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FILE - Hawaii Gov. Josh Green speaks at a news conference in Honolulu on Friday, Dec. 15, 2023. Hawaii's governor and lawyers for youth plaintiffs on Thursday, June 20, 2024, announced they settled a lawsuit alleging Hawaii violated the state constitution by operating a transportation system that harmed the climate and infringed upon the children's right to a clean and healthy environment..(AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy, File)
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Hawaii settles climate change lawsuit filed by youth plaintiffs

HONOLULU (AP) — Thirteen children and teens in Hawaii took the state government to court over the threat posed by climate change. Now...

FILE - In this Nov. 1, 2017 file photo high power cables hang from a pole on a field in Hattersheim, Germany. A state-owned Dutch company that is the biggest electricity grid operator in Germany said Thursday, June 20, 2024 that talks on selling its German business to the government in Berlin have been terminated due to the administration's budget constraints. TenneT, one of four transmission network operators in Germany, announced plans for the talks in February 2023. (AP Photo/Michael Probst,file)
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Germany and Dutch-owned operator end talks on grid sale because of budget constraints

Biggest electricity grid operator in Germany said Thursday that talks on selling its German business to the government in Berlin have been terminated.

Muslim pilgrims use umbrellas to shield themselves from the sun as they gather outside Nimrah Mosque to offer the noon prayers in Arafat, on the second day of the annual hajj pilgrimage, near the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Saturday, June 15, 2024. Masses of Muslims gathered at the sacred hill of Mount Arafat in Saudi Arabia for worship and reflection on the second day of the Hajj pilgrimage. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
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CLIMATE GLIMPSE: Scorching Northern Hemisphere heat leads to deaths and wildfires

Extreme weather conditions are causing problems the world over.

A woman wearing a traditional costume drinks water in a hot and sunny day in Beijing, Sunday, June 16, 2024. China is being buffeted by two weather extremes, with heavy rain and flooding in parts of the south and a heat wave and potential drought in the north. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
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China is getting too much rain in the south and not enough rain, plus a heat wave, in the north

China is being buffeted by two weather extremes, with heavy rain and flooding in parts of the south and a heat wave and...

FILE - Wind turbines are seen from Interstate-84, July 9, 2023, near Hammett, Idaho. The federal Bureau of Land Management’s preferred alternative for a proposed large-scale wind energy farm in southern Idaho would shrink its size by nearly half and move it farther from a national historic site. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)
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Bureau of Land Management shrinks proposed size of controversial Idaho wind farm project

A proposed wind farm in Idaho may now be moved further from the Minidoka National Historic Site.

A car owner pumps at a petrol station in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Monday, June 10, 2024. Diesel price in Malaysia jumped by more than 50% on Monday as part of a revamp of decades-old fuel subsidies to tighten government spending and save billions of ringgits annually. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
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Diesel prices jump 56% as Malaysia revamps fuel subsidies

Malaysia's Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim announced the decision to cut diesel subsidies last month so lower-income groups could prepare.

This photo provided by Riposte Alimentaire shows an environmental activist posing by 'Poppy Field'' by Claude Monet at the Orsay museum, Saturday, June 1, 2024 in Paris. The activist was detained after sticking a protest sign on a Monet painting, calling for action to protect food supplies from further damage to the climate. (Riposte Alimentaire via AP)
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Climate activist in Paris sticks protest poster on Monet’s ‘Poppy Field’

An environmental campaigner stuck a protest sign on a famous Money painting at the Musée d'Orsay.

FILE - Chairs stand at the Gates post office in the aftermath of a fire in Gates, Ore., Sept 9, 2020. Oregon utility regulators have rejected a request from PacifiCorp that sought to limit its liability in wildfire lawsuits. KGW reports that the proposal would have limited the company's wildfire liability to just economic damages. (Mark Ylen/Albany Democrat-Herald via AP, File)
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Oregon regulator rejects PacifiCorp bid to limit wildfire liability

Oregon utility regulators say no to request from PacifiCorp to limit its liability over 2020 wildfires.

Drivers navigate high water on Yale Street in the Heights after a strong storm blew in Tuesday, May 28, 2024, in Houston. (Karen Warren/Houston Chronicle via AP)
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Crews race to restore power across Texas ahead of more storms

The ongoing power outages following storms in north Texas prompted the Garland Independent School District in suburban Dallas to cancel classes for the...

FILE - A Model X sports-utility vehicle sits outside a Tesla store in Littleton, Colo., June 18, 2023. Electric vehicle maker Tesla has begun construction of a factory in Shanghai to make its Megapack energy storage batteries, Chinese state media reported Thursday, May 23, 2024. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
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EV maker Tesla breaks ground on Shanghai storage battery factory

Tesla Megapack factory construction begins, with aim to start mass production of the battery storage units by early 2025.

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