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Amazon Busts Through the Bricks and Mortar Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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FILE - In this April 27, 2017, file photo, the Harley-Davidson name is seen on the gas tank of a motorcycle in Northbrook, Ill. The Justice Department is seeking to waive part of the penalty Harley Davidson Inc. agreed to pay in 2016 to settle a case over air pollution involving racing tuners that caused its motorcycles to emit higher-than-allowed pollution levels.The Justice Department on July 20, 2017, filed a new consent decree with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. It eliminates a requirement that the Milwaukee-based company spend $3 million to curb air pollution in local communities by paying to replace conventional woodstoves with cleaner-burning versions. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)
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In this Friday, July 10, 2015 photo, a Karner Blue butterfly rests on the finger of Neil Gifford, conservation director at the Albany Pine Bush Preserve Commission, after it was released at the preserve in Albany, N.Y. Wildlife officials announced Thursday, July 20, 2017, that the butterfly on the federal endangered species list is doing well in the sandy pine barrens west of Albany. The butterfly is also making a comeback through recovery efforts in Ohio and New Hampshire. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)
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FILE - In this July 10, 2015 file photo, a Karner Blue butterfly is seen after it was released at the Albany Pine Bush Preserve Commission in Albany, N.Y. Wildlife officials announced Thursday, July 20, 2017, that the butterfly on the federal endangered species list is doing well in the sandy pine barrens west of Albany. The butterfly is also making a comeback through recovery efforts in Ohio and New Hampshire. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)
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In this July 13, 2017 photo, men remove mud from a shallow channel so that tourist boats will be able to move through the channel, in Xochimilco, Mexico City. Some of Mexico City’s most in-demand restaurants are increasingly incorporating produce grown at the famed aquatic gardens of Xochimilco (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
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The Trempealeau River flooded in downtown Arcadia, Wis., Thursday, July 20, 2017. Several hundred people in the Trempealeau County city of Arcadia voluntarily evacuated flooded neighborhoods and the downtown area starting about 2:30 a.m., Mayor Robert Reichwein told The Associated Press. (Elizabeth Flores/Star Tribune via AP)
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Eric Canape, left standing, a member of the Pessamit Innu tribal nation of Quebec, Canada, speaks during a meeting with opponents of a proposed Northern Pass power project Thursday, July 20, 2017, in Concord, N.H. Tribal representatives Jean-Noel Riverin, second from right, and Gerald Hervieux, right, also attended. The tribe opposes the U.S. power project, saying it would accommodate a hydro-power company that has decimated a salmon fishery in Quebec that the tribe depends upon. (AP Photo/Bill Sikes)
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Edgar St-Onge, center, an elder of the Pessamit Innu tribal nation of Quebec, Canada, speaks during a meeting with opponents of a proposed Northern Pass power project Thursday, July 20, 2017, in Concord, N.H. The tribe opposes the U.S. power project, saying it would accommodate a hydro-power company that has decimated a salmon fishery in Quebec that the tribe depends upon. (AP Photo/Bill Sikes)
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Sea ice breaks up as the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica sails through the Beaufort Sea off the coast of Alaska while traversing the Arctic's Northwest Passage, Sunday, July 16, 2017. Icebreakers are the battering rams of far northern climes. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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Workers walk and climb through the rubble and mud Thursday, July 20, 2017, as they assess the damage from the Turton Creek flooding in Arcadia, Wis., following thunderstorms the night before. Several hundred people evacuated their homes early Thursday in the small western Wisconsin community. (Chuck Miller/The Daily News via AP)
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FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2013, file photo, a driver passes the small boat harbor in King Cove, Alaska. The House has approved legislation allowing a proposed road through a remote national wildlife refuge in Alaska that was rejected by the Obama administration. A bill approved July 20 would grant a land exchange allowing Alaska to build the long-disputed road between two rural communities, King Cove and Cold Bay, near the tip of the Alaska Peninsula 600 miles (965 kilometers) southwest of Anchorage.(James Brooks/Kodiak Daily Mirror via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT
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Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner, left, talks with W.J. Murphy Elementary School Principal Phil Georgia as he tours the flood damaged school in Round Lake, Ill., Wednesday, July 19, 2017. (Steve Lundy/Daily Herald via AP)
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Flooding from heavy rains damaged the library at W.J. Murphy Elementary School in Round Lake, Ill. Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner toured the flood damaged school on Wednesday. (Steve Lundy/Daily Herald via AP)
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FILE - IN this Dec. 2, 2009, file photo, the Total Port Arthur refinery is shown in Port Arthur, Texas. Federal lawsuits against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will be filed claiming the agency has failed to correct Texas air pollution control permits with loopholes that make state enforcement rare. The suits, to be filed Thursday, July 20, 2017, by the nonprofit Washington, D.C.-based Environmental Integrity Project, target permits for the largest integrated petrochemical factory in the U.S., three refineries near the Houston Ship Channel including the largest petroleum refinery in the U.S. and a coal-fired power plant east of Dallas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)
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FILE - In this Tuesday, June 28, 2011, file photo, an oil tanker is docked at the Exxon Mobile Baytown complex along the Houston Ship Channel in Baytown, Texas. Federal lawsuits against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will be filed claiming the agency has failed to correct Texas air pollution control permits with loopholes that make state enforcement rare. The suits, to be filed Thursday, July 20, 2017, by the nonprofit Washington, D.C.-based Environmental Integrity Project, target permits for the largest integrated petrochemical factory in the U.S., three refineries near the Houston Ship Channel including the largest petroleum refinery in the U.S. and a coal-fired power plant east of Dallas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)
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Sun sets over burnt trees of the Castelfusano pine forest, near Rome, Italy, Tuesday, July 18, 2017. Wildfires have been ravaging swaths of Italy, mostly in the south, where the Coldiretti agricultural lobby says July rain levels were down 83 percent while temperatures were around 3 degrees Celsius higher. (Massimo Percossi/ANSA via AP)
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FILE- In this Sunday, June 18, 2017, file photo, Portuguese firefighters work to stop a forest fire from reaching the village of Figueiro dos Vinhos in central Portugal. Portuguese lawmakers agreed Wednesday, July 19, 2017, on new measures to help contain the fires that race through the country's forests each summer, after one wildfire last month that killed 64 people. (AP Photo/Paulo Duarte, file)
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Burnt trees are pictured in the Castelfusano pine forest, near Rome, Italy, Wednesday, July 19, 2017. Wildfires have been ravaging swaths of Italy, mostly in the south, where the Coldiretti agricultural lobby says July rain levels were down 83 percent while temperatures were around 3 degrees Celsius higher. (Massimo Percossi/ANSA via AP)
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Burnt trees are pictured in the Castelfusano pine forest, near Rome, Italy, Wednesday, July 19, 2017. Wildfires have been ravaging swaths of Italy, mostly in the south, where the Coldiretti agricultural lobby says July rain levels were down 83 percent while temperatures were around 3 degrees Celsius higher. (Massimo Percossi/ANSA via AP)
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In this June 23, 2017 photo, trains are lined up near a section of Highway 99 in Fresno, Calif. California’s vast San Joaquin Valley, the country’s most productive farming region, is engulfed by some of the nation’s dirtiest skies, forcing the state’s largest air district to spend more than $40 billion in the past quarter-century to enforce hundreds of stringent pollution rules. The investment has steadily driven down the number of days with unhealthy air - but on hot, windless days, a brown haze still hangs overhead, sending wheezing people with tight chests to emergency rooms and hundreds each year to an early grave. (AP Photo/Gary Kazanjian)
