Environment

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The owner of the "Obama gas station" in Columbia, South Carolina, is facing charges of tax evasion. State investigators accuse him of dodging over $135,000 in taxes. (Image: WISTV-10 South Carolina screenshot)

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Gov. Chris Christie delivered his final state of the state address in Trenton, New Jersey on Tuesday before handing over control to Gov.-elect Phil Murphy. (Associated PRess)

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Former Presidents George H.W. Bush, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter are joining together in an online campaign, called the OneAmericaAppeal, to raise money for those affected by Harvey and the floods it caused along the Texas coast. (Associated Press/File)

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Michael Byrne, FEMA's acting regional administrator, said he is humbled by the scope of help Puerto Rico requires. (Courtesy FEMA/Kenneth Wilsey)

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Pizza Hut and Toyota have teamed up with the goal of using autonomous driving technologies by 2020 to deliver pizza. (Image: Toyota)

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Families in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, lost their homes when Hurricane Maria hit and have been living in a shelter set up at a school. (Associated Press/File)

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A woman passes an ice-covered fountain in New York's Bryant Park, Friday, Jan. 5, 2018. Frigid temperatures, some that could feel as cold as minus 30 degrees, moved across the East Coast on Friday as the region attempted to clean up from a massive winter storm. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

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Salvadorans under temporary protected status who have been in the U.S. since a 2001 earthquake would have to face a difficult choice of leaving their children behind or taking them back to worse conditions in their home countries, according to immigration advocacy organizations arguing to continue the status for 200,000 people. (Associated Press/File)

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FILE — In this May 13, 2010 file photo, pelicans float on the water with an offshore oil platform in the background in the Santa Barbara Channel off the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif. The Trump administration on Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018 moved to vastly expand offshore drilling from the Atlantic to the Arctic oceans with a plan that would open up federal waters off the California coast for the first time in more than three decades. The Channel is one of those areas. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)

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Illustration on U.S. energy development and its impact on Russia by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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Illustration on China’s background support of a belligerent North Korea by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

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Branch Davidian complex in flames.

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China's leaders, according to the document, concluded that pressure will not force North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons, estimated to be 20 warheads. (Associated Press)

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The landmark case would involve proving in court that climate change is real and that humanity is driving it, and that government, through both negligence and policies that deliberately favor fossil fuels over clean energy, has failed to do anything about it. (Associated Press)

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"After Anambra 2017, in 2019, there'll be no elections on Biafra land," said Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra. (By Mahmud Isa/Special to The Washington Times)

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Swamp Gas Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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Reminders of conflict mark the streets of Sirte, Libya, which was battered by warring militias before falling to the Islamic State in May 2015. Now living with a fragile peace, many are planning their futures in the coastal city. (Maryline Dumas/Special to The Washington Times)