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Valerie Richardson

Valerie Richardson

Valerie Richardson covers politics and the West from Denver. She can be reached at vrichardson@washingtontimes.com.

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The Marathon Petroleum Corp. refinery is shown in Detroit, Tuesday, April 21, 2020. The world is awash in oil, there's little demand for it and we're running out of places to put it. That in a nutshell explains this week's strange and unprecedented action in the market for crude oil futures contracts, where traders essentially offered to pay someone else to deal with the oil they were due to have delivered next month.(AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Fall of oil prices threatens green energy gains

Climate warriors led by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez chuckling over the collapse of oil prices are receiving a crash course in economics from analysts who point out that cheap gas is actually the enemy of green energy. Published April 21, 2020

In this Aug. 23, 2018, file photo, a coal-fired plant in Winfield, W.Va, is seen from an apartment complex in the town of Poca across the Kanawha River. The Trump administration is gutting an Obama-era rule that compelled coal plants to cut back emissions of mercury and other human health hazards, limiting future regulation of air pollutants by petroleum and coal plants. (AP Photo/John Raby, File)

EPA overhauls Obama-era mercury emissions cost-benefit analysis

The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday overhauled the Obama administration's "dishonest" method of determining the costs and benefits of its regulations on mercury emissions from power plants, saying it wildly exaggerated the health benefits. Published April 16, 2020

Deputy Managing Editor Ted Agres, pictured here in February 2002, has died. He was 70. (The Washington Times)

Ted Agres, Washington Times editor, dies at 70

Ted Agres, a veteran journalist and prolific writer who brought his manifold reporting and managerial strengths to the founding of The Washington Times, died Tuesday in Baltimore. He was 70. Published April 15, 2020

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), attends a press conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, May 18, 2018. The WHO Director-General answered questions ahead of the World Health Assembly and following the meeting of an International Health Regulations Emergency Committee on Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Valentin Flauraud/Keystone via AP)

WHO-China ties scrutinized after botched coronavirus response

The World Health Organization has never had more than one director-general from the same nation, so when Dr. Margaret Chan of Hong Kong left after two terms in 2017, China pushed to have her succeeded by an Ethiopian microbiologist named Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Published April 9, 2020