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Environmental Protection Agency administrator Michael Regan speaks at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, in Greensboro, N.C., April 14, 2022. The EPA is designating some toxic industrial compounds used in cookware, carpets and firefighting foams as hazardous substances under the so-called Superfund law. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

EPA to designate ‘forever chemicals’ as hazardous substances

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare, right, locks arms with visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Honiara, Solomon Islands on May 26, 2022. A U.S. coast guard cutter conducting patrols as part of an international mission to prevent illegal fishing was recently unable to get clearance for a scheduled port call in the Solomon Islands, according to reports, an incident that comes amid growing concerns of Chinese influence on the Pacific nation. (Xinhua via AP, File)

Report: U.S. Coast Guard ship denied port call in Solomons

By David Rising - Associated Press

FILE - A North Atlantic right whale appears at the surface on March 28, 2018, off the coast of Plymouth, Mass. Lawyers for a lobster fishing union in Maine said Friday, Aug. 26, 2022, that they have decided to drop part of its lawsuit against the federal government over new restrictions meant to protect rare whales. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)

Lobster fishing union drops lawsuit about new whale closure

By Patrick Whittle - Associated Press

In this file photo, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin speaks during a news conference in Richmond, Va., Thursday, May 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Steve Helber) ** FILE **

GOP leaders vow to untie Virginia from California’s vehicle rules

By Sarah Rankin - Associated Press

FILE -- In this Jan. 25, 2008 file photo, cows graze in a field near snow covered Lizard Butte just outside Marsing, Idaho. The United States is seeking to invalidate a series of Idaho laws passed in the last five years that create a path through the Idaho Department of Water Resources for ranchers to take over federal instream water rights through a state-approved forfeiture procedure. (Greg Kreller/Idaho Press-Tribune via AP, File)

U.S. seeks to invalidate Idaho water rights forfeiture laws

By Keith Ridler - Associated Press

A man walks on a pedestrian crossing point near the Dnipro river and Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant on the other side in Nikopol, Ukraine, Aug, 22, 2022. Ukrainians are once again anxious and alarmed about the fate of a nuclear power plant in a land that was home to the world’s worst atomic accident in 1986 at Chernobyl. The Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, Europe’s largest, has been occupied by Russian forces since early in the war, and continued fighting nearby has heightened fears of a catastrophe that could affect nearby towns in southern Ukraine or beyond. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

Ukrainian nuclear plant temporarily cut off from power grid

By Frank Jordans and Hanna Arhirova - Associated Press

People sit in a shallow pool of water in the riverbed of the Jialing River, a tributary of the Yangtze, in southwestern China's Chongqing Municipality, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2022. The very landscape of Chongqing, a megacity that also takes in surrounding farmland and steep and picturesque mountains, has been transformed by an unusually long and intense heat wave and an accompanying drought. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Car-charging stations, factories shut down in China as drought cripples hydroelectric power

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, center, presides over a Cabinet meeting at the presidential office in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. (Suh Myung-geon/Yonhap via AP)

South Korea signs $2.25 billion deal with Russia nuclear company

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A man walks on a pedestrian crossing point near the Dnipro river and Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant on the other side in Nikopol, Ukraine, Aug, 22, 2022. Ukrainians are once again anxious and alarmed about the fate of a nuclear power plant in a land that was home to the world’s worst atomic accident in 1986 at Chernobyl. The Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, Europe’s largest, has been occupied by Russian forces since early in the war, and continued fighting nearby has heightened fears of a catastrophe that could affect nearby towns in southern Ukraine or beyond. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

Ukrainian fears run high over fighting near nuclear plant

By Frank Jordans and Hanna Arhirova - Associated Press

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee speaks on Jan. 11, 2022, at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. Gov. Inslee has tested positive for COVID-19, his office said Wednesday, May 25, 2022, the same day state health officials urged people to wear face mask indoors as case counts steadily rise. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Washington to follow California in phasing out gas vehicles by 2035

