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This photo provided by the Alaska Department of Transportation shows snow from an avalanche covers a road outside of Valdez, Alaska on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014. Alaska highway officials say they expect to reopen an avalanche-choked highway by Wednesday afternoon, nearly two weeks after walls of snow cut off the only road into Valdez. (AP Photo/Alaska Dept. of Transportation)
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FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2010 file photo, a sea of stacks, pipes and storage tanks are amassed along the Houston ship channel in Houston. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency gave Texas on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014, authority over greenhouse gas permitting ending a lengthy, often bitter battle between the Lone Star State and the federal agency. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan, File)
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In this photo taken Monday, Feb. 3, 2014 and made available by Appalachian Voices, what might be coal ash is on the banks of the Dan River in Eden, N.C. Duke Energy estimates that up to 82,000 tons of ash accidentally spilled into the river Sunday, Feb. 2, 2014. Coal ash is the waste left after burning coal. It contains arsenic, mercury, lead, and over a dozen other heavy metals, many of them toxic. (AP Photo/Appalachian Voices, HO)
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In this image made Monday, Feb. 3, 2014, and released by Appalachian Voices, shows Matt Wasson, Director of Appalachian Voices as he tests the water on the Dan River near Eden, N.C. Duke Energy estimates that up to 82,000 tons of ash accidentally spilled into the river Sunday, Feb. 2, 2014. Coal ash is the waste left after burning coal. It contains arsenic, mercury, lead, and over a dozen other heavy metals, many of them toxic. (AP Photo/Appalachian Voices, HO)
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie addresses a gathering Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014, in Keansburg, N.J., of residents whose homes in Keansburg, were heavily damaged by Superstorm Sandy. Christie says he understands the frustration of Superstorm Sandy victims who still have not gotten their homes or their lives back together 15 months after the storm. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
