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This Jan. 29, 2014 photo provided by the American Red Cross shows shows Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Chairman Dave Archambault II, left, Vice Chair Jesse McLaughlin, center, and Black Hills Red Cross Executive Director Richard Smith during a meeting in Standing Rock Reservation tribal office in Fort Yates, N.D. The meeting was to discuss the propane shortage for American Indian tribes in the Dakotas. The federal government has released more money for a program that helps low-income people heat their homes, and nearly $1.3 million is earmarked for American Indian tribes in the Dakotas. Archambault says the additional money might not be enough to deal with a propane crisis on that reservation. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the American Red Cross, Johnelle Leingang)
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Hundreds of hockey players participate in the Pond Hockey ice hockey tournament in Lake Winnipesaukee's Meredith Bay Friday Jan. 31, 2014 in Meredith, N.H. As thousands of winter sports enthusiasts take to the lakes this weekend, a warning by the state Fish and Game department says that despite a cold winter that ice levels on the lakes are unpredictable. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)
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Mike Fortier walks off Lake Winnipesaukee Friday, Jan. 31, 2014 by a section of thin ice and open water in a section of the lake called the Broads in Gilford, N.H. As thousands of winter sports enthusiasts take to the lakes this weekend, a warning by the state Fish and Game department says that despite a cold winter that ice levels on the lakes are unpredictable. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)
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FILE - In this April 19, 2012, file photo, an irrigation pivot remains still along highway 14, several miles near the proposed new route for the Keystone XL pipeline in Neligh, Neb. In a move that disappointed environmental groups and cheered the oil industry, the Obama administration on Jan. 31, 2014, said it had no major environmental objections to the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
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In this May 24, 2012 file photo, some of about 500 miles worth of coated steel pipe manufactured by Welspun Pipes, Inc., originally for the Keystone oil pipeline, is stored in Little Rock, Ark. In a move that disappointed environmental groups and cheered the oil industry, the Obama administration on Jan. 31, 2014, said it had no major environmental objections to the proposed Keystone XL pipeline from Canada. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)
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FILE - In this March 11, 2013, file photo, a sign reading "Stop the Transcanada Pipeline" stands in a field near Bradshaw, Neb. The proposed Keystone XL pipeline will run through this field. In a move that disappointed environmental groups and cheered the oil industry, the Obama administration on Jan. 31, 2014, said it had no major environmental objections to the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
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File-This undated file image provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a Mexican gray wolf leaving cover at the Seviellta National Wildlife Refuge, north of Soccorro, N. M. There are more Mexican gray wolves in the wild in the New Mexico and Arizona than last year. The results of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's annual survey were released Friday Jan. 31, 2014. There are at least 83 of the endangered predators in the two states, marking the fourth year in a row the population has increased. (AP Photo/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Jim Clark, File)
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FILE - In this Dec. 18, 2013 file photo, then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks in New York. Bloomberg has been chosen by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to be a U.N. envoy for cities and climate change, U.N. diplomats said Friday, Jan. 31, 2014 The billionaire businessman and philanthropist turned politician made combating climate change a major focus of his 12 years as mayor. He was also very outspoken on how cities should be run to cope with ever increasing populations. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)
