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People get drinking water from a water collecting point at a slum area, in Karachi, Pakistan, Tuesday, March 21, 2023. World Water Day will be observed on March 22, to aim to highlight the importance of freshwater and advocate for sustainable management of this vital resource. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

U.N.: 26% of world lacks clean drinking water, 46% sanitation

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press
President Joe Biden waves as he boards Air Force One at North Island Naval Air Station, Tuesday, March 14, 2023, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Frequent travels have yet to take Biden to Ohio town beleaguered by toxic spill

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times
Women push wheelbarrows atop a coal mine dump at the coal-powered Duvha power station, near Emalahleni east of Johannesburg, Nov. 17, 2022. Humanity still has a chance, close to the last one, to prevent the worst of climate change’s future harms, a top United Nations panel of scientists said Monday, March 20, 2023. But doing so requires quickly slashing carbon pollution and fossil fuel use. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell, File)

U.N. doomsday report warns of 'climate time-bomb' unless globe ditches fossil fuels

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times
People arrive at a displacement camp on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia, Sept. 21, 2022, amid a drought. A new report says an estimated 43,000 people died amid the longest drought on record in Somalia last year and half of them likely were children. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

43,000 estimated dead in Somalia drought last year: Report

By Cara Anna - Associated Press
Dead fishes drift in the Oder River near Brieskow-Finkenheerd, eastern Germany, on Aug. 11, 2022. Greenpeace environmental group said Thursday, March 2, 2023 that waste water discharge from Poland’s coal mines were most probably responsible for the 2022 massive fish die-off in the Oder River. Greenpeace Poland also warned that the situation may reoccur this year and also hit Poland's largest river, the Vistula, if the government and the coalmining industry don't take immediate steps to counter the problem. The fish die-out was blamed on deadly algae, Prymnesium parvum, that thrive in highly salty water and in hot temperatures. (Frank Hammerschmidt/dpa via AP)

Millions of dead fish wash up amid heat wave in Australia

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A sign marks Navajo Drive, as Sentinel Mesa, homes and other structures in Oljato-Monument Valley, Utah, on the Navajo Reservation, stand in the distance, on April 30, 2020. The U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide a critical water rights case in the water-scarce Southwest. The high court will hold oral arguments Monday, March 20, 2023, in a case with critical implications for how water from the drought-stricken Colorado River is shared and the extent of the U.S. government’s obligations to Native American tribes. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Feds want justices to end Navajo fight for Colo. River water

By Michael Phillis - Associated Press
A black plume rises over East Palestine, Ohio, as a result of a controlled detonation of a portion of the derailed Norfolk Southern trains, Feb. 6, 2023. The Ohio attorney general said Tuesday, March 14, that the state filed a lawsuit against railroad Norfolk Southern to make sure it pays for the cleanup and environmental damage caused by a fiery train derailment on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border last month. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

EPA tells states not to block waste from Ohio derailment

By John Seewer - Associated Press
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W. Va., left, and Sen. John Thune. R-S.D., right, speak during the news conference to introduce the Restricting the Emergence of Security Threats that Risk Information Communications Technology Act, or RESTRICT Act, Tuesday, March 7, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Joe Manchin stakes out a more conservative space as 2024 looms

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times
Men transport their salvaged belongings in Chiradzulu, southern Malawi, Friday March 17, 2023. Authorities are still getting to grips with the scale of Cyclone Freddy's destruction in Malawi and Mozambique since late Saturday, with over 300 people confirmed dead and several hundreds still displaced or missing. (AP Photo/Thoko Chikondi)

Death toll rises, locals pick up pieces after Cyclone Freddy

By Wanjohi Kabukuru and Vitus-Gregory Gondwe - Associated Press
Libya's Khalifa Hifter, the commander of the self-styled Libyan National Army, center, is seen at the International Defense Exhibition and Conference in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Monday, Feb. 20, 2023. Just outside of Abu Dhabi's biennial arms fair in a large tent, Russia offered weapons for sale Monday ranging from Kalashnikov assault rifles to missile systems despite facing sanctions from the West over its war on Ukraine. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

U.N. nuclear watchdog: 2.5 tons of uranium missing in Libya

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer said Wednesday that the Senate made "some progress" in recent days toward completing the appropriations process. The Senate did not hold an anticipated vote on a stopgap spending resolution. (Associated Press)

