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Emissions from a coal-fired power plant are silhouetted against the setting sun in Kansas City, Mo., on Feb. 1, 2021. The Supreme Court on Thursday, June 30, 2022, limited how the nation’s main anti-air pollution law can be used to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. By a 6-3 vote, with conservatives in the majority, the court said that the Clean Air Act does not give the Environmental Protection Agency broad authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants that contribute to global warming. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) **FILE**

EPA wants to know how it should spend $3 billion on climate justice

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

SEC climate disclosure rule proposal illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times

SEC has no business punishing companies for climate-related activities

By Dan Savickas

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

An aerial view of the al-Tlul village flooded after a devastating earthquake destroyed a river dam in the town of Salqeen near the Turkish border, Idlib province, Syria, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Days after quake, aid trucks reach northwest Syrian enclave

By Kareen Chehayeb and Fay Abuelgasim and Omar Albam - Associated Press

President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023, in Washington. Biden has sparked a firestorm after saying in his State of the Union address that the United States will need oil “for at least another decade.″ Republicans laughed at Biden’s off-the-cuff remark, which was not in his scripted speech. GOP lawmakers accuse the Democratic president of refusing to accept reality and “living in a green hallucination.″ (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Biden’s oil comments spark debate over energy production

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

Collapsed buildings in Golbasi, in Adiyaman province, southern Turkey, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023. Thinly stretched rescue teams worked through the night in Turkey and Syria, pulling more bodies from the rubble of thousands of buildings toppled by a catastrophic earthquake. The death toll rose Wednesday to more than 10,000, making the quake the deadliest in more than a decade. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Survivors of Turkey, Syria quake struggle to stay warm, fed

By Mehmet Guzel, Ghaith Alsayed, Suzan Fraser and Zeynep Bilginsoy - Associated Press

Stepping on the gas: Energy industry, builders fight gas appliance bans

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times

People try to reach people trapped under the debris of a collapsed building in Malatya, Turkey, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. Search teams and aid are pouring into Turkey and Syria as rescuers working in freezing temperatures dig through the remains of buildings flattened by a magnitude 7.8 earthquake. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Live Updates | Turkey, Syria quake is deadliest since 2015

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

In this Jan. 11, 2006, file photo, a gas-lit flame burns on a natural gas stove in Stuttgart, Germany. (AP Photo/Thomas Kienzle, File)

D.C. has something cookin’ for residents: Money to replace gas stoves

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

A North Atlantic right whale feeds on the surface of Cape Cod bay off the coast of Plymouth, Mass., March 28, 2018. On Friday, Jan. 20, 2023, the federal government denied a request from a group of environmental organizations to immediately apply proposed ship speed restrictions in an effort to save right whales, a vanishing species. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)

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Volunteers distribute aid to people in Antakya, southern Turkey, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023. Thinly stretched rescue teams worked through the night into Wednesday, pulling more bodies from the rubble of thousands of buildings downed in Turkey and Syria by a catastrophic earthquake. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Hope fading as deaths in Turkey, Syria quake pass 11,000

By Mehmet Guzel, Ghaith Alsayed and Suzan Fraser - Associated Press

A man takes photos as a black plume rises over East Palestine, Ohio, as a result of a controlled detonation of a portion of the derailed Norfolk Southern train, Feb. 6, 2023. After toxic chemicals were released into the air from a wrecked train in Ohio, evacuated residents remain in the dark about what toxic substances are lingering in their vacated neighborhoods while they await approval to return home. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Toxic gases connected to Ohio train derailment cause concern

By Brittany Peterson and Seth Borenstein - Associated Press

Illustration on Biden's climate control and natural gas prices by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Climate czar Biden spiked heat, electricity bills

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Low water levels at Wahweap Bay at Lake Powell along the Upper Colorado River Basin are shown, June 9, 2021, at the Utah and Arizona border at Wahweap, Ariz. The Biden administration announced Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023, that 15 Native American tribes will get a total of $580 million in federal money this year for water rights settlements. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Colorado River caucus forms to address water crisis in basin states

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

This Feb. 26, 2021, file photo shows an oil well east of Casper, Wyo. Booming oil and gas revenue has put Wyoming back among states with big budget surpluses but Republican Gov. Mark Gordon cautioned lawmakers Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023, to save, not splurge, out of concern that tough times will eventually return. (AP Photo/Mead Gruver, File)

Biden’s knock of Big Oil reignites partisan energy debate

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

FILE - Solar panels on rooftops of a housing development in Folsom, Calif., Feb. 12, 2020. Georgia lawmakers are looking to regulate the installation of rooftop solar panels, saying some companies are ripping off consumers. The House Energy, Telecommunications and Utilities Committee voted unanimously Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023, to advance House Bill 73, which would require companies that install panels at residences to be certified by the state Public Service Commission and make certain basic disclosures to consumers. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Georgia lawmakers seek to regulate solar panel installers

By Jeff Amy - Associated Press

In this Feb. 15, 2006, photo, BlackRock headquarters is shown in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihand) **FILE**

Texas’ massive public pension drops BlackRock, other ‘anti-oil’ investment firms

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Illustration on government subsidization of the solar energy industry by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Congress right to defend U.S. solar makers against China

By Michael Stumo

A car is seen under the wreckage of a collapsed building, in Azmarin town, in Idlib province, northern Syria, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. A powerful earthquake has caused significant damage in southeast Turkey and Syria and many casualties are feared. Damage was reported across several Turkish provinces, and rescue teams were being sent from around the country. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Live Updates | Turkey, Syria earthquake search intensifies

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. Residents in a northwest Syrian town discovered a crying infant whose mother gave birth to her while buried underneath the rubble of a five-story apartment building leveled by this week's devastating earthquake, relatives and a doctor said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Newborn, toddler saved from rubble in quake-hit Syrian town

By Ghaith Alsayed and Bassem Mroue - Associated Press