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Michael Regan currently leads the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality and previously worked on air quality policy at the EPA.

Biden To Pick North Carolina Regulator Michael Regan To Lead EPA

Regan is the top environmental regulator for North Carolina. He would be first African American man to run the EPA, and he would oversee much of the federal government's response to climate change.

Power company Entergy failed to rebuild a stronger system in New Orleans after hurricanes repeatedly damaged the city's electric grid. Then Hurricane Ida knocked out power for more than a week in the middle of a heat wave.

Entergy Resisted Upgrading New Orleans' Power Grid. Residents Paid The Price

Entergy failed to rebuild a stronger system after hurricanes repeatedly damaged its electric grid. Then Hurricane Ida knocked out power for more than a week in the middle of a heat wave.

Wilma Banks, who lives in the neighborhood of New Orleans East, sits on her bed next to her nebulizer and CPAP machine. In the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, when much of New Orleans was left without power, she wasn't able to power up the medical devices and had only her limited supply of inhalers to widen her airways.

Entergy Resisted Upgrading New Orleans' Power Grid. Residents Paid the Price

Entergy failed to rebuild a stronger system after hurricanes repeatedly damaged its electric grid. Then Hurricane Ida knocked out power for more than a week in the middle of a heat wave.

Jacques Enoch with his bike in the Alps in 1941. Danièle Enoch-Maillard's father, who was Jewish, survived World War II in an Alpine village with the help of a deputy mayor and a postal worker who sent smoke signals every time the Nazis headed up the mountain road to the hamlet.

Waiting Out Coronavirus In The French Alps, 'Cooped Up In The Great Outdoors'

A 73-year-old French woman in confinement in Chamonix recalls her Jewish father, who survived World War II hiding out in a nearby village. Others sent him smoke signals to warn when Nazis were near.

Work on Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral continues following a devastating fire in April.

What Will A Reconstructed Notre Dame Look Like? The Answer Is Up For Debate

Architects from around the world have flooded social media with their visions of a new Notre Dame. But 55% of French respondents say they want the cathedral to be just as it was before, a poll finds.

President Biden has vowed quick action on climate change, appointing the largest climate staff of any president.

Biden To Move Quickly On Climate Change, Reversing Trump Rollbacks

President Biden has set his sights on more than 100 Trump administration environmental rollbacks as well as plans to rejoin the international climate accord.

Firefighters work to extinguish the blaze at the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes on Saturday. The fire shattered stained-glass windows and sent black smoke billowing from between its two towers.

Blaze At Centuries-Old Cathedral In Nantes Under Investigation As Arson

The fire at the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul called to mind the one at Notre Dame Cathedral last year. French officials say they have controlled the blaze and avoided a "Notre Dame scenario."

See How 5 Black Women Photographers Told The Story Of New York's Fashion Week

These photographs tell the story behind each person's fashion choices, from self expression to self preservation to transformation.

A forthcoming report says a division within the Department of Homeland Security missed signs of potential violence prior to the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

Report: DHS Division Failed To Analyze Intelligence Ahead Of Capitol Violence

A forthcoming report says DHS officials had the intelligence they needed to predict that the pro-Trump rally would become violent. What was missing was DHS telling the people who needed to know.

Aircraft assigned to Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 17 fly over the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group and the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group in the South China Sea on Tuesday.

U.S. Carriers Train In South China Sea In Likely Signal To Beijing

The move appears to be a show of strength meant to signal the new administration's determination to stand firm against China's steady encroachment in the strategic waterway.

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