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FILE - In this Sept. 1, 2009, file photo debris lies along the Passaic River near the stadium for the MLS New York Red Bulls soccer team in Harrison, N.J. The Environmental Protection Agency has secured a $165 million agreement with Occidental Chemical to start the cleanup of one of the nation's most seriously contaminated bodies of water. The deal announced Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016, covers the lower 8 miles of New Jersey's Passaic River, where the sediment contains dioxin, PCBs, heavy metals, pesticides and other contaminants. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)

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South Carolina National Guard vehicles head east on U.S. Highway 378 after leaving their headquarters on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016, near Columbia, S.C. Guard units are helping with traffic and other preparations for Hurricane Matthew. South Carolina authorities are preparing to evacuate more than 1 million people, or about a quarter of the state's population, from low-lying coastal areas as Hurricane Matthew threatens. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)

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Farmer Jeremy Cannon checks his combine as he gets ready to rush the harvest of his soybean crop on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016, at his farm in Turbeville, S.C. Cannon and other farmers are worried Hurricane Matthew could flood fields and knock down crops. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)

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Two boys float in an old wooden box in an area flooded by heavy rains caused by Hurricane Matthew, in La Puya slum, in the Arroyo Hondo creek in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016. Matthew roared into the southwestern coast of the island of Hispaniola with devastating storm conditions as it headed north toward Cuba and the eastern coast of Florida. (AP Photo/Ezequiel Abiu Lopez)

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Gov. Nikki Haley announces that she plans to call for the evacuation of about 1 million people from South Carolina's coast as Hurricane Matthew threatens on Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016, at the South Carolina Emergency Management Division headquarters in Pine Ridge, S.C. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)

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Shoppers look for items amid the generators, cases of water and gas cans at Lowe's in Oakland Park, Fla., Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016. Anxious Florida residents raided grocery store shelves and North Carolina called for the evacuation of three barrier islands as Hurricane Matthew, the most powerful Atlantic storm in a about decade, threatened to rake a large swath of the East Coast in the coming days. (Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP) ** FILE **

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Danny Delarocca, of Boca Raton, loads plywood onto his brother's car at the Home Depot in Deerfield Beach, Fla. Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016. Anxious Florida residents raided grocery store shelves and North Carolina called for the evacuation of three barrier islands as Hurricane Matthew, the most powerful Atlantic storm in a about decade, threatened to rake a large swath of the East Coast in the coming days. (Maria Lorenzino/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP)

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Residents wade through flood waters in Leogane, Haiti, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016. Matthew slammed into Haiti's southwestern tip with howling, 145 mph winds Tuesday, tearing off roofs in the poor and largely rural area, uprooting trees and leaving rivers bloated and choked with debris. ( AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

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FILE - In this Aug. 9, 2015, file photo, Arkansas NCAA college football coach Bret Bielema addresses members of the press during the team's annual media day event in Fayetteville, Ark. After high school football star Kyler Williams died in a car crash, Bielema retweeted a photo Williams had posted on Twitter three weeks earlier following a tour of Arkansas’ campus. Then he started worrying about what he’d just done. (AP Photo/Samantha Baker, File)

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The GOES East satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and taken Monday, Oct. 3, 2016, at 9:15 a.m. EDT, shows Hurricane Matthew about 220 miles southeast of Kingston, Jamaica. Hurricane Matthew roared across the southwestern tip of Haiti with 145 mph winds Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016, uprooting trees and tearing roofs from homes in a largely rural corner of the impoverished country as the storm headed north toward Cuba and the east coast of Florida. (NOAA via AP)

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Hollywood actor and activist Leonardo DiCaprio appears with President Obama in the trailer for his upcoming climate change documentary "Before the Flood." (YouTube, National Geographic)

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FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012, file photo, vehicles are reflected on the logo of the Nissan Motors Co. at a showroom in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district. The government is investigating complaints that side air bags on some Nissan Versa small cars can inflate if the driver or passenger doors are slammed too hard. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016, that the probe covers about 155,000 cars from the 2012 model year. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File)

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FILE - In this March 13, 2015, file photo, a worker inspects a new 2015 aluminum-alloy body Ford F-150 truck at the company's Kansas City Assembly Plant in Claycomo, Mo. U.S. safety regulators are investigating whether a recall of Ford F-150 pickup trucks for brake failures should be expanded to more model years. The probe covers about 282,000 pickups with 3.5-liter six-cylinder engines from 2015 and 2016. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

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In this frame from video provided by WABC-TV, firefighters work at the scene after an explosion in Paterson, N.J., Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016. Multiple houses were destroyed in an explosion that occurred after neighbors reported the smell of gas and firefighters arrived to investigate. (WABC-TV via AP)

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A girl watches as authorities arrive to evacuate people from her house in Tabarre, Haiti, Monday, Oct. 3, 2016. The center of Hurricane Matthew is expected to pass near or over southwestern Haiti on Tuesday, but the area is already experiencing rain from the outer bands of the storm. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

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The head of Iran's space agency, Mohsen Bahrami, speaks during a news conference at his office, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016. Speaking to reporters at the start of World Space Week, Bahrami said his country is interested in cooperating with NASA. Iran has long harbored ambitions to launch satellites to monitor natural disasters in the earthquake-prone nation. The U.S. and its allies are concerned the same technology could be used to develop long-range missiles. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

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The body of Ventura County Fire Engineer Ryan Osler is carried to a fire truck for his final trip during ceremonies Monday, Oct. 3, 2016. Osler was killed in a an accident while on duty on Sept. 21, 2016. Hundreds of firefighters from around the state attended the services. (David Crane/Los Angeles Daily News via AP)

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Dubbed the "Metrorail Safety Commission Interstate Compact," the legislation would authorize a group of oversight officials to devise and enforce Metro safety rules, conduct inspections, impose citations and order priority funding. (Associated Press)

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Lump of Coal Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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Lump of Coal Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times