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Cassandra Hunt of Lakewood, Colo., watches James Zillian of Falls Church, Va., sample a beer from the Ft. Collins, Colo., Odell Brewing Company, Thursday, Sept. 30, 2004 at the 23rd annual Great American Beer Festival in Denver. Zillian, a self-proclaimed beer historian and collector of beer related advertising, claims to have notes on over 3,000 beers he has sampled. The brewing festival and competition is sponsored by the Association of Brewers and runs through Saturday. (AP Photo/Rob Stuehrk) **FILE**

Supply chain woes, inflation threaten to put craft beer makers out of business

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times

Storks walk in front of harvesters in a wheat field in the village of Zghurivka, Ukraine, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. Before the war, Ukraine was seen as the world's bread basket, exporting 4.5 million tons of agricultural produce a month through its ports. Millions of tons of grain have been stuck due to Russian blockages since February. Under a deal brokered by Turkey and the UN last month, Russia agreed not to target ships in transit, and grain ships started to leave Ukraine as hopes grow for export stability. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Grain ship to dock in Ukraine, leave for Africa

By Susie Blann - Associated Press

The Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, south of Los Osos, Calif., is viewed Sept. 20, 2005. The California Energy Commission is holding a three-hour workshop focused on the state's power needs in the climate change era and what role the power plant might have in maintaining reliable electricity. (AP Photo/Michael A. Mariant, File)

Nuke or no nuke? California officials ponder nuclear future

By Michael R. Blood - Associated Press

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and state and local officials tour the Antioch Brackish Desalination Project on Aug. 11, 2022. (Photo from the governor's office.)

California Gov. Newsom unveils plan to increase water supply via storage, desalination, recycling

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

In this undated image provided by the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, after tagging, moths are released in Konstanz, Germany, and followed in a light aircraft for up to 80 kilometers into the Alps. Scientists in Germany attached tiny trackers to giant moths looking for clues about insect migration. (Christian Ziegler/Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior via AP)

Scientists use tiny trackers, plane to follow moths on move

By Maddie Burakoff - Associated Press

A Russian serviceman stands guard in an area of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station in territory under Russian military control, southeastern Ukraine, on May 1, 2022. The Zaporizhzhia plant is in southern Ukraine, near the town of Enerhodar on the banks of the Dnieper River. It is one of the 10 biggest nuclear plants in the world. Russia and Ukraine have accused each other of shelling Europe's largest nuclear power plant, stoking international fears of a catastrophe on the continent. This photo was taken during a trip organized by the Russian Ministry of Defense. (AP Photo, File)

U.N. demands end to military activity at Ukraine nuke plant

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

This photo provided by the fire brigade of the Gironde region SDIS 33, (Departmental fire and rescue service 33) shows firefighters tackling a blaze near Saint-Magne, south of Bordeaux, southwestern France, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022. (SDIS 33 via AP)

Firefighters combat major wildfire in southwestern France

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In this April 7, 2017 photo Dany a Harris's hawk keeps an eye out for any pesky birds during a day of work at the Museum of Modern Art in Los Angeles. The Bay Area Rapid Transit in San Francisco has also adopted the use of hawks to fend off its own bird problem: pigeons. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel) **FILE**

San Francisco transit station uses hawk to scare pigeons away

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

In this Monday, March 9, 2020, file photo released by the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), a Russian Tu-142 maritime reconnaissance aircraft, top right, is intercepted near the Alaska coastline. A similar incursion by two Russian maritime patrol aircraft tested the U.S. and Canadian air defense zone in early July 2022, in a show of force in the midst of Moscow's military operation in Ukraine and nuclear saber-rattling, the commander of the Northern Command said on July 22. The U.S.-Canadian air defense command is playing down two recent Russian military encounters near Alaska as non-threatening — despite one intrusion that included nuclear-capable bombers. The North American Aerospace Defense command delayed releasing details on the two separate incidents for two days, even though multiple U.S. fighter jets and support aircraft were used to intercept and escort the Tu-95 bombers and Su-35 jets off the Alaskan coast on May 11. (North American Aerospace Defense Command via AP, File)

