Dr. Jon Kosloski , the director of the Department of Defense’s All- domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), gave testimony to the Senate on Tuesday .

He said there were three cases that “merit analysis” that his team of investigators have yet to solve.

One of the cases was a law enforcement officer who saw a large orange orb floating several hundred feet above the ground, a couple miles away.

Another was a U.S. facility where two cars of government contractors were leaving the facility around 9 o'clock in the morning .

FEMA Director Deanne Criswell spoke to a House hearing about the political response to Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton .

She blamed the spread of “misinformation” for the slow response to disaster relief after the storms.

The hearing was held after reports of a former FEMA official directing her disaster response team to avoid the homes of Trump supporters.

In Troy , New York , regulators greenlit an 11 -unit apartment building on a vacant lot.

Concerned neighbors filed a lawsuit to keep outsiders out of the project.

New York's State Environmental Quality Review Act ( SEQRA ) makes it easy for citizens to stall or kill housing in New York .

National Infrastructure Commission set out the likely shortfall in water resources caused by climate change, population growth and the need to protect the environment from overabstraction.

Economic growth makes this a tougher challenge - you can’t build 1.5 million new homes unless you can supply them with water.

Government measures to design water efficiency into new house-building have not been implemented.

As a water-only company in the south east with a highly environmentally sensitive catchment, we at Affinity are only too aware of the challenges in delivering water security. We know we must make our own contribution reducing abstraction, cutting leakage, investing in new resources and working with our customers to help them use less. We also know that a national challenge needs a national response, and we are keen to play our part..

Researchers from Macquarie University in Sydney , Australia , have devised a way to help surfers avoid attacks from great white sharks.

The counterillumination’ strategy is inspired by nature whereby the juvenile plainfin midshipman fish has photospores on its underside that produce light and disrupt the shape of its silhouette.

SpaceX is set to conduct a sixth flight test of Starship on Tuesday .

The test will culminate in another attempt to catch the Super Heavy booster in midair as it returns to earth.

Live broadcasts will be available on the website, on the X TV app, and on @SpaceX.

The schedule is fluid and could change at any time.

Western publics are rejecting the self-destructive and immiserating policies of Net Zero .

The wind-energy sector is increasingly beleaguered and huge numbers of climate start-ups are failing.

The only major country set to benefit from the energy transition is China , which continues to spew more greenhouse gases than all advanced countries combined.

Trump ’s control of the Senate guarantees he will appoint judges who will severely limit the power of the environmental bureaucracies and progressive jurists to set fuel and emissions standards.

This could prove particularly tough for the left-leaning nonprofits, which can expect their gravy train to stall.

But don’t expect the big green investors, nonprofits and their allies in the media and academia to give up easily.

Leaders of the West want to spend upwards of $6 trillion annually for the next 30 years on green largesse.

But the current green agenda offers little more than immiseration.

It will force the masses to huddle in smaller dwelling units, enjoy less mobility, endure more costly home heating, less air-conditioning and a more austere diet.

Katharine Hayhoe : Climate change is no longer a future issue, it's already affecting us today .

Hayhoe was lead author of the National Climate Assessment under the last Trump administration.

She wants to see politicians arguing over who has the best solutions to climate change.

We need to lean into partnerships and partnerships that have multiple wins, she says.

You’ve talked about your faith and how it informs your thinking about climate.

Does that help when facing potential for adversity like we’re seeing now? Oh yes, it definitely does.

The most important part of my faith is what it says about our attitudes and our mindsets.

President-Elect Trump recently said he wants to move the bureaucracy of the Bureau of Land Management from Washington , D.C. to the West .

The western states have the ability now to manage lands for wildlife habitat, hunting and fishing, forests and fire, grazing, recreation, roads, and minerals.

In three closely watched races in Arizona , Montana , Louisiana , and Louisiana , Republican candidates either won or are in the lead.

Clean energy advocates cast these candidates as deferential to the power companies they aspired to regulate.

The Arizona Corporation Commission ’s most recent goal for renewable energy, set in 2007 , was an unambitious 15 percent .

Louisiana Public Service Commissioner Craig Greene is retiring at the end of his term.

Greene is considered the swing vote among the five commissioners, two of whom are Democrats .

On Tuesday , Greene ’s seat was won by Jean-Paul Coussan , a state senator from Lafayette .

Coussan has criticized renewables for “driv[ing] out oil and gas jobs”.