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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)

The Great Undoing: Biden’s squeeze on oil and gas leasing drains conservation fund

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

This July 15, 2019, photo shows a Domino's location in Norwood, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) **FILE**

Domino’s Pizza adding hundreds of electric vehicles to delivery fleet

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

One of Pacific Gas &amp; Electric's Diablo Canyon Power Plant's nuclear reactors in Avila Beach, Calif., is viewed Nov. 3, 2008. 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. The Energy Department said it was creating a path forward for the Diablo Canyon Power Plant to remain open, with the final terms to be negotiated and finalized. The money could help the plant stay open beyond its planned 2025 closure. (AP Photo/Michael A. Mariant, File)

Feds offer $1B to keep California’s last nuclear plant open

By Jennifer McDermott and Matthew Daly - Associated Press

Cars drive through blowing, drifting snow on McKinley Parkway in Hamburg in Erie County, N.Y., Sunday, Nov. 20, 2022. (Mark Mulville/The Buffalo News via AP)

Biden approves disaster declaration for N.Y. after historic snowfall

By Tom Howell Jr. - 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. Stiell acknowledges nations didn’t do anything additional to address climate change itself at the summit, reducing emissions of heat-trapping gases. The progress made last year at the meeting in Glasgow was maintained, he said. “There was no backtracking&quot;. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

U.N. climate boss settles for no cuts on emissions

By Seth Borenstein - Associated Press

Rescuers search for survivors at the ruins of houses damaged by an earthquake in Cianjur, West Java, Indonesia, Monday, Nov. 21, 2022. The strong, shallow earthquake toppled buildings and collapsed walls on Indonesia's densely populated main island of Java on Monday, killing a number of people and injuring hundreds as people rushed into the streets, some covered in blood and white debris. (AP Photo/Rangga Firmansyah)

Quake topples houses in Indonesia’s Java; at least 162 dead

By Firman Taufiq and Edna Tarigan - Associated Press

A man cooks food on a potbelly stove on the stairs entrance of an apartment building in Lyman, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2022. The situation in Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, and other major cities has deteriorated drastically following the largest missile attack on the country's power grid on Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022. Ukrainian state-owned grid operator Ukrenergo reported that 40% of Ukrainians were experiencing difficulties, due to damage to at least 15 major energy hubs across the country. (AP Photo/Andriy Andriyenko)

Ukraine urges civilians to leave liberated areas for winter

By John Leicester - Associated Press

Ships are docked offshore in Honiara, the capital of the Solomon Islands, Nov. 24, 2018. Lawmakers in the Solomon Islands voted Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022, to delay their nation's general election from next year until 2024, a move that opponents say amounts to a power grab and that some fear could lead to further civil unrest. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Tsunami warning as magnitude 7 earthquake strikes Solomon Islands

By Nick Perry - Associated Press

A group of manatees are pictured in a canal where discharge from a nearby Florida Power & Light plant warms the water in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Dec. 28, 2010. Manatees that are dying by the hundreds mainly from pollution-caused starvation in Florida should once again be listed as an endangered species, environmental groups said in a petition Monday, Nov, 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

Endangered status sought for manatees as hundreds starve

By Curt Anderson - Associated Press

A hand reads &quot;pay&quot; calling for reparations for loss and damage at the COP27 U.N. Climate Summit, Friday, Nov. 18, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Climate reparations get cold shoulder from activists, conservatives ahead of expected GOP roadblock

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Earthquake survivors are treated outside of a hospital in Cianjur, West Java, Indonesia, Monday, Nov. 21, 2022. An earthquake shook Indonesia's main island of Java on Monday damaging dozens of buildings and sending residents into the capital's streets for safety. (AP Photo/Kholid)

Indonesia quake death toll rises to 268; 151 still missing

By Andi Jatmiko and Edna Tarigan - Associated Press

A sniper unit aims towards Russian positions, Kherson region, southern Ukraine, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Nuclear agency warns of renewed shelling at Ukrainian plant

Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2015 file photo, TC Energy's Keystone pipeline facility is seen in Hardisty, Alberta. The U.S. government took a step toward approving expanding the capacity of a natural gas pipeline in the Pacific Northwest — a move opposed by environmentalists and the attorneys general of Oregon, California and Washington state. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or FERC, announced Friday, Nov. 18, 2022 that it has completed an environmental impact statement that concluded the project &quot;would result in limited adverse impacts on the environment.” (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP, File)

Environmental groups oppose pipeline expansion in Pacific NW

By Andrew Selsky - Associated Press

Letters and drawings left behind are gathered at the Youth Pavilion at the COP27 U.N. Climate Summit, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Last minute objections threaten historic UN climate deal

By Seth Borenstein and Samy Magdy and Frank Jordans - Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks at the COP27 U.N. Climate Summit, Friday, Nov. 11, 2022, at Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Freedom dies in Biden’s climate madness

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

A pigeons sits by a window mesh inside the house of a Kashmiri pigeon handler in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, June 17, 2022. The centuries-old tradition of pigeon keeping has remained ingrained to life in the old quarters of Srinagar where flocks of pigeons on rooftops, in the courtyards of mosques and shrines and around marketplaces are a common sight. Many of these are domesticated, raised by one of the thousands of pigeon keepers there. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

Researchers working in Papua New Guinea find bird unseen by scientists since 1882

The Washington Times

U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg attends a groundbreaking ceremony for the New Portal North Bridge project held in Kearny, N.J., Monday, Aug 1, 2022. A group of environmental and racial justice organizations filed a lawsuit in federal court Thursday, Nov. 17, against the U.S. Department of Transportation and Buttigieg. The lawsuit aims to halt a Gulf Coast road project that the group says will harm the environment near historic Black neighborhoods. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah, File)

Environmental groups sue DOT over Mississippi road project

By Michael Goldberg - Associated Press

Zoo Berlin is written on a facade at the entrance to the Berlin Zoo in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Nov. 18, 2022. The Berlin Zoo shut its doors to visitors after one of its aquatic birds tested positive for avian flu, the facility said Friday. (Monika Skolimowska/dpa via AP)

Berlin Zoo closes door to visitors over bird flu case

Associated Press

Lauren Latour, of Canada, participates in a demonstration on fossil fuels at the COP27 U.N. Climate Summit, Friday, Nov. 18, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Crunch time for U.N. climate talks as Friday deadline looms

By Frank Jordans, Samy Magdy and Kelvin Chan - Associated Press

Shannon Beebe, an electrical worker for Sparks Energy, arrives in a marsh buggy to restore power lines running through a marsh in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida in Houma, La., Sept. 17, 2021. Weather disasters fueled by climate change now roll across the U.S. year-round, battering the nation's aging electric grid. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File) ** FILE **

W.H. announces billions in grant funding to upgrade transmission lines, revamp aging electrical grid

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times