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The SEC should not be America’s climate regulator

By Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Okla.

President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with Prime Minister Petr Fiala of the Czech Republic in the Oval Office at the White House, Monday, April 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Biden administration announces new partnership with 50 countries to stifle future pandemics

By Amanda Seitz - Associated Press

FILE - Clouds hang over a home destroyed in a wildfire in Kula, Hawaii, Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023. The Maui Fire Department is expected to release a report Tuesday, April 16, 2024, detailing how the agency responded to a series of wildfires that burned on the island during a windstorm last August. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Maui Fire Department to release after-action report on deadly Hawaii wildfires

By Rebecca Boone and Jennifer Sinco Kelleher - Associated Press

Julie Su speaks during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions confirmation hearing for her to be the Labor Secretary, on Capitol Hill, April 20, 2023, in Washington. A group of Senate Republicans demanded answers from acting Labor Secretary Su about the repeated revisions to the government's jobs reports following a massive revision that saw nearly 1 million reported new jobs vanish. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Coal miners are getting new protections from silica dust linked to black lung disease

By Matthew Daly and Leah Willingham - Associated Press

FILE - Bleached coral is visible at the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, off the coast of Galveston, Texas, in the Gulf of Mexico, Sept. 16, 2023. The world is not doing enough to protect coral reefs — vital marine ecosystems that protect biodiversity, produce some of the oxygen we breathe, slow erosion and sustain underwater life — the United Nations’ special envoy for the ocean said Tuesday, April 16, 2024. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

U.N. envoy says of the threat to coral reefs: ‘Are we faced with a colossal ecosystem tragedy? Yes’

By Elena Becatoros - Associated Press

FILE - Wind turbines operate at an energy plant near Stetten, north of Kaiserslautern, Germany, as the sun rises on, March 19, 2024. According to a new report published Tuesday, April 16, 2024, last year, marked the best year for new wind projects. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

2023 was a record year for wind installations as world ramps up clean energy, report says

By Carlos Mureithi - Associated Press

A man takes a selfie on the bank of a stream, which is overflowing following heavy rains, on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan, Monday, April 15, 2024. Lightnings and heavy rains killed dozens of people, mostly farmers, across Pakistan in the past three days, officials said Monday, as authorities declared a state of emergency in the country's southwest following an overnight rainfall to avoid any further casualties and damages. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)

Lightning, rains kill 49 in Pakistan as authorities declare a state of emergency in the southwest

By Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

In this Nov. 20, 2016 file photo, provided by Morton County Sheriff's Department, law enforcement and protesters clash near the site of the Dakota Access pipeline on Sunday, Nov. 20, 2016, in Cannon Ball, N.D. A federal judge in North Dakota has dismissed the excessive-force lawsuit of a New York woman who was injured in an explosion during the protests of the Dakota Access oil pipeline. (Morton County Sheriff's Department via AP) **FILE**

House Republicans probe ecoterrorism threat against America’s energy infrastructure

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

FILE - Lightning strikes in the distance as a thunderstorm passes over downtown Kansas City, Mo., July 30, 2023. Tens of millions of Americans stretching from Lincoln, Neb., to Baltimore could face strong thunderstorms Monday night, April 15, 2024, through Wednesday, April 17, with tornadoes possible in some states. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Much of central U.S. faces severe thunderstorm threat and possible tornadoes

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A group of barges sit pinned against the Emsworth lock and dam in Pittsburgh, on Saturday, April 13, 2024. More than two dozen river barges broke loose from their moorings and floated down the Ohio River, damaging a marina and striking a bridge. (WTAE via AP)

Ohio River near Pittsburgh is closed as crews search for missing barge, one of 26 that broke loose

By Michael Rubinkam - Associated Press

Rescue and emergency team members work with passengers of a cable car transportation system outside Antalya, southern Turkey, Friday, April 12, 2024. At least one person was killed and several injured Friday when a cable car pod in southern Turkey hit a pole and burst open, sending the passengers plummeting to the mountainside below, officials and local media said. Scores of other people were left stranded late into the night after the entire cable car system came to a standstill. (Dia Images via AP)

More than 40 people still stranded the day after a deadly cable car accident in Turkey

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Festivalgoers are seen during the the first weekend of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club on Friday, April 12, 2024, in Indio, Calif. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP)

Small earthquake shakes Southern California desert during Coachella music festival

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High water from the flooded Ohio River covers the walkways around the idle fountain at Point State Park in Pittsburgh on Monday, Feb. 26, 2018. Flood waters from weekend rains closed riverside roads and parking in the city. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

Barges break loose on Ohio River in Pittsburgh, leading to bridge closure

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Nottingham Forest's Gibbs-White celebrates his side's first goal of the game during the Premier League soccer match between Nottingham Forest and Wolverhampton Wanderers at the City Ground, in Nottingham, England, Saturday April 13, 2024. (Nick Potts/PA via AP)

Gibbs-White scores against former club as Nottingham Forest settles for draw with Wolves

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A line of Holstein dairy cows feed through a fence at a dairy farm in Idaho on March 11, 2009. As of April 11, 2024, a strain of the highly pathogenic avian influenza, or HPAI, that has killed millions of wild birds in recent years has been found in at least 24 dairy cow herds in eight U.S. states: Texas, Kansas, New Mexico, Ohio, Idaho, Michigan and North Carolina and South Dakota. (AP Photo/Charlie Litchfield, File)

Bird flu is spreading to more farm animals. Are milk and eggs safe?

By Jonel Aleccia - Associated Press

A man reacts as a bucket of water is splashed on him during the Songkran water festival to celebrate the Thai New Year in Prachinburi Province, Thailand, Saturday April 13, 2024. It's the time of year when many Southeast Asian countries hold nationwide water festivals to beat the seasonal heat, as celebrants splash friends, family and strangers alike in often raucous celebration to mark the traditional Theravada Buddhist New Year. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn)

Water guns are in full blast to mark Thai New Year festivities despite worries about heat wave

By Aniruddha Ghosal and Jintamas Saksornchai - Associated Press

Former Ireland President Mary Robinson speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Oxford, England, on Wednesday, April 10, 2024. (AP Photo)

European court decision shows that a safe climate is a human right, former U.N. rights chief says

By Seth Borenstein - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, an emergency worker extinguishes a fire after a Russian attack on the Trypilska thermal power plant in Ukrainka, Kyiv region, Ukraine, Thursday, April 11, 2024. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)

Massive attack destroys one of Ukraine’s largest power plants

By Hanna Arhirova - Associated Press

FILE - Pump jacks work in a field near Lovington, N.M., April 24, 2015. Oil and gas companies will have to pay more to drill on public lands and satisfy stronger requirements to clean up old or abandoned wells under a final rule issued Friday, April 12, 2024, by the Biden administration. The Interior Department rule does not go so far as to prohibit new oil and gas leasing on public lands, as many environmental groups have urged and as President Joe Biden promised during the 2020 campaign. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Oil and gas companies must pay more to drill on public lands under new Biden administration rule

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

$A dead humpback whale rolls in the surf in Long Beach Township on New Jersey's Long Beach Island on Thursday, April 11, 2024. On Friday, a marine animal rescue group that examined the animal said it sustained numerous blunt force injuries including a fractured skull. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)$

Dead whale in New Jersey had a fractured skull among numerous injuries, experts find

By Wayne Parry - Associated Press