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In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, rescuers search through a quake-affected area in Yamansu Township, Wushi County of Aksu prefecture, China's Xinjiang, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024. An earthquake struck a sparsely populated part of China’s western Xinjiang region early Tuesday, injuring people and damaging or collapsing scores of homes in freezing cold weather, authorities said. (Wang Xudong/Xinhua via AP)

7.1 magnitude quake rattles western China, killing at least 3 people and collapsing 47 homes

By Ken Moritsugu - Associated Press

An electric 2023 Cooper SE hardtop is charged outside a Mini dealership Thursday, April 20, 2023, in Highlands Ranch, Colo. Leasing is starting to look like the cheapest way to get an electric vehicle, because the U.S. government is giving it a big advantage. Dealers can apply up to the full $7,500 U.S. tax credit to leases of all electric vehicles regardless of where they're made. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

16 Republican governors tell Biden to drop ‘unrealistic’ EV mandate

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Benito the giraffe walks out from his enclosure at the city-run Central Park zoo prior to his transfer to a new habitat, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Sunday, Jan. 21, 2024. After a campaign by environmentalists, Benito left Mexico's northern border and its extreme weather conditions Sunday night and headed for a conservation park in central Mexico, where the climate is more akin to his natural habitat and already a home to other giraffes. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)

Benito the giraffe is on a 50-hour trip to central Mexico, where the weather feels more like home

By Alicia Fernández - Associated Press

People enter in the sea at Boscombe beach in Dorset, England, Sunday, Jan. 21, 2024, ahead of an expected Storm Isha. (Andrew Matthews/PA via AP)

Storm Isha’s rain, wind expected to batter parts of U.K., Ireland

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In this photo provided by the National Park Service, Mud Canyon Road is closed due to flash flooding in Death Valley, Calif., Friday, Aug. 5, 2022. Authorities say the main roadway into Death Valley National Park will remain closed into the following week as crews clean up after record-breaking rains damaged the roadway and choked it with mud, rocks and debris. (National Park Service/Death Valley National Park via AP, File)

Semitruck hauling water bottles incinerates in California’s Death Valley

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

A worker walks through a destroyed property, Friday, Dec. 8, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii. The day after the deadliest U.S. wildfire in a century destroyed a seaside community on Maui, the barrage of 911 calls didn't stop: Reports of missing people, stranded family members and confused tourists trapped without food or water lit up the emergency lines every few minutes, interspersed with reports of new fires starting and older ones flaring back up. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)

911 calls from Maui capture pleas for the stranded, the missing and those caught in the fire’s chaos

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This April 12, 2023, file image, shows burned trees in the mountains near Las Vegas, New Mexico, a year after prescribed burn operations by the U.S. Forest Service sparked the Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak Fire. The official overseeing about $4 billion in U.S. relief for people affected by a fire in New Mexico set by the Forest Service is stepping aside to help with consolidating recovery operations in the state. The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced Angela Gladwell’s job change on Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024. A new chief operating officer will be chosen to lead long term recovery efforts. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File)

FEMA official who was criticized over aid delays after huge New Mexico fire is changing jobs

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Staff of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) watch a live streaming of the pinpoint moon landing operation by the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) spacecraft observe a live streaming at JAXA's Sagamihara Campus Saturday, Jan. 20, 2024, in Sagamihara near Tokyo. Japan's space agency said early Saturday that its spacecraft is on the moon, but is still "checking its status." More details will be given at a news conference, officials said. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Japan joins elite club, becomes the fifth country to land a spacecraft on the moon

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

This time exposure photo shows a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with a payload including two lunar rovers from Japan and the United Arab Emirates, launching from Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Dec. 11, 2022. But later in April 2023, the spacecraft from a Japanese company apparently crashed while attempting to land on the moon. Japan now hopes to make the world's first "pinpoint landing" on the moon early Saturday, Jan. 20, 2024, joining a modern push for lunar contact with roots in the Cold War-era space race between the United States and the Soviet Union. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)

Japan space agency says its lunar spacecraft is on the moon, but is still ‘checking its status’

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

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Letter to the editor: Where’s outrage over airline emissions?

A cargo ship waits near the Centennial Bridge for transit through the Panama Canal locks, in Panama City, Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024. A severe drought that began last year has forced authorities to slash ship crossings by 36% in the Panama Canal, one of the world’s most important trade routes. (AP Photo/Agustin Herrera)

The drop in Panama Canal traffic due to a severe drought could cost up to $700 million

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A gas explosion destroyed one building and damaged another along a major commercial corridor in Southeast D.C., on Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024, fire officials said. (Image: Screenshot from video on DC Fire and EMS' X post — https://twitter.com/dcfireems/status/1748003588272533598)

Gas explosion levels building in Southeast D.C.

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

"Environmental Strategic Communication: Advocacy, Persuasion and Public Relations" (book cover)

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Environmental Strategic Communication”

By Anthony J. Sadar

China's Ambassador to Australia Xiao Qian speaks to media at China's embassy in Canberra, Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024. Xiao sought to reassure that China's increased involvement in the Pacific, particularly in policing efforts, should not be a cause of alarm for Australia. (Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP)

Top Chinese diplomat says support of Pacific nations with policing should not alarm Australia

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Youth plaintiffs in the climate change lawsuit, Held vs. Montana, arrive at the Lewis and Clark County Courthouse, on 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. Montana's Supreme Court declined on Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024, to stay the ruling pending the state's appeal. (Thom Bridge/Independent Record via AP, File)

Montana Supreme Court upholds ruling that emissions must considered in issuing fossil-fuel permits

By Amy Beth Hanson - Associated Press

A Louisiana black bear, sub-species of the black bear that was protected under the Endangered Species Act, is seen in a water oak tree, May 17, 2015, in Marksville, La. A move is underway that wildlife advocates hope will persuade the state to end plans to overturn a nearly 40-year-old hunting ban on Louisiana black bears. The petition had just over 7,500 signatures as of Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Louisiana looks to revive black bear hunting for 1st time in decades, but there’s pushback

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The Pentagon in Washington, March 27, 2008. The Defense Department will install solar panels on the Pentagon as part of a Biden administration plan to promote energy conservation and clean energy. The Pentagon is one of 31 government sites that are receiving grants for the Energy Department program, which the administration says is intended to “reestablish the federal government as a sustainability leader” and promote President Joe Biden’s commitment to clean energy. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Pentagon’s roof to get solar panels as White House pushes for clean energy in federal buildings

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Ice covers flowers on Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024, in Lake Oswego, Ore. An ice storm threatened to topple towering trees onto power lines and turned mountain highways treacherous Wednesday in the Pacific Northwest, where residents were urged to avoid travel. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus)

Pacific Northwest residents are told to stay off the roads as ice coats the region

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FILE - Sen Kevin Cramer, R-ND, speaks during a hearing, May 20, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington. A North Dakota sheriff's deputy was killed when a stolen SUV driven by the son of Sen. Cramer crashed during a police pursuit and struck a sheriff's vehicle, pushing it into the deputy, according to the North Dakota Highway Patrol and a statement from Cramer.(Kevin Dietsch/Pool via AP, File)

Sen. Kevin Cramer’s energy tax would hit the poor, the old, those on fixed incomes

By Michael McKenna

John Kerry, U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, speaks during a news conference at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Dec. 6, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Kerry is stepping down from the Biden administration in the coming weeks, according to two people familiar with his plans. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)

White House confirms Kerry’s departure as Biden’s climate envoy

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times