Environment

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Republican presidential candidate and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal speaks at the RedState Gathering in Atlanta on Aug. 7, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

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An illustration depicts The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency vision for new XS-1 spacecraft. (Image: DARPA screen grab)

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Illustration on forcing green energy choices through government coercion by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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Photo of Lucille Ball in public domain. Meme created by Scott Lamb and free for use with attribution.

Democratic Texas state Rep. Garnet Coleman's claim that he was mistreated by a sheriff's deputy during a recent traffic stop is being disputed following release of the deputy's dashcam footage. (KHOU)

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A "Cecil the Lion" Beanie Baby is due to hit store shelves next month with proceeds going toward wildlife conservation, Ty Warner has announced. (PR Newswire)

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President Barack Obama arrives before making a statement after touring Everglades National Park on Earth Day, Wednesday, April 22, 2015, in Florida. Obama used the visit to warn of the damage that climate change is already inflicting on the nation's environmental treasures. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

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Illustration on the interrelationship between animals and mankind by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

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President Barack Obama speaks about his Clean Power Plan, Monday, Aug. 3, 2015, in the East Room at the White House in Washington. The president is mandating even steeper greenhouse gas cuts from U.S. power plants than previously expected, while granting states more time and broader options to comply. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

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President Barack Obama speaks about his Clean Power Plan, Monday, Aug. 3, 2015, in the East Room at the White House in Washington. The president is mandating even steeper greenhouse gas cuts from U.S. power plants than previously expected, while granting states more time and broader options to comply. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

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FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2015 file photo, a plume of steam billows from the coal-fired Merrimack Station in Bow, N.H. President Barack Obama on Monday, Aug. 3, 2015, will unveil the final version of his unprecedented regulations clamping down on carbon dioxide emissions from existing U.S. power plants. The Obama administration first proposed the rule last year. Opponents plan to sue immediately to stop the rule's implementation. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)

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National Edition News cover for August 3, 2015 - Obama rule may be harmful to health: In this photo from Jan. 6, 2015, steam blows over the Green Plains ethanol plant in Shenandoah, Iowa. Roughly 100 trucks a day filled with corn flow into this ethanol plant in southwest Iowa even as crude oil prices continue to collapse. Oil prices may have dipped below $50 a barrel for the first time since April 2009, but ethanol plants across the nation continue to operate at a brisk pace in order to satisfy a domestic and export demand that hasn’t weakened. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

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National Edition News cover for August 3, 2015 - Obama rule may be harmful to health: FILE - In this March 16, 2011, file photo, exhaust rises from smokestacks in front of piles of coal in Thompsons, Texas. A federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to relax some limits it set on smokestack emissions that cross state lines and taint downwind areas with air pollution from power plants they can't control. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

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Key pieces of President Obama's environmental plan, including proposals to increase ozone standards, limit carbon emissions from power plants and continue mandating more ethanol in U.S. gasoline supplies, will bring with them serious side effects in the coming months and years, critics and some analysts say. (Associated Press)

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While President Obama touts his climate plan as a path toward a cleaner tomorrow, critics maintain the economic and employment consequences will be high. (Associated Press)

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In this image taken from a November 2012 video made available by Paula French, a well-known, protected lion known as Cecil strolls around in Hwange National Park, in Hwange, Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe's wildlife minister says extradition is being sought for Walter Palmer, the American dentist who killed Cecil. On Saturday, poachers killed Jericho, Cecil's brother. (Paula French via AP)

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Eisenhower stamp and coin (public domain). Meme created by Scott Lamb (freely share, but please credit back to "Jesus in the Public Square" here at the Times).

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This July 27, 2015, aerial photo shows the Rodrigo de Freitas Lake in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. An Associated Press analysis of water quality found dangerously high levels of viruses and bacteria from human sewage in Olympic and Paralympic venues. The Rodrigo de Freitas Lake, which was largely cleaned up in recent years, was thought be safe for rowers and canoers. Yet AP tests found its waters to be among the most polluted for Olympic sites. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)