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The Fairview Fire burns on a hillside Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022, near Hemet, Calif. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

A world of hurt: Workshops aim to help federal employees cope with ‘ecogrief’

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Illustration on carbon capture tax credit 45Q by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Government should impose transparency on carbon capture tax

By Brian Darling

Schools and tap water lead contamination by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

More than 70% of schools tested confirm lead contamination in tap water

By Rick Berman

Greenpeace Killing Whales Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Greenpeace co-founder says group is betraying its principles by peddling junk science as whales die

By Patrick Moore

Fatos Baruc, who lives in Germany and whose mother-in-law survived the earthquake, sits on a chair as she waits for her belongings to take away from a damaged building in Pazarcik, Turkey, Monday, Feb. 13, 2023. Thousands left homeless by a massive earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria a week ago packed into crowded tents or lined up in the streets for hot meals Monday, while the desperate search for anyone still alive likely entered its last hours. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Rescuers find more alive in Turkey, more aid reaches Syria

By Bernat Armangue and Zeynep Bilginsoy - Associated Press

A container ship passes the Ford car plant in Cologne, Germany, May 4, 2020. Ford said that it will cut 3,800 jobs in Europe over the next three years in an effort to streamline its operations as it contends with economic headwinds and increasing competition on electric cars. The automaker said that 2,300 jobs will go in Germany. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

Ford to cut 3,800 jobs in Europe, mostly in Germany, U.K.

By Geir Moulson - Associated Press

In this image released by the New Zealand Defense Force on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023, people stand on a rooftop of a home waiting to be winched to safety by helicopter in the Esk Valley, near Napier, New Zealand. The New Zealand government declared a national state of emergency Tuesday after Cyclone Gabrielle battered the country's north in what officials described as the nation's most severe weather event in years. (New Zealand Defense Force via AP)

New Zealand fears more fatalities after cyclone kills 4

Associated Press

A baby girl who was born under the rubble caused by an earthquake that hit Syria and Turkey receives treatment inside an incubator at a children's hospital in the town of Afrin, Aleppo province, Syria, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. The infant, who has since been named Aya, Arabic for "sign from God," is one of untold numbers of orphans left by Monday's 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Syria and Turkey. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Gunmen storm hospital of newborn saved from quake in Syria

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm announces a major scientific breakthrough in fusion research that was made at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, during a news conference at the Department of Energy in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Biden energy secretary met with anti-gas stove group to discuss infrastructure law, official says

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Zafer Mahmut Boncuk, 60, screams angrily next to the body of his dead mother, Ozcan Bencuk, in Antakya, southeastern Turkey, Saturday, February 11, 2023. Ozcan Boncuk, 75, was trapped during an earthquake that struck a border region of Turkey and Syria and died on Tuesday, a day later. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Turkey earthquake survivors seek hot meals as rescues wane

By Mehmet Guzel, Suzan Fraser and Sarah El Deeb - Associated Press

Illustration on Democrats abandoning agriculture and framing to China by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Democrats have abandoned agricultural economy, but conservatives have solutions

By John R. Block and Ed Schafer

Emergency teams search for people in the rubble of a destroyed building in Adana, southern Turkey, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. For Syrians and Ukrainians fleeing the violence back home, the earthquake that struck in Turkey and Syria is but the latest tragedy. The U.N. says Turkey hosts about 3.6 million Syrians who fled their country’s 12-year civil war, along with close to 320,000 people escaping hardships from other countries. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Turkey detains building contractors as quake deaths pass 33K

By Justin Spike and Suzan Fraser - Associated Press

A North Atlantic right whale feeds on the surface of Cape Cod bay off the coast of Plymouth, Mass., March 28, 2018. A group of Massachusetts lobster fishers has sued the federal government over an emergency closure of fishing grounds that is designed to protect a vanishing species of whale. The closure, enacted Feb. 1, 2023, blocked off about 200 square miles of Massachusetts Bay from lobster fishing until the end of April. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)

Lobster fishers sue to block closure meant to aid whales

By Patrick Whittle - Associated Press

Clark County Sheriff and Nevada Gov.-elect Joe Lombardo gives a victory speech during a news conference, Monday, Nov. 14, 2022, in Las Vegas. Lombardo ran against incumbent Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak. (AP Photo/Ellen Schmidt)

Pipeline leak shuts off gas deliveries from Los Angeles to Las Vegas and Phoenix

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

People bury their loved ones, victims of Monday earthquake, in Adiyaman, Turkey, Friday, Feb. 10, 2023. Emergency crews made a series of dramatic rescues in Turkey on Friday, pulling several people, some almost unscathed, from the rubble, four days after a catastrophic earthquake killed more than 20,000. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Survivors still being found as quake death toll tops 25,000

By Justin Spike, Abdelrahman and Suzan Fraser - Associated Press

People sit and stand around collapsed buildings in Golbasi, in Adiyaman province, southern Turkey, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023. The Turkish government has for years tempted fate by not enforcing modern construction codes at the same time it was allowing — and in some cases, encouraging — a real estate boom in earthquake-prone areas, according to experts in geology and engineering who repeatedly issued warnings. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Rescues in Turkey offer moments of relief in quake aftermath

By Justin Spike, Ghaith Alsayed and Suza Fraser - Associated Press

FILE - Local people gather in a school gymnasium being used as an evacuation center for those whose homes were damaged by the tsunami in Ofunato, Japan, on March 16, 2011. The 2011 quake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown in northern Japan provides a glimpse of what Turkey and Syria could face in the years ahead. No two events are alike, but the recent disaster resembles Japan's in the sheer enormity of the psychological trauma, of the loss of life and of the material destruction. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

Japan’s earthquake recovery offers hard lessons for Turkey

By Foster Klug - Associated Press

Rescuers and mother surround Adnan Mohammet Korkut after he was rescued in Gaziantep, southern Turkey, early Friday, Feb. 10, 2023. The teenager was pulled largely unscathed from beneath the rubble of a collapsed building in the Turkish city of Gaziantep early Friday, in a dramatic rescue that belied the reality that the chances of finding many more survivors four days after a catastrophic earthquake killed tens of thousands are shrinking fast. (IHA via AP)

Live Updates I Focus turns to quake aid, as rescues continue

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), delivers his speech after his reelection, during the 75th World Health Assembly at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, on May 24, 2022. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, File)

WHO: Risk of avian flu in humans is low — but might not stay that way

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm gets into the passenger seat after test driving a Ford F-150 Lighting all-electric vehicle during a visit to the Washington Auto Show in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023. Sec. Granholm’s four-day EV trip this summer through the southeast ran into charging woes for her caravan of three EVs, according to NPR, which was along for the ride. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Battery recycling firm wins $2B loan from Energy Department

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press