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A smokestack stands at a coal plant on June 22, 2022, in Delta, Utah. NASA on Tuesday, Nov. 29, announced that its GeoCarb mission, which was supposed to be a low-cost satellite to monitor carbon dioxide, methane and how plant life changes over North and South America, was being killed because of cost overruns. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

NASA cancels greenhouse gas monitoring satellite due to cost

By Seth Borenstein - Associated Press

John Beezley, of Bonham, carts out several cases of water after learning that a boil water notice was issued for the entire city of Houston on Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022, at Walmart on S. Post Oak Road in Houston. Beezley just arrived in town with his wife, who is undergoing treatment starting tomorrow at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, where they are staying in a camping trailer. They turned on the television after settling in and saw that a boil water notice had been issued. Beezley decided to go out immediately fearing that by tomorrow people would be buying up all of the available water. (Mark Mulligan/Houston Chronicle via AP)

Houston lifts boil-water order affecting more than 2 million

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Illustration on the UN's COP27 latest climate initiative against U.S. by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

COP27 indictment: Americans are climate criminals and must pay

By Clifford D. May

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, an image captured off a screen at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China shows the Shenzhou-15 and Shenzhou-14 crew taking a group picture with their thumbs up after a historic gathering in space on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022. Three Chinese astronauts docked early Wednesday with their country's space station, where they will overlap for several days with the three-member crew already onboard and expand the facility to its maximum size. (Guo Zhongzheng/Xinhua via AP)

Chinese spaceship with 3 aboard docks with space station

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Mauna Loa is seen from the Gilbert Kahele Recreation Area off Saddle Road on the Big Island of Hawaii on Oct. 27, 2022. The ground is shaking and swelling at Mauna Loa, the largest active volcano in the world, indicating that it could erupt. Scientists say they don't expect that to happen right away but officials on the Big Island are telling residents to be prepared in case it does erupt soon. (AP Photo/Megan Moseley)

Hawaii’s Mauna Loa starts to erupt, sending ash nearby

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This image provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) shows a colorized transmission electron micrograph of monkeypox particles (red) found within an infected cell (blue), cultured in the laboratory that was captured and color-enhanced at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Md. The World Health Organization has renamed monkeypox as mpox, citing concerns the original name of the decades-old animal disease could be construed as discriminatory and racist. (NIAID via AP, File)

WHO renames monkeypox as mpox, citing racism concerns

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Britain's Prince William and Kate, Duchess of Cambridge visit the Church on the Street in Burnley, England, Jan. 20, 2022. Prince William and the Princess of Wales will make their first trip to the U.S. in eight years this week, hoping to focus attention on his Earthshot Prize for environmental innovators. (Danny Lawson/Pool photo via AP, File)

Prince William focuses U.S. trip on climate amid Harry row

By Danica Kirka - Associated Press

In this July 8, 2019, file photo, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer looks on during an operation in Escondido, Calif. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File) **FILE**

ICE employees say agency canceled their union but still collected dues

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Simon Stiell, U.N. climate chief, speaks during a closing plenary session at the COP27 U.N. Climate Summit, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

COP27’s green agenda will leave many out in the cold this winter

By Richard W. Rahn

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)

Whole Foods decision to pull lobster divides enviros, pols

By Patrick Whittle - Associated Press

Amazon workers join Black Friday walkout, strike in 40 countries

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

A 'Lufthansa' ariplane is parked in front of Terminal 1 after its arrival at the new Berlin-Brandenburg-Airport 'Willy Brandt' in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, Oct. 31, 2020. Berlin's new airport opens after years of delays and cost overruns. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn) **FILE**

‘Last Generation’ climate activists glue themselves to Berlin airport runway to block flights

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Global Control of U.S. Tax Money for reparations Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Climate cult meets reparations lunacy

By Tom Basile

President Joe Biden speaks during a news conference at the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit, Nov. 2, 2021, in Glasgow, Scotland. Shortly after Biden took office, he issued what was widely hailed as a landmark executive order calling for the U.S. government to address the impact of climate change on migration. Since then, however, the Biden administration has done little more than study the idea. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Biden’s new climate change rules would smack government contractors with a $604 billion bill

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Ukrainian servicemen fire towards Russian positions in the frontline near Kherson, southern Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Ukraine works to restore power after bruising Russian attack

By Hanna Arhirova - Associated Press

FILE - People look at Edvard Munch's "The Scream" at the National Gallery in Oslo, Norway, Sunday Jan. 13, 2019. On Friday, Nov. 11, 2022, activists from the organization ''Stopp oljeletinga'' (Stop Oil Exploration) tried to glue themselves to the frame of the painting. (Heiko Junge/NTB Scanpix via AP, file)

Climate change extremists come unglued

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, speaks at a news conference during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Wednesday, May 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Bill Gates was among first to meet with Biden’s energy secretary: Report

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Specially equipped cars sit in a parking lot Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022, in Nashville, Tenn. In a study, the cars' cruise control was modified to react to the overall flow of traffic using artificial intelligence. The aim is to influence a phenomenon called a phantom traffic jam — the start-and-stop congestion on crowded roads that has no obvious cause. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Researchers: AI in connected cars eased rush hour congestion

By Travis Loller - Associated Press

Cargo vessels are anchored offshore near oil platforms, before heading into the Los Angeles-Long Beach port on Oct. 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Eugene Garcia, File)

Offshore oil and gas rigs could be targets of another cyberattack

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Colombian environmental engineer Germán Viasus Tibamoso, owner of Tierra Viva, holds a Hercules beetle in Tunja, Colombia, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022. The company transforms solid, organic waste, with the help of beetle larvae's digestive microorganisms, that transform the waste into a compost rich in nitrogen and phosphorous. Once adults, the beetles are sent to scientific labs and others to Japan where they are popular as pets. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Hard-working Colombian beetles clean garbage, retire as pets

By Astrid Suàrez - Associated Press