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Former Idaho Gov. Phill Batt acknowledges the applause from in the House Chambers in the House Chambers at the Idaho Statehouse on Jan. 7, 2013, in Boise, Idaho. Former Gov. Phil died at home on Saturday, March 4, 2023. He was 96 years old. (Joe Jaszewski/Idaho Statesman via AP)

Phil Batt, onion farmer who rose to Idaho governor, dies

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The Environmental Protection Agency's children's environmental health centers have engaged in "statistical shenanigans" to draw shaky links on children's health issues, according to the Competitive Enterprise Institute. (Associated Press/File)

Settlement with Texas oil company will remove thousands of pounds of pollutants from the air

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Father Reinhart Kraft of the 'Ecumenical Ecology Group Lichtenrade' poses with a protest poster in front of the headquarters of the German Liberal Party (FDP) in Berlin, Germany, Friday, March 3, 2023. The Free Democrats, a small pro-business party that controls Germany's Ministry of Transport, has pushed back against efforts to impose a general speed limit, phase out combustion engines and reduce road building. Slogan reads: 'End the climate boycott'. (AP Photo/Frank Jordans)

Climate activists protest Germany’s transportation policies

By Frank Jordans - Associated Press

Moai statues stand on Ahu Tongariki near the Rano Raraku volcano, top, on Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, Chile, Nov. 27, 2022. According to Salvador Atan Hito, vice president of the Ma'u Henua Indigenous community which administers the archaeological treasure of Rapa Nui, on March 1, 2023, a small moai was discovered recently in the middle of a dry lagoon inside the volcano's crater. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix, File)

New Polynesian moai statue unearthed in dry volcanic lake bed on Chile’s Easter Island

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

FILE - Bison awaiting transfer to Native American tribes walk in a herd inside a corral at Badlands National Park, on Oct. 13, 2022, near Wall, S.D. U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on Friday is expected to announce a secretarial order that's meant to help more tribes establish bison herds, along with $25 million in federal spending for such efforts. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown,File)

U.S. to focus bison restoration on expanding tribal herds

By Matthew Brown - Associated Press

A luxury Audi car is surrounded by exhaust gases as it is parked with a running engine in front of the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019. Germany’s transport minister said Tuesday that his country won’t back a planned European Union ban on the sale of new cars with combustion engines from 2035. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)

EU countries postpone vote on combustion engine ban

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A night shot with a silhouette of a telescope, with a sky full of stars and the conjunction of Venus and Jupiter. (File Photo credit: Javier Rosano via Shutterstock)

Space romance: Jupiter, Venus kissed long distance last night

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Top Senate Republican presses Granholm on climate report calling to ditch cars — including EVs

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Federal agency takes step toward gas stove regulations

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

In this image taken from video provided by the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary, the bow of the Ironton is seen in Lake Huron off Michigan's east coast in a June 2021 photo. Searchers have found the long-lost Great Lakes ship that came to a tragic end. Officials with the sanctuary in Alpena, Mich., say they've located the Ironton, a freight schooner that plunged to the bottom of Lake Huron in 1894. The Ironton collided with another vessel in rough seas. Reports at the time said the seven-member crew scrambled into a lifeboat, but it was tethered to the ship and pulled down. Five crewmen died. (Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary via AP)

Long-lost shipwreck from 19th century confirmed in Lake Huron

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

People wearing face masks walk past rows of lanterns at a tourist shopping street in Beijing, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

China dismisses FBI statement on COVID-19 lab leak theory

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks with reporters said on Friday, Oct. 7, 2022, in Sacramento. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli) ** FILE **

Gov. Gavin Newsom ends California’s COVID-19 emergency after 3 years

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

People warm themselves next to a collapsed building in Malatya, Turkey, on Feb. 7, 2023. A magnitude 5.6 earthquake shook southern Turkey on Monday, Feb. 27, 2023, three weeks after a catastrophic temblor devastated the region, causing some already damaged buildings to collapse and killing at least one person, the country's disaster management agency, AFAD, said. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel, File)

Turkey intends to hold elections on May 14 despite quake

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The CPV power plant operates in Woodbridge N.J. on Feb. 27, 2023. The company's plan to a second gas-fired power plant next to the existing one is being opposed by residents of the mainly minority and low-income communities around the plant who say an environmental justice law signed over two years ago by New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy but which has yet to take full effect should prevent the plant from being built. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)

‘Enough pollution’ in minority area eyed for NJ power plant

By Wayne Parry - Associated Press

FILE - In this photo released by the Cambodia Ministry of Health, Cambodia health experts spray disinfectant at a village in Prey Veng eastern province Cambodia, Feb. 24, 2023. Health officials in Cambodia say recent cases of bird flu discovered in two villagers, one of them fatal, show no sign of human-to-human transmission. The finding allays fears of a public health crisis. (Cambodia Ministry of Health via AP)

Cambodia says recent bird flu cases not spread by humans

By Sopheng Cheang - Associated Press

Bill Gates, the Climate Grifter Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Bill Gates’ climate change deceptions are taking us for a billion-dollar ride

By Paul Driessen

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., pauses before leaving an intelligence briefing on the unknown aerial objects the U.S. military shot down this weekend at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023. The incidents come shortly after a Chinese surveillance balloon traversed the U.S. and was shot down off South Carolina a week ago. (Associated Press)

Joe Manchin: ESG hurts energy security if geopolitical risks get ignored

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

In this grab taken from video provided by KOCO, a view of the damage to a property after severe storms, in Shawnee, Oklahoma, late Sunday, Feb, 26, 2023. Powerful storms with widespread wind gusts and reported tornadoes swept across Oklahoma and Kansas, leaving more than a dozen people injured, and Michigan residents faced a fifth straight day Monday without power following last week’s ice storm. (KOCO via AP)

Winds tear through Southern Plains; Northeast to see snow

By Rick Callahan and Christopher Weber - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un speaks during a meeting of the ruling Workers’ Party at its headquarters in Pyongyang, North Korea Sunday, Feb. 26, 2023. 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 language watermark on image as provided by source reads: "KCNA" which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

North Korea holds rare meeting on farming amid food shortage

By Kim Tong-hyung and Hyung-jin Kim - Associated Press

The Biden administration aims to dictate retirement investments

By U.S. Sen. James Lankford