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FILE - Jennifer Homendy of the National Transportation Safety Board speaks during a news conference, Oct. 3, 2019, in Windsor Locks, Conn. On Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023, Homendy, the chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board, said she is concerned about the risk that heavy electric vehicles pose if they collide with lighter vehicles. (AP Photo/Chris Ehrmann, File)

U.S. official warns of risks posed by heavy electric vehicles

By Tom Krisher - Associated Press

Gen Nashimoto, of Luminalt, installs solar panels in Hayward, Calif., on April 29, 2020. California air regulators are set to approve an ambitious plan for the state to achieve carbon neutrality by 2045. Doing so will require a rapid transition away from oil and gas and toward renewable energy to power everything from cars to buildings. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)

Korean solar panel company announces massive expansion in Georgia

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

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)

Federal regulators reverse course on banning new gas stoves

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Bans aren’t about health

Following days of rain, floodwaters surround homes and vehicles in the Planada community of Merced County, Calif., on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Landslides, sinkholes, floodwaters plague soggy California

By Brian Melley and Christopher Weber - Associated Press

Marines from 1st Squad, 3rd Platoon, Alpha Company, climb out of a river during the endurance course. The endurance course is a 3.8 mile obstacle course through the jungle, which the students had to complete in order to pass the Basic Jungle Warfare Skills course. Alpha Company, from the Landing Force participating in the bilateral exercise Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training 2010, went to the Jungle Warfare Training Center, Okinawa, Japan, March 22 to April 2. They completed the Basic Jungle Warfare Skills course which included basic infantry skills, hasty repel classes, land navigation classes and patrolling in the jungle.

Marine Corps to form new unit in Okinawa with missiles to take on China

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Gas pumps are shown at a gas station in Frankfurt, Germany, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. Drivers in the U.S. and Europe are getting a break from the record-high pump prices they endured over the summer. But that price tag is still difficult for many customers who have been enduring relentless inflation and were used to lower prices. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

Soaring diesel prices add to inflationary pressures

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times

A cleaning crew walks through floodwaters in the Rio Del Mar neighborhood of Aptos, Calif., Monday, Jan. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Nic Coury)

Rain to persist as storm-weary Californians face evacuations

By Christopher Weber and Stefanie Dazio - Associated Press

Environmental Protection Agency administrator Michael Regan speaks at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, in Greensboro, N.C., April 14, 2022. The EPA is designating some toxic industrial compounds used in cookware, carpets and firefighting foams as hazardous substances under the so-called Superfund law. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Biden administration touts $100 million in environmental justice as GOP emphasizes energy costs

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

In this photo provided by climate scientist Rob Jackson, researcher Colin Finnegan injects an ethane tracer to measure kitchen chamber volume in Stanford, Calif., in 2021. According to a study published Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022, in the journal Environmental Science &amp; Technology, gas stoves are worse for the climate than previously thought because of constant tiny methane leaks even while they’re off. (Rob Jackson via AP) **FILE**

Federal agency weighs banning new gas stoves over health risks

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Comet NEOWISE is seen from Grandfather Mountain in Linville, N.C., Saturday, July 18, 2020. A different comet not pictured here, C/2022 E3 (ZTF), will pass the Sun at its closest point Thursday, letting it possibly become visible to observers in the Northern Hemisphere while the sky is clear and dark. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

Green comet to pass closest to sun this week, might be visible in Northern Hemisphere

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

This undated photo provided by Virgin Orbit on Monday, Jan. 9, 2023, shows the LauncherOne rocket in a hanger at Spaceport Cornwall, at Cornwall Airport in Newquay, England. Engineers are making final preparations for the first satellite launch from the U.K. later Monday, when a repurposed passenger plane is expected to release a Virgin Orbit rocket carrying several small satellites into space. (Virgin Orbit via AP)

Virgin Orbit satellite launch out of Britain manages to reach space, but falls short of orbit

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

People walk across a slope in Filzmoos, Austria, on Jan. 6, 2023. Europe has dodged an energy apocalypse this winter, economists and officials say, thanks to unusually warm weather and efforts to find other sources of natural gas after Russia cut off most of its supply to the continent. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)

Europe has avoided energy collapse. But is the crisis over?

By David McHugh - Associated Press

A lobster rears its claws after being caught off Spruce Head, Maine, Aug. 31, 2021. Environmental groups are once again at odds with politicians and fishermen in New England in the wake of a decision by high-end retail giant Whole Foods to stop selling Maine lobster. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Maine lobster fishermen must now report what they catch

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Drivers work their way out of Dallas during rush hour, July 1, 2016. The number of traffic deaths on U.S. roadways fell slightly during the first nine months of 2022, but pedestrian and cyclist deaths continue to rise. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

Traffic jams grow in many cities as more return to work

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell attends a Central Bank Symposium at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm, Sweden Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023. Senior central bank officials and prominent academics participated in four panels that address central bank independence from various angles – climate, payments, mandates and global policy coordination. (Claudio Bresciani/TT News Agency via AP)

Powell: Fed has only narrow role to play on climate change

By Christopher Rugaber and David Mchugh - Associated Press

People look at a John Deere electric excavator at the John Deere booth during the CES tech show Friday, Jan. 6, 2023, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)

CES 2023: Companies tout environmental tech innovations

By Brittany Peterson - Associated Press

The storm-swollen San Lorenzo River floods land along Ocean Street Extension in Santa Cruz, Calif., at right, on Monday, Jan. 9, 2023. evacuation orders were issued in coastal, woodsy Santa Cruz County for about 32,000 residents living near rain-swollen rivers and creeks, said Melodye Serino, the deputy county administrative officer. The San Lorenzo River was declared at flood stage, and drone footage showed numerous homes sitting in muddy brown water, the top halves of autos peeking out. (Shmuel Thaler/The Santa Cruz Sentinel via AP)

Boy swept away as California deluge forces mass evacuations

By Christopher Weber and Stefanie Dazio - Associated Press

COVID hospitalizations on the rise with older Americans

FILE - Smoke from the Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak Fire drifts over Las Vegas, N.M., in May 7, 2022. New Mexico's congressional delegation says the U.S. government should make changes to rules proposed for processing damage claims stemming from a historic wildfire sparked by forest managers. The delegation sent a letter to FEMA this week, saying many residents in the impoverished rural area are still reeling from the emotional, financial and physical tolls of the Hermit's Peak-Calf Canyon Fires. (Robert Browman/The Albuquerque Journal via AP, File).

New Mexico delegation seeks changes to wildfire aid rules

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