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no-fly zone: Drones can distract pilots and damage aircraft, so the Federal Aviation Administration prohibits their flight in controlled airspaces and generally bans them from within 5 miles of airports. (Associated Press photographs)

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Illustration on waste spending by the Pentagon by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

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"The Arch" at the main entrance to Northwestern University's Evanston, Illinois campus (Wikimedia Commons)

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Smoke billows from a chimney of the Solvay factory for production and processing of plastic materials, in Ospiate, near Milan, Italy, Friday, Dec. 14, 2018. The climate change conference, COP24, is closing today in Katowice, Poland. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

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Illustration on Chinese global designs by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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U.S. and South Korean officials held a strategy meeting during the 2019 Moscow Nonproliferation Conference to discuss ways to renew talks between the U.S. and North Korea that broke down last month. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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A man is taken into custody at a Koch Foods Inc. plant in Morton, Miss., on Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019. U.S. immigration officials raided several Mississippi food processing plants on Wednesday and signaled that the early-morning strikes were part of a large-scale operation targeting owners as well as employees. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

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An artwork entitled 'One Heart One Tree' by artist Naziha Mestaoui is displayed on the Eiffel tower ahead of the 2015 Paris Climate Conference, in Paris, Sunday, Nov. 29, 2015. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will launch two weeks of climate talks starting Monday aiming at a long-term global agreement for all countries to reduce man-made emissions that heat the planet. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

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Activist/actress Jane Fonda discusses climate change on "The View," Nov. 5, 2019. (Image: ABC, "The View" screenshot)

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Solar Power Subsidies Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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D.C. Council member Mary Cheh says the electric scooters reduce carbon emissions, but "we don't yet have a safe electric scooter culture," which has proven to be a safety hazard in the city. (Associated Press)

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Illustration on the nation’s power grid by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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Illustration on threatened U.S. society by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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The International Energy Agency forecasts that offshore wind energy could become a $1 trillion industry by 2040, with major U.S. growth expected in next decade. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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The wildfire in Northern California has destroyed dozens of structures. Millions are facing power outages too, as the utility wants to avoid sparking more wildfires. A structure lost to a wildfire called the Kincade Fire is seen in Windsor, Calif., on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2019. (Guy Wathen/San Francisco Chronicle via AP) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 16, 1980 file photo, Republican nominee for Vice President George Bush, left, and Gerald Ford wave to crowds at a rally in Bloomfield, Mich. as they are joined by Republican presidential-hopeful Ronald Reagan and Michigan Gov. William G. Milliken, Michigan?Äôs longest-serving governor who established a record of environmental conservation and bipartisan cooperation that made him popular among Republicans and Democrats, died Friday, Oct. 18, 2019 at age 97, a family spokesman said.(AP Photo/Walt Zeboski, File)