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FILE - In this May 30, 2013 file photo, James Taylor performs at the Boston Strong Concert: An Evening of Support and Celebration at the TD Garden, in Boston. The singer-songwriter is starring in a television ad for an environmental group urging North Carolinians to challenge efforts to allow natural gas exploration through hydraulic fracturing in the state where he grew up. The Natural Resources Defense Council said the ad began running Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014. (Photo by Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Invision/AP, file)
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FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2013 file photo Tom Duerst plants winter wheat at his farm near Verona, Wis. Wisconsin farmers stopped working hundreds of thousands of acres during five years of heavy farm closures that a federal report described Thursday as among the most significant in the nation. (AP Photo/Andy Manis, File)
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FILE - This undated file aerial photo shows the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M. The U.S. Department of Energy has appointed a team to investigate the detection of radiation in and near the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant facility that's the nation's only underground nuclear waste repository in operation. An underground monitor at the plant near Carlsbad detected airborne radiation late Friday night, Feb. 14, and an independent monitor center said Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014 that it found radioactive isotopes in an air sensor a half-mile from the plant. The assessment of facility will be conducted by an accident investigation board consisting of department officials and representatives of health and safety agencies, the department said in a statement released late Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Carlsbad Current Argus, File)