Schumer dodges questions on Biden's approval of major Alaskan oil project as Democrats fume

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times
Patrick Cerruti assesses damage of his daughter's flooded laundry mat, Pajaro Coin Laundry, on Salinas Road in Pajaro, Calif. on Tuesday, March 14, 2023. A levee failure prompted overnight evacuations on Friday, March 10, and into the next day.(Brontë Wittpenn/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)

Flooding, landslides as atmospheric river departs California

By John Antczak - Associated Press
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., pauses as he talks to reporters about President Joe Biden's budget proposal at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, March 9, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Schumer whacks House GOP energy package as 'unserious'

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times
Rancher Randy Nunns overlooks the Devil's River near Del Rio, Texas, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023. Nunns and fellow landowners along the Devil's River argue that proposed wind turbines would kill birds, bats and disrupt monarch butterflies migrating to Mexico and impact ecotourism, a main source of income for many. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Texas drove out Chinese firm, not the wind farm it planned

By Acacia Coronado - Associated Press
A woman at a displacement center in Blantyre, Malawi Tuesday March 14, 2023. The unrelenting Cyclone Freddy that is currently battering southern Africa has killed more than 50 people in Malawi and Mozambique since it struck the continent for a second time on Saturday night. (AP Photo/Thoko Chikondi)

Cyclone Freddy to ease after battering Malawi, Mozambique

By Vitus-Gregory Gondwe and Wanjohi Kabukuru - Associated Press
In this file photo, House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., joined at left by Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., speaks during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, June 29, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House GOP debuts major energy package, hopes to win over Democrats

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times
In this photo taken Monday, July 22, 2019, chinook salmon is seen after being unloaded at Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco. California fishermen are reporting one of the best salmon fishing seasons in more than a decade, thanks to heavy rain and snow that ended the state's historic drought. It's a sharp reversal for chinook salmon, also known as king salmon, an iconic fish that helps sustain many Pacific Coast fishing communities. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Ocean salmon fishing off California coast halted until 2024

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times
The hints of sunlight begin to disappear behind a pair of pumpjacks Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021 in the oilfields of Penwell, Texas. A movement to divest from fossil fuels is gaining momentum among foundations as activists push the $1 trillion sector to shift its money away from coal, oil and natural gas. The call from activists to the charitable world and other sectors has been simple: ditch fossil fuels and direct your investments into climate-friendly companies and funds. (Eli Hartman/Odessa American via AP, File)

House Republicans make boosting energy top priority with first bill out of the chute

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times
In this photo provided by the Center for Biological Diversity are the meadows at Baltazor Hot Spring in Humboldt County, Nev., Jan. 14, 2022. Conservationists who are already suing to block a geothermal power plant where an endangered toad lives in western Nevada are now seeking U.S. protection for a rare butterfly at another geothermal project the developer plans near the Oregon line. The Center for Biological Diversity is now petitioning the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list the bleached sandhill skipper under the Endangered Species Act at the only place it's known to exist. (Patrick Donnelly/Center for Biological Diversity via AP)

House panel rips federal agency's 'ecogrief' training, warns of probe if 'colossal waste' continues

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
Michael Regan, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, announces the Biden administration is launching a broad strategy to regulate toxic industrial compounds associated with serious health conditions that are used in products ranging from cookware to carpets and firefighting foams during an event at N.C. State University, Oct. 18, 2021, in Raleigh, N.C. The EPA on Tuesday, March 14, 2023, proposed limiting the amount of harmful “forever chemicals” in drinking water to the lowest level that tests can detect. (Travis Long/The News & Observer via AP, File)

EPA to limit toxic 'forever chemicals' in drinking water

By Michael Phillis and Matthew Daly - Associated Press
Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event Monday, March 13, 2023, in Davenport, Iowa. (AP Photo/Ron Johnson)

Trump unleashes on DeSantis in Iowa stop

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
A tree lays across a street in Quelimane, Mozambique Sunday, March 12, 2023. Record-breaking Cyclone Freddy made its second landfall in Mozambique Saturday night, pounding the southern African nation with heavy rains and disrupting transport and telecommunications services. (AP Photo)

Death toll climbs as Cyclone Freddy slams Malawi, Mozambique

By Vitus-Gregory Gondwe and Wanjohi Kabukuru - Associated Press

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