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A fire at a biodiesel facility near New Albany, Miss., burns Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014. The fire was so hot that firefighters could not get close enough to fight it, the Mississippi Highway Patrol said. The plant is located near New Albany on Mississippi Highway 15, which has been closed to traffic. Firefighters are letting it burn out. (AP Photo/The New Albany Gazette, Angie Barmer) MANDATORY CREDIT
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A fire at a biodiesel facility near New Albany, Miss., burns early Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014. The fire was so hot that firefighters could not get close enough to fight it, the Mississippi Highway Patrol said. The plant is located near New Albany on Mississippi Highway 15, which has been closed to traffic. Firefighters are letting it burn out. (AP Photo/The New Albany Gazette, Angie Barmer) MANDATORY CREDIT
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In this photo provided by the Mississippi Highway Patrol, a fire at a biodiesel facility near New Albany, Miss., burns early Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014. The fire was so hot that firefighters could not get close enough to fight it, the Mississippi Highway Patrol said. The plant is located near New Albany on Mississippi Highway 15, which has been closed to traffic. Firefighters are letting it burn out. (AP Photo/Mississippi Highway Patrol via The Mississippi Department of Public Safety) MANDATORY CREDIT
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"My aim is to make sure that energy remains affordable for households and companies," says Gunther Oettinger, energy commissioner for the European Commission. Leaders in the European Union are revamping their approach to climate change because higher energy costs have not sit well with consumers in a struggling economy. (Associated Press)
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FILE - This March 18, 2011 file photo shows U.S. Bureau of Land Management forester Craig Brown checking the slope of a planned road on a logging project on U.S. Bureau of Land Management forest outside Ruch, Ore. Conservation groups have filed a lawsuit challenging a BLM timber sale outside Canyonville, Ore., that demonstrates the kind of ecosystem-driven logging that would be fast-tracked under Sen. Ron Wyden's bill to increase harvests from the so-called O&C lands in western Oregon. (AP Photo/Jeff Barnard)
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Bay Area Rapid Transit general manager Grace Crunican, center, listens as BART police chief Kenton Rainey talks about the shooting of a BART officer who was killed by a fellow officer during a news conference Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014, in Oakland, Calif. Authorities say a San Francisco Bay Area public transit officer who was shot and killed Tuesday by a fellow officer while searching an apartment was looking for a laptop and other stolen items. Rainey declined to disclose any further details of how the shooting of Sgt. Tom Smith occurred. A robbery suspect was in custody. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
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Bay Area Rapid Transit police chief Kenton Rainey, right, talks about the shooting of a BART officer who was killed by a fellow officer during a news conference Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014, in Oakland, Calif. Authorities say a San Francisco Bay Area public transit officer who was shot and killed Tuesday by a fellow officer while searching an apartment was looking for a laptop and other stolen items. Rainey declined to disclose any further details of how the shooting of Sgt. Tom Smith occurred. A robbery suspect was in custody. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
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In this undated photo released by Bay Area Rapid Transit shows police Sgt. Tom Smith. Authorities say the BART police officer was shot and killed by a fellow officer while searching an apartment looking for a laptop and other stolen items on Tuesday Jan. 21, 2014 in Dublin, Calif. (AP Photo/Bay Area Rapid Transit)
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This book cover image released by The Penguin Press shows "Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming," by McKenzie Funk. (AP Photo/The Penguin Press)
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In this photo taken on Friday, Jan. 17, 2014, a bald eagle perches on a tree limb near Sheffield, Ala. Wildlife enthusiasts said for several years there were only one or two eagle's nests in the Shoals area of northwest Alabama. That has slowly changed thanks to a plan implemented in the 1980s and 1990s. (AP Photo/The TimesDaily, Allison Carter
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Gov. Jerry Brown, delivers his annual State of the State address before a joint session of the Legislature at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014. Brown delivered a dual message to lawmakers, that a California resurgence is well underway but is threatened by economic and environmental uncertainties.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)