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A man takes a photograph of a tractor, with the Eiffel Tower in background, Friday, Feb. 23, 2024 in Paris. Angry farmers were back to Paris on their tractors in a new protest demanding more government support and simpler regulations, on the eve of a major agricultural fair in the French capital. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)

Angry French farmers with tractors are back on the streets of Paris for another protest

By Sylvie Corbet - Associated Press

Police officers with gas masks stand guard near the Security Police's headquarters in Solna, north of Stockholm, Sweden, Friday Feb. 23, 2024. A suspected gas leak at the headquarters of Sweden’s security agency on Friday forced the authorities to evacuate some 500 people from the facility, Swedish broadcaster TV4 said. (Fredrik Persson/TT News Agency via AP)

Police in Sweden evacuate about 500 people from security agency over suspected gas leak

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Volkswagen to recall 261,000 cars to fix pump problem that can let fuel leak and increase fire risk

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Letter to the editor: Climate efforts hurt the poor

FILE - Jackson Family vineyards are submerged in the Russian River near Trenton Road and River Road after flooding from the latest round of storms in Sonoma County, Calif., on Feb. 19, 2024. California's current rainy season got off to a slow start but has rebounded with recent storms that have covered mountains in snow and unleashed downpours, flooding and mudslides. The water content of the vital Sierra Nevada snowpack has topped 80% of normal to date while downtown Los Angeles has already received more than an entire year's average annual rainfall. (Chad Surmick/The Press Democrat via AP)

California’s rainy season is here. What does it mean for water supply?

By John Antczak - Associated Press

A whale, confirmed dead by field investigation, floats in Osaka Bay in Sakai city, western Japan, on Feb. 19, 2024. The whale as long as a train car that died after straying into a port in Osaka last month is set to be buried until it naturally becomes a skeletal specimen for a local museum. (Kyodo News via AP)

A stray whale died in Osaka Bay, raising questions about the cause and the cost of disposal

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

A caution sign is shown on a road on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation on June 2, 2022. A deal to address two nuclear waste storage tanks that are leaking radioactive materials into the soil on the reservation in Washington state has been reached between Washington state and the U.S. Department of Energy. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Barrels dumped off Los Angeles coast could contain radioactive waste

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Workers of Solar Square place a panel on the rooftop of a residence in Gurugram on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024. India is renewing its push to add rooftop solar to meet the needs of a fast-growing nation that's hungry for energy. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

India wants to hook its population onto clean energy by boosting rooftop solar

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In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, ships sail near broken Lixinsha Bridge in Nansha District of Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province, Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024. Few people are dead and missing after a massive container ship crashed into the bridge south of the city of Guangzhou in southern China early Thursday, causing a section of the bridge to come crashing down along with vehicles. (Lu Hanxin/Xinhua via AP)

Container ship hits bridge in south China, killing 5 and knocking section of roadway into the water

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FILE - Bai Yun, the mother of newly named panda cub, Mei Sheng, gets a mouthful of bamboo during the cub's first day on display at the San Diego Zoo on Dec. 17, 2003. China is working on sending a new pair of giant pandas to the San Diego Zoo, renewing its longstanding gesture of friendship toward the United States after nearly all the iconic bears in the U.S. were returned to the Asian country in recent years amid rocky relations between the two nations. San Diego sent back its last pandas to China in 2019. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi,File)

China plans to send San Diego Zoo more pandas this year, reintroducing panda diplomacy

By Julie Watson - Associated Press

Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, speaks at a hearing at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, May 4, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Environmental justice groups spend Biden aid on payroll, trips, rap song

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Emissions rise from the smokestacks at the Jeffrey Energy Center coal power plant as the sun sets, near Emmett, Kan., Sept. 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Supreme Court appears skeptical of EPA’s ‘good neighbor’ rule on power plant pollution

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

Illustration on banning plastic water bottles by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

We may regret the move away from plastic bottles

By Rick Berman

People cross the street with umbrellas in heavy rain in Los Angeles, Monday, Feb. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Saturated California gets more rain and snow, but so far escapes severe damage it saw only weeks ago

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**FILE** NASA has discovered a massive, rocky planet, dubbed Kepler-10c, that weighs 17 times as much as Earth. (AP Photo/NASA Ames, SETI Institute, JPL-Caltech, T. Pyle)

5,000-pound satellite expected to fall somewhere on Earth this week

By Staff - The Washington Times

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack holds up a Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Electronic Benefits Transfer (SNAP EBT) card during a news conference at the White House, Wednesday, May 5, 2021, in Washington. Student and legal advocacy groups are petitioning the U.S. Department of Agriculture to lift the interview requirement for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) applicants to receive food aid. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Biden administration spending another $500 million to combat wildfires

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

Construction crews are boring beneath U.S. 221 in Roanoke County, Va., to make a tunnel through which the Mountain Valley Pipeline will pass under the highway, seen on Friday, June 22, 2018. The U.S. Forest Service has reissued approval for the controversial and long-delayed natural gas pipeline to run through Jefferson National Forest in Virginia and West Virginia. The decision Monday, May 15, 2023, will allow for the construction of the $6.6 billion Mountain Valley Pipeline across a 3.5-mile corridor of the national forest. (Heather Rousseau/The Roanoke Times via AP, File)

Securing America’s fossil fuel future by Investing in infrastructure

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

FILE -An open-air double decker sightseeing bus stops on the slopes of Table Mountain, overlooking the city of Cape Town, South Africa, Friday March, 20, 2020. Authorities in Cape Town launched an investigation after a foul stench swept over the South African city. City officials inspected sewage facilities for leaks on Monday, Feb. 19, 2024, and an environmental health team was activated before the source of the smell was discovered: A ship docked in the harbor carrying 19,000 live cattle from Brazil to Iraq. (AP Photo, File)

A ship carrying 19,000 cattle caused a big stink in the South African city of Cape Town

By Gerald Imray - Associated Press

In this handout photograph provided by Taiwan Coast Guard Administration, Taiwanese coast guards inspect a vessel that capsized during a chase off the coast of Kinmen archipelago in Taiwan, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024. The unnamed vessel had been sailing about one nautical mile off the coast of an islet of Kinmen island and was trespassing, said Taiwan’s Coast Guard Administration. Four fishermen fell into the water and two survived and are in “good shape,” while resuscitation efforts on the other two failed, the vice director of the Coast Guard in Kinmen, Chen Jien-wen, told a local TV channel. (Taiwan Coast Guard Administration via AP)

China’s coast guard to ramp up patrols near Taiwan’s Kinmen archipelago after two fishermen die

By Huizhong Wu - Associated Press

Trash is unloaded at the Otay Landfill in Chula Vista, Calif., on Friday, Jan. 26, 2024. Two years after California launched an effort to keep organic waste out of landfills, the state is so far behind on getting food recycling programs up and running that it's widely accepted next year's ambitious waste-reduction targets won't be met. Over time, food scraps and other organic materials like yard waste emit methane, a gas more potent and damaging in the short-term than carbon emissions from fossil fuels. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

California is forging ahead with food waste recycling. But is it too much, too fast?

By Amy Taxin - Associated Press