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A Royal Bengal tiger rests at its enclosure at the Alipore zoo in Kolkata, India, Monday, July 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Bikas Das) **FILE**

Tigers temporarily escape Georgia zoo during tornado

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

An oil well works at sunrise Aug. 25, 2021, in Watford City, N.D., part of McKenzie County. U.N. Secretary-Antonio Guterres warned Tuesday, June 14, of a “dangerous disconnect” between what scientists and citizens are demanding to curb climate change, and what governments are actually doing about it. Guterres said the war in Ukraine risked worsening the crisis, because major economies were “doubling down on fossil fuels” that are to blame for much of the emissions stoking global warming. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

Most Americans give thumbs up to GOP energy package as Biden threatens veto

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

In this July 8, 2017 file photo, a woman with the World Wildlife Fund carries a paper mache replica of the critically endangered porpoise known as the "vaquita marina" during an event in front of the National Palace calling on the government to take additional steps to protect the world's smallest marine mammal, in Mexico City. The international wildlife body CITES called Monday, March 27, 2023 on member countries to stop trade with Mexico for products linked to sensitive species, such as orchids, cactuses and skins from crocodiles and snakes. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Group bans some trade with Mexico over endangered porpoise

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Some of the coal-burning Hazelwood Power Station's eight chimneys begin to topple as they are demolished and the station is decommissioned in Hazelwood, Victoria, on May 25, 2020. The Australian government has taken, on Monday, March 27, 2023, a major step forward in implementing a key climate policy that would force major greenhouse gas polluters to reduce emissions with the minor Greens party pledging their support. (James Ross/AAP Image via AP)

Australia steps toward making big polluters reduce emissions

By Rod McGuirk - Associated Press

This photo provided on Tuesday, March 28, 2023, by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, rear, visits a hall displayed what appeared to be various types of warheads designed to be mounted on missiles or rocket launchers on March 27, 2023, in undisclosed location, North Korea. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

Kim Jong-un wants North Korea to make more nuclear material for bombs

By Kim Tong-Hyung - Associated Press

Wind turbines work at the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm, off the coast of the Guerande peninsula in western France, on Sept. 22, 2022. The wind power industry on Monday, March 27, 2023, projected growth to rapidly accelerate this year, with incentives and policy changes in key nations helping to overcome factors that led to a slowdown in 2022. (Stephane Mahe/Pool Photo via AP) **FILE**

Wind industry predicts bounce-back and rapid growth in 2023

By Jennifer McDermott - Associated Press

Illustration on climate hysteria by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

As COVID hysteria fades, climate hysteria rises

By Robert Knight

Wonder Bolden cradles her year-old granddaughter Journey Bolden as she surveys the remains of her mother's tornado demolished mobile home in Rolling Fork, Miss., Saturday March 25, 2023. Emergency officials in Mississippi say several people have been killed by tornadoes that tore through the state on Friday night, destroying buildings and knocking out power as severe weather produced hail the size of golf balls moved through several southern states. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Federal aid coming to tornado-wrecked swath of Mississippi

By Leah Willingham - Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks to the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa, Canada, Friday, Mach 24, 2023. (Mandel Ngan/Pool via AP)

Biden pledges federal assistance after Mississippi tornadoes: ‘We will be there as long as it takes’

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

FILE - Cars give off exhaust fumes as children head to school in Frankfurt, Germany, on Monday, Feb. 27, 2023. Germany and the European Union said Saturday, March 25, 2023 that they reached an agreement in their dispute over the future of cars with combustion engines allowing the registration of new vehicles with combustion engines even after 2035 if they use climate-neutral fuel only. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

Germany, EU reach agreement in combustion engine row

By Kirsten Grieshaber - Associated Press

High tension power lines pass through Makoko slum in Lagos, Nigeria, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2022. From Zimbabwe, where many must work at night because i t's the only time there is power, to Nigeria where collapses of the grid are frequent, the reliable supply of electricity remains elusive across Africa. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba/File)

‘What can we do?’: Millions in African countries need power

By Mogomotsi Magome - Associated Press

Law-enforcement officers climb through debris on a diner looking for survivors early Saturday, March 25, 2023 in Rolling Fork, Miss. No one was found. Emergency officials in Mississippi say several people have been killed by tornadoes that tore through the state on Friday night, destroying buildings and knocking out power as severe weather produced hail the size of golf balls moved through several southern states.(AP Photo/Rogelio Solis)

Mississippi tornadoes kill 23, injure dozens overnight

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FILE - Huge amounts of snow are seen after a series of storms blasted communities surrounding South Lake Tahoe, Calif. on Jan. 4, 2023. California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced, Friday, March 24, 2023, an end to some drought restrictions and calls for water conservation, following a series of winter storms have dramatically improved the state's water supply outlook. (Brontë Wittpenn/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, File)

California ends some water limits after storms ease drought

By Adam Beam - Associated Press

People walk on a trail at the Montissippi County Park near the Xcel Energy Monticello Generating Plant, a nuclear power plant, in Monticello, Minn., on Friday, March 24, 2023. (Renee Jones Schneider/Star Tribune via AP)

Minnesota nuclear plant shuts down for leak; residents worry

By Trisha Ahmed and Matthew Daly - Associated Press

The industrial backdrop of a BP refinery and a Uniper coal-fired power plant is seen in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, March 6, 2023. A major new United Nations report being released Monday, March 20, 2023, is expected to provide a sobering reminder that time is running out if humanity wants to avoid passing a dangerous global warming threshold. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

Federal agency tries to downplay its ‘ecogrief’ training; skeptics question employee triggers

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Smoke rises from a coal-powered steel plant at Hehal village near Ranchi, in eastern state of Jharkhand, Sept. 26, 2021. India will require $900 billion over the next 30 years to move away from coal mines and thermal plants, a New Delhi-based think tank said in a report Thursday, March 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri) **FILE**

Cost of India quitting coal is $900 billion, think tank says

By Sibi Arasu - Associated Press

Planet Earth. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Asteroid as big as 310 feet in diameter to pass by Earth

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

U.S. Rep. Garret Graves, R-La., left, speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 18, 2022. Graves, who was long considered a possible candidate for Louisiana governor in 2023 announced Tuesday, March 7, 2023, that he would not run for the position. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Why House Republicans say Senate Democrats need the GOP’s energy package

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Hywind Scotland, the world's first commercial wind farm using floating wind turbines, is visible off the coast of Scotland in August 2017. Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022, marks the first-ever U.S. auction for leases to develop commercial-scale floating wind farms in the deep waters off the West Coast. (Woldcam/Equinor via AP)

House Republicans want to pause offshore wind projects

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

A 34-foot Dauntless-class patrol boat assigned to Maritime Expeditionary Security Squadron Eleven keeps watch over Charles Moulthrope, Coast Guard Patrol Craft. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Randi Brown)

Maritime hearing to focus on securing coastline

The Washington Times