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FILE - In this May 21, 2017 file photo, Sam Hunt arrives at the Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas. Hunt has beaten out Florida Georgia Line for a record number of weeks atop Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart with his single “Body Like a Back Road." (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)
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In this July 28, 2017 photo, a homesteader's log cabin is seen at the Homestead National Monument of America in Beatrice, Neb., one of the many places in Nebraska where the total solar eclipse on Aug. 21, 2017, can be seen. On Monday, July 31, 2017, Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts plans to announce a series of steps state agencies are taking to prepare for the solar eclipse, which is expected to draw visitors from around the world to the state. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
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FILE - This July 6, 2011, file photo shows a grizzly bear roaming near Beaver Lake in Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. For the second time in a decade, the U.S. government has removed grizzly bears in the Yellowstone region from the threatened species list. The decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to remove federal protections from the approximately 700 bears living across 19,000 square miles in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming took effect Monday, July 31, 2017. (AP Photo/Jim Urquhart, File)
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FILE - In this Sept. 25, 2013, file photo, a grizzly bear cub searches for fallen fruit beneath an apple tree a few miles from the north entrance to Yellowstone National Park in Gardiner, Mont. For the second time in a decade, the U.S. government has removed grizzly bears in the Yellowstone region from the threatened species list. The decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to remove federal protections from the approximately 700 bears living across 19,000 square miles in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming took effect Monday, July 31, 2017. (Alan Rogers/The Casper Star-Tribune via AP, file)
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In this July 18, 2017 photo, Energy Secretary Rick Perry attends a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington. The Trump administration says a Pennsylvania-based coal company has won a contract to supply coal used for heating to Ukraine’s state-owned power company. The deal announced Monday calls for Xcoal Energy and Resources to ship 700,000 tons of thermal coal to the Ukraine to heat homes and businesses. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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FILE - This April 9, 2012 file photo shows construction well underway for two new nuclear reactors at the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station in Jenkinsville, S.C. South Carolina's state-owned public utility has voted to stop construction on two billion-dollar nuclear reactors. The reactors were set to be among the first new nuclear reactors built in the U.S. in decades, but the vote by Santee Cooper’s board on Monday, July 31, 2017 likely ends their future. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)
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This June 20, 2017 photo shows Drew Redman and Ryan Johnson riding on the riverbed of the Little Missouri River in western North Dakota. The area is experiencing a drought this season, making it possible for Redman to ride across the low-flowing river. (AP Photo/Carey J. Williams)
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This June 19, 2017 photo shows a scenic landscape near the Theodore Roosevelt National Park in western North Dakota. Roosevelt hunted and ranched in the area in the 1880s. (AP Photo/Carey J. Williams)
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This June 18, 2017 photo shows the scenic landscape near the Theodore Roosevelt National Park in western North Dakota. Roosevelt hunted and ranched in the area in the 1880s. (AP Photo/Carey J. Williams)
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UAW Comes to a Mississippi Nissan Plant Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington
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Scott Haase, a farmer in Blue Earth, Minn., holds up an example of healthy soil onJuly 5, 2017,. The soil has a good amount of organic matter, making it clump together easily. (Elizabeth Dunbar /Minnesota Public Radio via AP)
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Scott Haase, a farmer in Blue Earth, Minn., looks out at a field where he planted cover crops between rows of corn on July 5, 2017. Miles from the farmers markets, craft breweries and farm-to-table restaurants of the Twin Cities, more traditional farmers are thriving in the Midwest. Corn and soybean farmers face heightened expectations for environmental stewardship and want to build healthy soils that can withstand heat, drought and heavy rain. (Elizabeth Dunbar /Minnesota Public Radio via AP)
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FILE – This Sept. 1, 2015, file photo shows a warning sign for algal toxins on a beach in Maumee Bay State Park, located on Lake Erie in Oregon, Ohio. Researchers are working on creating an early warning system that can spot when algae begins showing up on hundreds of lakes across the U.S., using real-time data from satellites that already monitor harmful algae hotspots on Lake Erie in Ohio and on the Chesapeake Bay along the East Coast. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)
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FILE – In this Aug. 3, 2014, file photo, the water intake crib for the city of Toledo, Ohio, is surrounded by an algae bloom on Lake Erie, about 2.5 miles off the shore of Curtice, Ohio. Researchers are working on creating an early warning system that can spot when algae begins showing up on hundreds of lakes across the U.S., using real-time data from satellites that already monitor harmful algae hotspots on Lake Erie in Ohio and on the Chesapeake Bay along the East Coast. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)
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In this Aug. 5, 2007 photo, vehicles are strewn amongst the wreckage of Interstate 35W bridge which collapsed over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017 marks the ten-year anniversary of the disaster killed 13 people and injured 145. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)
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In this Aug. 5, 2007 photo, vehicles are strewn amongst the wreckage of Interstate 35W bridge which collapsed over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017 marks the ten-year anniversary of the disaster killed 13 people and injured 145. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)
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In this Aug. 1, 2007 file photo, emergency personnel work at the scene where the Interstate 35W bridge collapsed over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017 marks the ten-year anniversary of the disaster killed 13 people and injured 145. (Jeff Wheeler/Star Tribune via AP File)
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In this Aug. 5, 2007 photo, vehicles are strewn amongst the wreckage of Interstate 35W bridge which collapsed over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017 marks the ten-year anniversary of the disaster killed 13 people and injured 145. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)
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FILE - In this Jan. 29, 2007, file photo, ripe tomatoes await harvesting at the Backyard Farms greenhouse in Madison, Maine. It is one of the largest hydroponic greenhouses in New England. North Country Growers plans to start building its two, 10-acre hydroponic greenhouses in Berlin, N.H., in 2017, with planting in July 2018 and its first harvest in autumn. (AP Photo by Robert F. Bukaty, File)
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In this July 18, 2017 photo, Tim Bento grills deer meat he obtained as roadkill along a highway at his home in Lynden, Was. Last July, the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission changed state code to allow the salvage of elk and deer accidentally killed by vehicles. In the program’s first year of existence, people plucked nearly 1,600 deer and elk off Washington roadways, according to a Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) database of permits required for salvage. (Mike Siegel/The Seattle Times via AP)
