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Oil and natural gas drilling accounted for 94% of funding for the Great American Outdoors Act projects in 2021. Biden restrictions for leasing sales on public lands have slowed the flow of money for the largest federal conservation program in 50 years. (Associated Press)

House GOP bill would empower states to regulate petroleum projects on federal land

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

A muskox stands at a specialty farm on July 9, 2010, in Palmer, Alaska. A court services officer with the Alaska State Troopers died Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022, after being attacked by a muskox outside his home near Nome, the agency said. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen, File)

Alaska state trooper killed fending off muskoxen from his dog kennel

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

In this 2013 photo, cone collectors like Gabe Thorne, of Hamilton, head up into the high country around the west to climb to the very top of whitebark pine and collect cones from disease-free trees in Sula, Mont. U.S. officials say climate change, beetles and a deadly fungus are imperiling the long-term survival of the high-elevation tree found in the western U.S. (Perry Backus/Ravalli Republic via AP, File)

Whitebark pine that feeds grizzlies is threatened, U.S. says

By Matthew Brown - Associated Press

SEC climate rules and taxes Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

SEC climate rule will raise the price of everything

By Gerard Scimeca

Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is seen from around twenty kilometers away in an area in the Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine, Monday, Oct. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Leo Correa) **FILE**

U.N. watchdog to base staff at endangered Ukraine nuke plants

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Global Deflation Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Now progressives want to shrink the global economy

By Peter Morici

California Highway Patrol officer Mike Eshleman instructs a driver he may continue on Highway 2 in his 4-wheel drive vehicle as heavy snow falls near Wrightwood, Calif., on Monday, Dec. 12, 2022. (Will Lester/The Orange County Register via AP)

Massive U.S. storm brings tornado warnings, blizzard threat

By Stephen Groves - Associated Press

A buoy sits high and dry on cracked earth previously under the waters of Lake Mead at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area near Boulder City, Nev., on June 28, 2022. Living with less water in the U.S. Southwest is the focus of a conference starting Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022, in Las Vegas, about the drought-stricken and overpromised Colorado River. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Colorado River water users convening amid crisis concerns

By Ken Ritter - Associated Press

War on energy will devastate

FILE - People watch lava from the Mauna Loa volcano Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022, near Hilo, Hawaii. U.S. scientists declared Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022, that two active Hawaii volcanoes — one where lava destroyed hundreds of homes in 2018 and another where lava recently stalled before reaching a crucial Big Island highway — have stopped erupting. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

2 Hawaii volcanoes have stopped erupting, scientists declare

By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher - Associated Press

South Korean special representative for Korean Peninsula Peace and Security Affairs Kim Gunn, left, shakes hands with Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director General for Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau Takehiro Funakoshi, right, as U.S. special representative for North Korea who is also U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia, Sung Y. Kim, center, looks on at the star of their trilateral meeting on North Korea at the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

U.S., South Korea, Japan to curb illicit North Korea cyber activities

By Niniek Karmini and Hyung-Jin Kim - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016 file photo, dead common murres lie washed up on a rocky beach in Whittier, Alaska. Arctic seabirds unable to find enough food in warmer ocean waters are just one sign of the vast changes in the polar region, where the climate is being transformed faster than anywhere else on Earth. An annual report, to be released Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022 by U.S. scientists, also documents rising Arctic temperatures and disappearing sea ice. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen, File)

Starving seabirds on Alaska coast show climate change peril

By Christina Larson - Associated Press

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., speaks during a news conference Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Dems take another stab at Manchin’s ‘zombie’ energy bill that ‘won’t stay dead’

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

This undated image provided by the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory shows the NIF Target Bay in Livermore, Calif. The system uses 192 laser beams converging at the center of this giant sphere to make a tiny hydrogen fuel pellet implode. Officials at the Department of Energy said on Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022, there will be an announcement of a “major scientific breakthrough” in nuclear fusion. (Damien Jemison/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory via AP, File)

Fusion breakthrough could be climate, energy game-changer

By Matthew Daly, Michael Phillis, Jennifer McDermott and Maddie Burakoff - Associated Press

Activists sit on newly installed shipping containers along the border creating a wall between the United States and Mexico in San Rafael Valley, Ariz., Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022. Work crews are steadily erecting hundreds of double-stacked shipping containers along the rugged east end of Arizona’s boundary with Mexico as Republican Gov. Doug Ducey makes a bold show of border enforcement even as he prepares to step aside next month for Democratic Governor-elect Katie Hobbs. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

DHS to close more ‘gaps’ Biden’s halt left in border wall

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Illustration on measures a Republican congress should implement by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

What a Republican House majority must do

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

A passenger is seen boarding a Metrobus in downtown Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) ** FILE **

Free ride: D.C. unveils bold plan to boost public transit

By Hope Yen - Associated Press

This undated image provided by the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory shows the NIF Target Bay in Livermore, Calif. The system uses 192 laser beams converging at the center of this giant sphere to make a tiny hydrogen fuel pellet implode. Officials at the Department of Energy said on Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022, there will be an announcement of a “major scientific breakthrough” in nuclear fusion. (Damien Jemison/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory via AP, File)

Granholm to announce ‘major scientific breakthrough’ in quest to harness fusion

By Michael Phillis, Jennifer McDermott and Madddie Burakoff and Matthew Daly - Associated Press

In this handout photo released by Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service, smoke rises from the mall in Balashikha, just outside Moscow, Russia, Monday, Dec. 12, 2022. A massive fire has gutted a shopping mall on Moscow's eastern outskirts, the second such blaze in four days. Monday's blaze at the mall in Balashikha that trades in construction items and decorative materials first erupted at a storage area and later spread to part of the building. The fire teams managed to localize it at the area of about 3,000 square meters (about 32,300 square feet) and prevent it from engulfing the entire mall. (Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service via AP)

Fire engulfs another Moscow mall, 2nd such fire in 4 days

Associated Press

In this aerial image provided by the U.S. Geological Survey, fissure 3 is seen erupting on the Northeast Rift Zone of Mauna Loa on the Big Island of Hawaii, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022. The world's largest volcano continues to erupt but scientists say lava is no longer feeding the flow front that has been creeping toward a crucial highway. That means the flow isn't advancing and is no longer an imminent threat to the road that connects the east and west sides of the Big Island. (U.S. Geological Survey via AP)

Scientists say eruption of Hawaii volcano continues to ease

Associated Press