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Demonstrators chant and hold signs behind a display of coal ash and the chemicals in it during a protest near Duke Energy's headquarters in Charlotte, N.C., Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014 over Duke Energy's coal plants. Duke Energy estimates that up to 82,000 tons of ash has been released from a break in a 48-inch storm water pipe at the Dan River Power Plant on Sunday. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
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Demonstrators hold signs and chant during a protest near Duke Energy's headquarters in Charlotte, N.C., Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014 over Duke Energy's coal plants. Duke Energy estimates that up to 82,000 tons of ash has been released from a break in a 48-inch storm water pipe at the Dan River Power Plant on Sunday. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
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Kate Fulbright, of Charlotte, N.C., shouts about Duke Energy's coal plants during a protest near Duke Energy's headquarters in Charlotte, N.C., Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014. Duke Energy estimates that up to 82,000 tons of ash has been released from a break in a 48-inch storm water pipe at the Dan River Power Plant on Sunday. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is one of 32 names on a Republican National Committee presidential straw poll. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Researcher Chris Smith checks blooms to see if field assistant Candace Fallon will be able to introduce Yucca moths to blooms on Joshua trees in the Mojave desert in Nevada on April 7, 2011. A century from now, the Mojave Desert's iconic plant could be pushing its way into new territory or teetering on the brink of extinction. This spring, a pair of researchers will go looking for clues to the Joshua tree's fate in a lonesome valley 140 miles north of Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal, Jessica Ebelhar)
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Field assistant Candace Fallon introduces Yucca moths to blooms on Joshua trees in the Mojave Desert during research on April 7, 2011. A century from now, the Mojave Desert's iconic plant could be pushing its way into new territory or teetering on the brink of extinction. This spring, a pair of researchers will go looking for clues to the Joshua tree's fate in a lonesome valley 140 miles north of Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal, Jessica Ebelhar)
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Helena National Forest Supervisor Bill Avey, center, shows U.S. Department of Agriculture Undersecretary Robert Bonnie the logging that has been done along the Upper Tenmile on Red Mountain, near Helena, Mont., on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Thursday it will spend $30 million this year on forest restoration projects in 12 states to reduce the threat of wildfires, protect water quality and improve wildlife habitat for at-risk species. (AP Photo/The Independent Record, Eliza Wiley)
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File - In this Sept. 18, 2013, file photo, an oil well pump site is reflected in flood waters near Greeley, Colo. Oil and gas regulators are discussing whether to create new rules after more than a dozen spills of petroleum products were blamed on major flooding last September. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, file)
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File - In this Sept. 17, 2013, file photo, a crude oil storage tank lies on its side in flood water along the South Platte River in Weld County, Colo. Oil and gas regulators are discussing whether to create new rules after more than a dozen spills of petroleum products were blamed on major flooding last September. (AP Photo/John Wark, file)
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This image provided by the Oregon Department of Transportation shows a traffic jam Thursday Feb. 6, 2014 near Albany, Ore. As many of 25 vehicles collided in clusters in southbound lanes near Albany, the state Department of Transportation said. A detour was then blocked by another crash. This storm is expected to drop snow throughout the state, with as many as nine inches accumulating in the central Willamette Valley.(AP Photo/ Oregon Department of Transportation)
