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Shoppers pass by cooking oil products at a supermarket in Beijing, Wednesday, July 10, 2024. China's authorities said they were investigating food safety concerns in cooking oils after an investigative report from local media revealed that tankers carrying soybean oil from a major state-owned company were also used to carry a form of coal. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China investigating after media report finds same trucks transport edible oil and a form of coal

By Huizhong Wu - Associated Press

FILE - This aerial photo shows cooling ponds alongside Dominion Energy's North Anna Power Station along the shores of Lake Anna in Mineral, Va., Aug. 15, 2018. Virginia's largest utility said Wednesday, July 10, 2024, that it will explore the possibility of using small nuclear reactors to help meet growing electricity demands while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

Seeking carbon-free power, utility eyes small nuclear reactors

By Ben Finley - Associated Press

FILE - Youth plaintiffs in the climate change lawsuit, Held vs. Montana, arrive at the Lewis and Clark County Courthouse, June 20, 2023, in Helena, Mont., for the final day of the trial. A Montana judge in August 2023 sided with young environmental activists who said state agencies were violating their constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment by permitting fossil fuel development without considering its effect on the climate. The state's effort to overturn the ruling is now before the Montana Supreme Court. (Thom Bridge/Independent Record via AP, File)/Independent Record via AP)

Montana Republicans urge state high court to reverse landmark youth climate ruling

By Matthew Brown and Amy Beth Hanson - Associated Press

Chinese President Xi Jinping, second from left, and his delegation attend a meeting with Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, fourth from right, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Wednesday, July 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian, Pool)

China and Bangladesh reaffirm their ties as territorial and economic issues rise in region

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Climate alarmists and heat claims illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Climate alarmists target key battleground state with false heat claims

By James Taylor

An upended tree rests on Bethel Church after Hurricane Beryl moved through the area, Monday, July 8, 2024, in Van Vleck, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Some power restored in Houston after Hurricane Beryl while storm spawns tornadoes as it moves east

By Mark Vancleave and Juan A. Lozano - Associated Press

European Union (EU) climate change funding illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times

EU should prioritize defense, not climate change funding

By Wilson Beaver

This Friday, July 5, 2024 image provided by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection shows members of the New Jersey Forest Fire Service battling a forest fire in Tabernacle, N.J. The fire had burned 4,000 acres and was 75% contained as of Monday July 8. (New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection via AP)

Sparked by fireworks, New Jersey forest fire is 90% contained, authorities say

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A boat sails on the Chesapeake Bay under the Bay Bridge near Stevensville, Md., on Sunday, Aug. 20, 2023. The overall health of the Chesapeake Bay has received its highest grade since 2002 in an annual report released on Tuesday, July, 9, 2024: a C-plus. (AP Photo/Brian Witte)

Chesapeake Bay gets C+ on annual report, but still best grade since 2002

By Brian Witte and Marc Levy - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS), an injured victim of a landslide is attended to in Suwawa on Sulawesi Island, Indonesia, early Monday, July 8, 2024. The landslide triggered by torrential rains crashed onto an unauthorized gold mining operation on Indonesia's Sulawesi island, killing a number of miners, officials said Monday. (BASARNAS via AP)

Rescuers search for dozens buried by an Indonesian landslide that killed at least 23 people

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Richard Alcazar stacks sandbags in front of the door at Atmosphere The Salon & Beyond in Galveston, Texas, Sunday, July 7, 2024, as Tropical Storm Beryl heads toward the Texas coast. Alcazar, a barber at the salon, prepared the doors for any possible flooding from the storm. ( Jennifer Reynolds/The Galveston County Daily News via AP)

Beryl makes landfall in Texas as a Category 1 hurricane, knocking out power to nearly 1 million

By Mark Vancleave and Valerie Gonzalez - Associated Press

Children play in a water park on a hot day, Friday, June 21, 2024, in the Bronx Borough of New York. Tens of millions of Americans are facing major heat waves, with temperatures consistently exceeding 90 degrees (32 degrees Celsius). (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

Scorched by history: Discriminatory past shapes heat waves in minority and low-income neighborhoods

By Ryan Doan-Nguyen - Associated Press

Waves break over Sea Point's promenade in Cape Town, South Africa, Monday, July 8, 2024. City authorities say nearly 1,000 homes in informal settlements around the city have been destroyed by gale-force winds, displacing around 4,000 people with multiple cold fronts expected until at least Friday. (AP Photo/Nardus Engelbrecht)

Nearly 1,000 homes in Cape Town destroyed by storms as city braces for a week of bad weather

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In this photo released by the Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS), rescuers prepare to head out to the site of a landslide that killed a number of people, in Suwawa on Sulawesi Island, Indonesia, Monday, July 8, 2024. The landslide triggered by torrential rains crashed onto an unauthorized gold mining operation on Indonesia's Sulawesi island, killing a number of miners, officials said Monday. (BASARNAS via AP)

Indonesian landslide triggered by heavy rain leaves 12 dead and dozens missing at illegal gold mine

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Jackie Jecmenek, right, talks with city worker Bobby Head as she stands in front of her neighbor's home after Beryl passed, Monday, July 8, 2024, in Bay City, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Beryl weakens to tropical depression after slamming into Texas as Category 1 hurricane

By Mark Vancleave and Juan A. Lozano - Associated Press

In this image made from video provided by NASA, Kelly Haston, the crew members of the first CHAPEA mission, speaks in front of other members, from left to right, Ross Brockwell, Nathan Jones, and Anca Selariu, Saturday, July 6, 2024, at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. The crew of a NASA mission to Mars emerged from their craft after a yearlong voyage that never left Earth. The four volunteers crew members spent more than 12 months inside NASA's first simulated Mars environment at Johnson Space Center in Houston, coming out of the artificial alien environment Saturday. (NASA via AP)

Crew of NASA’s earthbound simulated Mars habitat emerge after a year

By Brian P. D. Hannon - Associated Press

62-year old farmer Martha Waema, in her three-acre farm that was submerged by weeks of rainfall in Machakos, Kenya, Wednesday, May 8, 2024. According to Kenya's interior ministry, the heavy rains affected 400,000 people across the country and killed 289. Crops on approximately 168,092 acres of land have been destroyed, posing a threat to food security. This represents 0.24 percent of Kenya's based on World Bank Data that shows 48% of Kenya's land is agricultural. (AP Photo/Andrew Kasuku)

Kenya’s dramatic flooding sweeps away a central part of the economy: Its farms

By Desmond Tiro - Associated Press

Clyde George, left, and his son Chris George board up their home ahead of the arrival of Tropical Storm Beryl on Sunday, July 7, 2024, in Port O'Connor, Texas. (Jon Shapley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

Beryl begins lashing Texas with rain and intensifying winds

By Mark Vancleave and Juan Lozano - Associated Press

In this June 8, 2021, file photo, a dead chinook salmon is documented at a salmon trap on the lower Klamath River in Weitchpec, Calif. Fishermen who make their living off adult salmon, once they enter the Pacific Ocean, are sounding the alarm as blistering heat waves and extended drought in the U.S. West raise water temperatures and imperil fish from Idaho to California. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard, File)

Fish fried: California heat wave kills 1,000 of them in Fremont lake

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

This photo provided by Doug Zink, smoke fills the sky after a train derailment on Friday, July 5, 2024 near Carrington, N.D. Rail cars containing hazardous material derailed and burst into flames early Friday in a remote area of North Dakota, but emergency officials say no one was hurt and the threat to those living nearby appears to be minimal. (Doug Zink via AP)

Fiery railcars with hazardous material has mostly been contained after derailment in North Dakota

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