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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)
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This July 12, 2017, photo, Tyler Arnold weighs a boreal toad that was found near a pond in the Monte Cristo Range, Utah. Biologists in Utah are working to save native boreal toads from extinction in the face of habitat destruction by humans and competition from invasive species like bullfrogs. (Benjamin Zack /Standard-Examiner via AP)
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This July 12, 2017, photo, Tyler Arnold holds an adult boreal toad found in the Monte Cristo Range, Utah. Biologists in Utah are working to save native boreal toads from extinction in the face of habitat destruction by humans and competition from invasive species like bullfrogs. (Benjamin Zack/Standard-Examiner via AP)
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This July 12, 2017, photo, Tyler Arnold, left, Jared Watson, center, and Cody Edwards search for boreal toads in the Monte Cristo Range, Utah. Biologists in Utah are working to save native boreal toads from extinction in the face of habitat destruction by humans and competition from invasive species like bullfrogs. (Benjamin Zack/Standard-Examiner via AP)
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The Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica is docked in Nuuk, Greenland, after traversing the Northwest Passage through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Saturday, July 29, 2017. After 24 days at sea and a journey spanning more than 10,000 kilometers (6,214 miles), the MSV Nordica has set a new record for the earliest transit of the fabled Northwest Passage. The once-forbidding route through the Arctic, linking the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans, has been opening up sooner and for a longer period each summer due to climate change. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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Canadian ice navigator, David "Duke" Snider takes a photo from the bridge as the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica arrives into Nuuk, Greenland, after traversing the Northwest Passage through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Saturday, July 29, 2017. After 24 days at sea and a journey spanning more than 10,000 kilometers (6,214 miles), the MSV Nordica has set a new record for the earliest transit of the fabled Northwest Passage. The once-forbidding route through the Arctic, linking the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans, has been opening up sooner and for a longer period each summer due to climate change. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