NORAD tracks Russian aircraft flying into Alaska-area air defense zone

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Workman with Power Shift Solar put solar panels on a house Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022, in Salt Lake City. Congress is poised to pass a transformative climate change bill on Friday, Aug. 12. The crux of the long-delayed bill is to use incentives to accelerate the expansion of clean energy such as wind and solar power, speeding the transition away from the oil, coal and gas that largely cause climate change. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Big climate bill; Spending green bucks to boost green energy

By Seth Borenstein and Matthew Daly and Michael Phillis - Associated Press

A firefighter extinguishes flames as the Oak Fire crosses Darrah Rd. in Mariposa County, Calif., on Friday, July 22, 2022. Crews were able to to stop it from reaching an adjacent home. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Washington vs. wildfires

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

South Carolina Energy Strategy Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

South Carolina leading the way in an ‘all of the above’ energy strategy

By Rep. Jeff Duncan

A cow grazes in a pasture as wind turbines rise in the distance, April 27, 2020, near Reading, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Biden’s newest climate boondoggle is bad for farmers, bad for the food supply

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

In this handout photo taken from video released by Roscosmos on Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022, a Russian Soyuz rocket lifts off to carry Iranian Khayyam satellite into orbit at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome near Baikonur, Kazakhstan. A Russian rocket has successfully launched an Iranian satellite into orbit. The Soyuz rocket lifted off as scheduled at 8:52 a.m. Moscow time (0552 GMT) Tuesday from the Russia-leased Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan. (Roscosmos via AP)

Russia successfully launches Iranian satellite

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The Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, south of Los Osos, Calif., is viewed Sept. 20, 2005. California's last operating nuclear power plant could get a second lease on life. Owner Pacific Gas &amp; Electric decided six years ago to close the twin-domed power plant by 2025. But Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, who was involved in the agreement to close the reactors, has prompted PG&amp;E to consider seeking a longer lifespan for the plant. (AP Photo/Michael A. Mariant, File)

Not so fast: California’s last nuke plant might run longer

By Michael R. Blood - Associated Press

Al Medvitz, who farms alfalfa and other crops, looks out over Sacramento River from a hill on his land near Rio Vista, Calif., on Monday, July 25, 2022. In dry winters like the one California just had, less fresh water flows down from the mountains into the Sacramento River, the state's largest. Medvitz wants approval from the state to build a small reservoir on the property to store fresh water for use in dry times. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

In dry California, salty water creeps into key waterways

By Kathleen Ronayne - Associated Press

The cargo ship Polarnet arrives to Derince port in the Gulf of Izmit, Turkey, Monday Aug. 8, 2022. The first of the ships to leave Ukraine under a deal to unblock grain supplies amid the threat of a global food crisis arrived at its destination in Turkey on Monday. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Russia, Ukraine trade accusations over nuclear plant attacks

By Susie Blann - Associated Press

This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right, obtained from a sample of human skin associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. Africa’s public health agency says it doesn’t know how many of the continent's reported monkeypox cases this year are in men who have sex with men, and it warned Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022 against “any stigmatization” that might delay case reporting and affect the outbreak response. (Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner/CDC via AP, File)

Monkeypox genetic material tracked through wastewater surveillance helps show extent of spread

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden participates in a briefing at Marie Roberts Elementary School about the ongoing response efforts to devastating flooding, Monday, Aug. 8, 2022, in Lost Creek, Ky. From left are Rep. Harold Rogers, R-Ky., Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, Biden, FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell and Kentucky Lt. Gov. Jacqueline Coleman. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

‘We’re staying’: Biden pledges federal help for Kentucky flood victims

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

A man walks past a house abandoned after it was inundated by water due to the rising sea level in Sidogemah, Central Java, Indonesia, Nov. 8, 2021. Climate hazards such as flooding, heat waves and drought have worsened more than half of the hundreds of known infectious diseases in people, such as malaria, hantavirus, cholera and even anthrax, according to a new study released Monday, Aug. 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara, File)

Study connects climate hazards to 58% of infectious diseases

By Seth Borenstein - Associated Press