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FILE - The aftermath of a retention pond wall collapse at the TVA Kingston Fossil Plant in Harriman, Tenn., is seen on Dec. 22, 2008. 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)

Groups sue Environmental Protection Agency over coal ash

By Travis Loller - Associated Press

Colter Bay Marina remains closed for the summer due to the low water levels of Jackson Lake on Thursday, Aug. 23, 2022, at Grand Teton National Park in Moran, Wyo. When officials of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City sought a location for an annual economic symposium in 1981, they chose Jackson Hole, Wyo., for a simple reason: It had fly-fishing. Paul Volcker, the Fed chairman at the time, was known to enjoy the pastime. Now, however, warmer waters in Jackson Lake and the Snake River it empties into have led the Park Service to urge anglers to restrict their fishing to the morning hours. (AP Photo/Amber Baesler)

Climate change alters life at Fed’s Jackson Hole conference

By Christopher Rugaber - Associated Press

Cars are parked at an electric charging station in San Francisco, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022. California is poised to required 100% of new cars, trucks and SUVs sold in the state to be powered by electricity or hydrogen by 2035. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

California to ban sales of gas-fueled vehicles by 2035 in effort to combat climate change

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

The sun rises behind the landfall facility of the Nord Stream 1 Baltic Sea pipeline and the transfer station of the OPAL gas pipeline, the Baltic Sea Pipeline Link, in Lubmin, Germany, Thursday, July 21, 2022. The operator of the major pipeline from Russia to Europe says natural gas has started flowing again after a 10-day shutdown for maintenance. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Failed energy policies are already killing people

By Michael McKenna

Fin Jones, of Falmouth, Mass., a member of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe, top center, and Jessica Tran, right, of St. Paul, Minn., work to remove invasive plant species at the Wampanoag Common Lands project, in Kingston, Mass., Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022. The project by the Native Land Conservancy is among efforts by tribes and other Native groups nationwide to reclaim and repair lands altered by western civilization. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Native groups seek to repair lands damaged by colonization

By Philip Marcelo - Associated Press

Solar panels are installed at a floating photovoltaic plant on a lake in Haltern, Germany, on April 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner) ** FILE **

Germany sees big jump in solar installations to curb dependence on Russian gas

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia speaks to reporters during a roundtable about the sprawling flagship climate and health care law recently signed by President Joe Biden at the West Virginia Lottery Headquarters in Charleston, W.Va., Friday, Aug. 19, 2022. Manchin, who chairs the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, played a key role in drafting the legislation, which places caps on prescription drug prices for seniors and extends subsidies meant to help Americans pay for health insurance and contains billions in incentives for clean energy. (AP Photo/Leah M. Willingham)

Hundreds of activist groups urge Democrats to betray Manchin on climate deal

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

This photo released by Qinling Giant Panda Research Center, shows newly born twin Panda cubs, male at left and female at right, at the center in Xi'an, in northwestern China's Shaanxi Province on Tuesday, Aug 23, 2022. The male cub weighed 176.4 grams while the female cub weighed 151.2 grams when they were born at the on Tuesday morning, according to the Qinling Panda Research Center. (Qinling Giant Panda Research Center via AP)

Panda twins born in China as species struggles for survival

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Rush hour traffic backs up along a highway in Beijing, China, on April 23, 2020. Hainan island in the South China Sea said Monday, Aug. 22, 2022 that it will become China's first region to ban sales of gasoline- and diesel-powered cars to curb climate-changing carbon emissions. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Chinese province plans ban on sale of gasoline cars

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Health workers wearing protective suits tend to an Ebola victim kept in an isolation tent in Beni, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Saturday, July 13, 2019. A new case of the Ebola virus has been confirmed in Congo’s eastern Beni city, Congo’s ministry of health announced Monday, Aug. 22, 2022, saying it is linked to a previous outbreak. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

Democratic Republic of Congo declares flare-up of Ebola after patient dies, WHO says

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times