up in a Ponderosa pine tree near Clark Fork School in the Rattlesnake neighborhood of Missoula, Mont. A federal judge has rejected a Trump administration request to dismiss a lawsuit filed by environmental groups seeking to ban using bait to hunt black bears in national forests in Idaho and Wyoming. The groups say allowing the use of bait violates environmental laws because hunters have ended up killing federally protected grizzly bears. (Tommy Martino/The Missoulian via AP, File)

Call of the ‘burbs: Surge of black bear sightings reported in Montgomery County

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

This photo made available by NASA shows Hurricane Harvey over Texas on Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017, seen from the International Space Station. Studies show that climate change are making hurricanes wetter, because warm air can hold more moisture, and are making the strongest storms a bit stronger. Storms also may be stalling more, allowing them to drop more rain over the same place, like in 2017’s Harvey. They are also rapidly intensifying more often, experts say. (Randy Bresnik/NASA via AP, File)

Beware harsh hurricanes: Forecasters predict ‘very active’ season

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

White House unveils package to curb AI risks

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Illustration on the negative prospects of electric vehicles by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Biden’s transportation transformation will cost Americans plenty

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

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 **

Senate Republicans push bid to streamline energy projects in counter to Manchin’s proposal

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

A worker walks next to a pile of sacks of food earmarked for the Tigray and Afar regions in a warehouse of the World Food Programme (WFP) in Semera, the regional capital for the Afar region, in Semera, Ethiopia, Feb. 21, 2022. The United Nations food relief agency has suspended aid deliveries to Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region amid an internal investigation into the theft of food meant for hungry people, according to four humanitarian workers. (AP Photo, File)

U.S. joins U.N. in suspending food aid to Ethiopia’s Tigray

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Illustration on the hazards of environmental, social and governance (ESG) policy by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Don’t let ESG sully our environmental achievements

By Mandy Gunasekara and Gabriella Hoffman

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. More than a quarter-billion people in 58 countries faced acute food insecurity last year because of conflicts, climate change, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia's war in Ukraine, according to a report published Wednesday, May 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)

UN: 258 million people faced acute food insecurity in 2022

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Wind turbines turn behind a solar farm in Rapshagen, Germany, Oct. 28, 2021. Germany has called for governments around the world to work on setting an ambitious target for renewable energy that would “ring in the end of the fossil fuel age” and help prevent dangerous global warming. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)

Fossils or not? Nations split on how to meet climate goals

By Frank Jordans - Associated Press

A UN convoy arrives at a camp in Idlib province, Syria, Wednesday, May 3, 2023. Three months after a massive earthquake hit Turkey and Syria, living conditions remain dire in Syria's rebel-held northwest. Three U.N. officials who visited Syria's Idlib province on Wednesday said some progress has been made but still more needs to be done to help the population in the rebel-held northwest that is home to some 4 million people. (AP Photo/Omar Albam)

Aid officials say Syria conditions dire, months after quake

By Omar Albam - Associated Press

Solar panels work at the DTE O'Shea Solar Park in Detroit, Nov. 16, 2022. The House voted Friday, April 28, 2023, to reinstate tariffs on solar panel imports from several Southeast Asian countries after President Joe Biden paused them in a bid to boost the U.S. solar industry, a key part of his climate agenda. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Democrats join Republicans to reverse Biden’s solar policy and punish China

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

MasterCard CEO Ajay Banga speaks to reporters in New York, April 6, 2011. World Bank executive directors on Wednesday confirmed former Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga to lead the organization for a five-year term which starts next month. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Ex-Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga confirmed as World Bank leader

By Fatima Hussein - Associated Press

A black rat snake wraps itself around an employee's hand at the Nature Museum in Charlotte, N.C., Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton) **FILE**

Snake causes power outage at Prince William County intersection, disrupting traffic lights

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

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)

Bye-bye blue flame? New York to ban natural gas stoves, furnaces in new buildings

By Michael Hill - Associated Press

The Farmers Defense Force flag, right, and Dutch flags, fly in the wind on an intersection blocked by tractors in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020. The Dutch government plans to drastically cut emissions of nitrogen pollution cleared a key hurdle Tuesday, May 2, 2023, when the European Union's executive arm gave the green light to farm buyout schemes worth nearly 1.5 billion euros ($1.65 billion). (AP Photo/Peter Dejong) **FILE**

Dutch plan to cut nitrogen emissions gets EU green light

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

Photo of a truckload of collected debris found on Cape Hatteras National Seashore beaches. Photo courtesy of NPS/Cape Hatteras National Seashore.

Navy probing debris that washed up in North Carolina, agencies cleaning 25 miles of shoreline

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

SpaceX's Starship turns after its launch from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, Thursday, April 20, 2023. The Federal Aviation Administration is being sued by wildlife and environmental groups over SpaceX's launch of its giant rocket from Texas. The lawsuit was filed Monday, May 1, 2023, in federal court in Washington. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Environmental groups sue FAA over SpaceX Texas rocket launch

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee speaks before signing multiple bills meant to prevent gun violence, Tuesday, April 25, 2023, at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. On Monday, May 1, 2023, Inslee announced he does not plan to seek a fourth term. He was most recently re-elected in 2020, making him only the second Washington state governor to serve three consecutive terms. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)

Democratic Washington Gov. Jay Inslee won’t seek 4th term

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A man passes by at the main train station on his bicycle as an advertising for the Deutschlandticket (Germany Ticket) is seen at left, in Frankfurt, Germany, Monday, May 1, 2023. Public transit companies in Germany say more than three million people have already snapped up a new ticket being launched Monday that allows them to use all local and regional trains, buses and metros across the country for 49 euros ($53.90) a month. (Sebastian Gollnow/dpa via AP)

Millions snap up new Germany-wide public transit ticket

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