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Traffic moves along along 99 south in Fresno, Calif., Dec. 28, 2017. Fresno displaced Fairbanks, Alaska as the metropolitan area with the worst short-term particle pollution, a 2022 report by the American Lung Association found, while Bakersfield, Calif., continued in the most-polluted slot for year-round particle pollution for the third year in a row. (John Walker/The Fresno Bee via AP)

EPA moves to toughen standards for deadly soot pollution

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

The Colorado River flows through the Grand Canyon on the Hualapai reservation Monday, Aug. 15, 2022, in northwestern Arizona. President Joe Biden has approved three bills that will improve access to water for three tribes in Arizona amid an unrelenting drought. One of the measures that Biden signed Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023 settles longstanding water rights claims for the Hualapai Tribe, whose reservation borders a 100-mile stretch of the Colorado River as it runs through the Grand Canyon. Hualapai will have the right to divert up to 3,414 acre-feet of water per year, along with the ability to lease it within Arizona (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Biden signs water bills benefiting 3 tribes in Arizona

By Felicia Fonseca - Associated Press

A yellow tag noting water levels is left on an unused irrigation well after the well's water level was measured by the Kansas Geological Survey Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023, near Marienthal, Kan. Lawmakers are looking to take up groundwater issues in western Kansas in the upcoming session as the Kansas Water Authority is urging stricter usage measures to try to slow the steady decline of water levels in the Ogallala Aquifer. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)(AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Warning about aquifer’s decline sets up big fight in Kansas

By John Hanna - Associated Press

This webcam image provided by the U.S. Geological Survey shows Hawaiis Kilauea volcano, from the west rim of the summit caldera, looking east, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023. Hawaii's Kilauea began erupting inside its summit crater Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, less than one month after the volcano and its larger neighbor Mauna Loa stopped releasing lava. ( U.S. Geological Survey via AP)

Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupts again, summit crater glows

By Audrey McAvoy - Associated Press

This photo provided by the U.S. Geological Survey shows the inside of the summit crater of the Kilauea Volcano on Friday, Jan. 6, 2023. Hawaii's Kilauea volcano has begun erupting less than one month after Kilauea and its larger neighbor Mauna Loa stopped releasing lava. (U.S. Geological Survey via AP)

Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano resumes eruptions, letting loose lava and volcanic smog

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Biden plans a regulation spree expected to exceed Obama’s red-tape bonanza

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

In this Sept. 13, 2018, file photo, Melissa Boerst, a Lithium Nevada Corp. geologist, points to an area of future exploration from a drill site at the Thacker Pass Project in Humboldt County, Nev. A high-stakes, year-long legal battle over a huge lithium mine planned in Nevada resumes Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023, with courtroom arguments from lawyers for the mining company, the federal agency that approved it and the rancher, tribes and conservationists who are fighting it. (Suzanne Featherston/The Daily Free Press via AP, File)

Joe Biden’s agenda, lithium mine, tribes, greens collide in Reno

By Scott Sonner - Associated Press

President Joe Biden arrives at the Felipe Angeles international airport in Zumpango, Mexico, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden tax credits out of reach for Americans with lower incomes

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Owner Matthew Coric climbs over a metal flood gate his family members helped install in front of Pink Onion, a pizzeria in the Mission District in San Francisco on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023. Pink Onion saw serious flooding and damage Saturday. Coric and family members were preparing for an upcoming storm. (Salgu Wissmath/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)

Evacuations ordered as California storm knocks out power

By Olga R. Rodriguez - Associated Press

A woman, who choses to remain anonymous, fills bags of sand offered at South Lake Tahoe Fire Rescue in South Lake Tahoe, Calif. on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023. (Brontë Wittpenn/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)

Huge storm hits California with damaging winds, heavy rains

By Olga R. Rodriguez - Associated Press

In a July 18, 2012 photo provided by the U.S. Navy, the guided-missile destroyer USS Chung-Hoon (DDG 93) and the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) are underway during a 2012 exercise. The guided-missile destroyer USS Chung Hoon made the passage from the South China Sea north through the 100-mile strait and into the East China Sea, said Navy Lt. Kristina Wiedemann, spokeswoman for the Seventh Fleet. (FILE, AP Photo/U.S. Navy, MC3 Ryan Mayes)

U.S. Navy warship sails through Taiwan Strait amid rising tensions

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Japanese flags are displayed along a shopping street during the Year of the Rabbit New Year holidays Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Japan offers cash for families to move out of Tokyo

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks as he poses for photos with Pacific Island leaders, including Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare, right, on the North Portico of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. The Biden administration is plowing ahead with plans to re-open the U.S. embassy in the Solomon Islands in a bid to counter China’s increasing assertiveness in the Pacific. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

US moves to reopen Solomon Islands embassy to counter China

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

A bucket wheel excavator is mining coal at the Garzweiler open-cast coal mine with wind turbines in the background in Luetzerath, Germany, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2022. Data published Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023 by a respected environmental think tank shows Germany likely missed its target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions last year, despite a massive effort by the new government to expand the use of renewable energy. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

Germany likely missed climate target again, activists angry

By Frank Jordans - Associated Press

The Palisades nuclear power plant in Covert Township, Mich., June 24, 2010. The Biden administration said Monday, Nov. 21, 2022, it is granting preliminary approval to spend up to $1.1 billion to help keep California's last operating nuclear power plant running. Approval of the funding came as the Energy Department turned down a request by the Palisades nuclear plant for funding to restart operations. The plant along Lake Michigan was shut down last spring after generating electricity for more than 50 years. (John Madill/The Herald-Palladium via AP) **FILE**

Nuclear power catching the eyes of Silicon Valley’s tech billionaires for clean energy alternative

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

The tanker "Maria Energy", left, loaded with liquefied natural gas, is moored at the floating terminal, the special ship "Hoegh Esperanza", in Wilhelmshaven, Germany, Tuesday Jan. 3, 2023. For the first time since the terminal opened in Wilhelmshaven, a tanker has arrived there with a full cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG). (Sina Schuldt/dpa via AP)

1st tanker carrying LNG from U.S. arrives in Germany

Associated Press

In this Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018, file photo, an Egret looks for food along Valhalla Pond in Riverview, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, File)

EPA reverses Trump-era rule to reinstate waterway regulations that GOP calls ‘overreaching’

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Illustration on the United Nations' 30-by-30 plan by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

The U.N.’s 30-by-30 plan would undermine true conservation efforts

By Gabriella Hoffman

Three vehicles are submerged on Dillard Road west of Highway 99 in south Sacramento County in Wilton, Calif., Sunday, Jan. 1, 2023, after heavy rains on New Year's Eve produced levee breaks. Saturday's system was warmer and wetter, while storms this week will be colder, said Hannah Chandler-Cooley, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Sacramento. The Sacramento region could receive a total of 4 to 5 inches (10 to 13 centimeters) of rain over the week, Chandler-Cooley said. (Hector Amezcua/The Sacramento Bee via AP)

Evacuation warnings amid flooding after California storm

Associated Press

High winds and snow covers the streets and vehicles in Buffalo, N.Y. early Sunday, Dec. 25, 2022. Millions of people hunkered down in a deep freeze overnight and early morning to ride out the frigid storm that has killed at least 20 people across the United States, trapping some residents inside homes with heaping snow drifts and knocking out power to several hundred thousand homes and businesses. (WKBW via AP)

When the power fails, lives can be threatened by policy and criminality

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times