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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon on June 22, 2025. (Andrew Harnik via Getty Images)
Environment
Environment
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Crystals of gallium are seen in a laboratory at the TU Bergakademie in Freiberg, Germany, on September 13, 2023. (Hendrik Schmidt via Getty Images)
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A terrikon, a towering mound of mining waste, rises near a coal mine on February 22, 2025, in Donetsk Region, Ukraine. (Pierre Crom via Getty Images)
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Bucket-wheel excavators mine rare earth materials on Ukrainian soil on February 25, 2025, in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine. (Kostiantyn Liberov via Getty Images)
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A section of the Yarlung Tsangpo River on May 13, 2023. (Photo by Li Lin/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images)
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Rows of new energy vehicles seen in Chongqing, China, on June 16, 2024. (Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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The water level of the Yangtze River and Jialing River in Chongqing, China, on August 17, 2022. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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The ship Pavilion Aranda in Sabine Pass near the US Gulf Coast on June 21, 2023. (Julia Naue via Getty Images)
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Members of China's thirteenth Arctic Ocean scientific expedition team conduct a sampling operation aboard China's polar icebreaker Xuelong 2 on August 6, 2023. (Wei Hongyi/Xinhua via Getty Images)
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A billboard displays a temperature of 118 degrees Fahrenheit in Phoenix, Arizona, on July 18, 2023. (Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)
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Joe Biden at the NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, on July 12, 2023. (Dominika Zarzycka via Getty Images)
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The expedition cruise ship Polar Pioneer at Gnålodden in the Hornsund in Svalbard, Norway, on July 15, 2015. (Wolfgang Kaehler via Getty Images)
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The second oil well drilled, outside of the Otuabagi community, continues to leak crude despite being capped in Bayelsa, Nigeria. (James Barnett via New Lines Magazine)
Experts
Brigham A. McCown
Senior Fellow and Director, Initiative on American Energy Security
