Environment

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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)

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Illustration on the positive impact of Russian involvement in negotiations with North Korea by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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Screen shot of Birkenstock search at Amazon.com

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China Coal Plant Technology Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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President Donald Trump speaks and lays out a national security strategy that envisions nations in perpetual competition, reverses Obama-era warnings on climate change, and de-emphasizes multinational agreements, in Washington, Monday, Dec. 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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U.S President Donald Trump listens during the Three Seas Initiative transatlantic roundtable in the Great Assembly Hall of the Royal Castle, in Warsaw, Thursday July 6, 2017. the Three Seas Initiative is an alliance among a dozen eastern and central European nations that are bordered by the Adriatic, Baltic and Black seas. The group aims to reduce their dependence on oil and gas supplied by Russia. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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8. Liu Wen - $6.5 million

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File-In this May 18,2009 file photo Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia Inc. is seen before receiving a honorary degree during commencement at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Chouinard is traveling to Salt Lake City for a prestigious environmental award. The Glen Canyon Institute will bestow the David R. Brower Conservation Award on the 71-year-old environmental activist after a dinner Friday at the Natural History Museum of Utah. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke,File)