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This satellite image made available by NOAA shows cloud cover over North America on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022 at 1:31 p.m. An arctic blast is bringing extreme cold, heavy snow and intense wind across much of the U.S. this week — just in time for the holidays. (NOAA via AP)

Power failures amplify calls for utility to rethink gas

By Jonathan Mattise and Travis Loller - Associated Press

A great egret flies above a great blue heron in a wetland inside the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge in Trenton, Mich., on Oct. 7, 2022. President Joe Biden’s administration on Friday, Dec. 30, announced a finalized rule for federal protection of hundreds of thousands of small streams, wetlands and other waterways, rolling back a Trump-era rule that environmentalists said left waterways vulnerable to pollution. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

EPA finalizes water rule that repeals Trump-era changes

By Jim Salter and Michael Phillis - Associated Press

Brazil's newly-named Minister of Indigenous Peoples Sonia Guajajara attends a meeting where Brazil's President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva announced the ministers for his incoming government, in Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, Dec. 29, 2022. Lula will be sworn-in on Jan. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil will have first Indigenous woman chief for key post

By Fabiano Maisonnave - Associated Press

Tourists look out onto the city skyline from Christmas Tree Point on top of Twin Peaks in San Francisco, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022. (Jessica Christian/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)

U.S. Census Bureau redefines meaning of ‘urban’ America

By Mike Schneider - Associated Press

Traffic along Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., streaks past the FBI headquarters building on Nov. 1, 2017. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

D.C. almost doubling its traffic enforcement cameras in 2023

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Mexican free-tailed bats huddle in an incubator as they recover from last week's freeze on Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2022, in Houston. The freezing temperatures caused the bats to go into hypothermic shock, lose their grip on their habitat and fall to the ground. Over 1,500 bats were rescued from the Waugh Street Bridge and in Pearland since last Friday. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

Houston bat population rescued after dropping from bridges in extreme cold snap

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Patrons dine by candelight at Red's Corner during the Moore County power outage, Monday, Dec. 5, 2022, in Southern Pines, N.C. Tens of thousands of people are bracing for days without electricity in Moore County where authorities say two power substations were shot up by one or more people with apparent criminal intent. (Kaitlin McKeown/The News & Observer via AP)

Attacks, vandalism on U.S. power grid alarm feds, spur order for security review

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

An officer collects passports from residents for renewal and re-applications at a community police station in Beijing, Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2022. China says it will resume issuing passports for tourism in another big step away from anti-virus controls that isolated the country for almost three years, setting up a potential flood of Chinese going abroad for next month's Lunar New Year holiday. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Lack of info on China’s COVID-19 surge stirs global concern

By Ken Moritsugu and Huizhong Wu - Associated Press

Vessel FSRU Exemplar, the floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, chartered by Finland to replace Russian gas, is seen moored at the Inkoo port, west of Helsinki, Wednesday Dec. 28, 2022. Finland has agreed a 10-year charter for the Exemplar floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) that will serve both its domestic and the Baltic market, providing additional resources as Europe grapples with an energy crisis. (Jussi Nukari/Lehtikuva via AP)

Finland gets floating LNG terminal to replace Russian gas

By Jari Tanner - Associated Press

FILE - A North Atlantic right whale feeds on the surface of Cape Cod bay off the coast of Plymouth, Mass., March 28, 2018. The fading North Atlantic right whale will remain protected under the Endangered Species Act and requires a series of protective steps to stave off extinction, federal authorities said Tuesday, Dec. 27 2022. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)

Feds: Vanishing right whale must remain on endangered list

By Patrick Whittle - Associated Press

The Tennessee Valley Authority's Bull Run Fossil Plant is shown in this photo taken Wednesday, June 15, 2005, in Clinton, Tenn. A coalition of environmental groups sued the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022, over its refusal to regulate some older coal ash dumps, claiming they are polluting air and groundwater. (AP Photo/Wade Payne, File)

Christmas power outages spur debate over fossil fuels’ future in Tennessee Valley

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Sense, not cash, on climate

FILE - Clouds are reflected off the City of Jackson's O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Facility's sedimentation basins in Ridgeland, Miss., Sept. 2, 2022. Officials in Jackson said the city's water system, which partially collapsed in late August, was experiencing “fluctuating” pressure on Saturday, Dec. 24, amid frigid temperatures. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Deep freeze breaks pipes, creates water crisis across South

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A gardener uses a leaf blower to clear leaves at a home in Sacramento, Calif., on Oct. 13, 2021. The California Air Resources Board on Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021, is considering banning the sale of new gas-powered lawn equipment starting in 2024. State regulators leaf say running a gas-powered leaf blower for one hour emits pollution comparable to driving a car for about 1100 miles, (1,770 kilometers.). A new law signed by Gov Gavin Newsom in October, required the board to adopt this rule. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Gas-powered lawn care meets sharp blade of state, local laws

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Transmission lines leading from the San Juan Generating Station near Waterflow, N.M., are seen Sept. 21, 2022. The power plant burned its last bit of coal before the end of September. Public Service Co. of New Mexico executives told state regulators during a recent meeting that they are still searching for options to replace some of the lost capacity for the 2023 peak season. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)

Attacks on Washington state electric substations cut power to 14,000

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President Joe Biden participates in a briefing on winter storms across the United States in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Biden signs provisions to find backup drinking water supply for District residents

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

Trees lie in an area of recent deforestation identified by agents of the Chico Mendes Institute in the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve, Acre state, Brazil, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022. Brazil's incoming president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has promised to eliminate all deforestation by 2030, which would be a complete change of course for Brazil compared to the last four years. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil’s Lula promises no deforestation but challenges loom

By Fabiano Maisonnave and Tatiana Pollastri and Eraldo Peres - Associated Press

This aerial image taken with a drone, shows the new Fern Hollow Bridge, that is being dedicated Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022 in Pittsburgh. After the original bridge collapsed into a ravine on Friday, Jan. 28, 2022, the Fern Hollow Bridge became a symbol of the country's troubled infrastructure. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

New bridge opens in Pittsburgh, replaces bridge that collapsed last year ahead of Biden visit

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FILE - A mobile phone customer looks at an earthquake warning application on an iPhone in Los Angeles on Jan. 3, 2019. Seconds before a magnitude 6.4 earthquake jolted the Northern California coast, an alert sent by phone warned 3 million people to &quot;Drop, cover, hold on.&quot; The event marked the greatest test yet to an earthquake warning system launched three years ago. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)

California earthquake puts early warning system to the test

By Sophie Austin - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, bottom center, attends a ruling party congress in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Jan. 12, 2021. North Korean hackers have stolen an estimated 1.5 trillion won ($1.2 billion) in cryptocurrency and other virtual assets in the past five years, more than half of it this year alone, South Korea’s spy agency said Thursday, December 2022. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)

Seoul: North Korean hackers stole $1.2B in virtual assets

By Hyung-jin Kim - Associated Press