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File-This Jan. 14, 2014 file photo shows a bald eagle sits on a branch overlooking the Allegheny River on the Northside of Pittsburgh. In forty years, the U.S. government has spent billions of dollars trying to save some 1,500 species deemed endangered. House Republicans say that's translated into just 2 percent of protected species being recovered, and they want to overhaul the Endangered Species Act. Environmentalists and many Democrats credit the act with saving species from extinction. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar,File)
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FILE - In this May 8, 2003, file photo, a northern spotted owl sits on a tree in the Deschutes National Forest near Camp Sherman, Ore. In forty years, the U.S. government has spent billions of dollars trying to save some 1,500 species deemed endangered. House Republicans say that's translated into just 2 percent of protected species being recovered, and they want to overhaul the Endangered Species Act. Environmentalists and many Democrats credit the act with saving species from extinction. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, File)
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FILE - In this July 16, 2004, file photo, is a gray wolf at the Wildlife Science Center in Forest Lake, Minn. In forty years, the U.S. government has spent billions of dollars trying to save some 1,500 species deemed endangered. House Republicans say that's translated into just 2 percent of protected species being recovered, and they want to overhaul the Endangered Species Act. Environmentalists and many Democrats credit the act with saving species from extinction. (AP Photo/Dawn Villella, File)
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File-This Dec. 5, 2014 file photo shows a grizzly bear roams his pen, at Denver Zoo. In forty years, the U.S. government has spent billions of dollars trying to save some 1,500 species deemed endangered. House Republicans say that's translated into just 2 percent of protected species being recovered, and they want to overhaul the Endangered Species Act. Environmentalists and many Democrats credit the act with saving species from extinction. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley,File)
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Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan W. Greenert, left, accompanied by Adm. John M. Richardson, director of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program, speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014. The Navy is investigating alleged cheating on tests by senior enlisted sailors training on naval nuclear reactors at Charleston, S.C., officials said Tuesday (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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Adm. John M. Richardson, director of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program, right, accompanied by Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan W. Greenert speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014. The Navy is investigating alleged cheating on tests by senior enlisted sailors training on naval nuclear reactors at Charleston, S.C., officials said Tuesday (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan W. Greenert, left, accompanied by Adm. John M. Richardson, director of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program, speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014. The Navy is investigating alleged cheating on tests by senior enlisted sailors training on naval nuclear reactors at Charleston, S.C., officials said Tuesday (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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Adm. John M. Richardson, director of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program, speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014. The Navy is investigating alleged cheating on tests by senior enlisted sailors training on naval nuclear reactors at Charleston, S.C., officials said Tuesday (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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In this Jan. 16, 2014 photo provided by the Wildlife Conservation Society, twin, juvenile Geoffroy's marmosets cling to a branch at the Prospect Park Zoo in New York. Also known as "white-fronted marmosets," Geoffroy's marmosets are native to small parts of the Atlantic rainforest in eastern Brazil. (AP Photo/Wildlife Conservation Society, Julie Larsen Maher)
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U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell leads a roundtable discussion at the University of Washington’s College of the Environment, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014, in Seattle. As part of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan to cut carbon pollution, develop domestic clean energy sources and create American jobs, the gathering focused on climate change impacts to the Pacific Northwest. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, left, talks with Lisa Graumlich, dean of the College of the Environment, before beginning a roundtable discussion at the University of Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014, in Seattle. As part of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan to cut carbon pollution, develop domestic clean energy sources and create American jobs, the gathering focused on climate change impacts to the Pacific Northwest. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
