Environment

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Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb announces a list of infrastructure projects that will get funding in next five years under Indiana's Next Level Roads initiative, a 20-year program to improve Indiana's roads and bridges, during a press conference in Indianapolis, Thursday, July 13, 2017. Joining the for the announcement are Indiana Department of Transportation Commissioner Joe McGuinness, left, and Speaker of the House Brian Bosma. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

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In this photo provided by the Santa Barbara County Fire Department, a Skycrane makes a water drop on hot spots near Hot Spring Canyon and Highway 154 in the Whittier fire area near Santa Barbara, Calif., Wednesday, July 12, 2017. In Southern California, thousands of people remained out of their homes as a pair of fires raged at different ends of Santa Barbara County. The fires broke out amid a blistering weekend heat wave that toppled temperature records. (Mike Eliason/Santa Barbara County Fire Department via AP)

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Indian tourists take a boat ride in the river Ganges in Allahabad, India, Thursday, July 13, 2017. India's main environmental agency has banned the dumping of any kind of waste within 500 meters (yards) of the most polluted parts of the Ganges, a river considered sacred by devout Hindus. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

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An Indian man jumps over the polythene bags and garbage littered on the banks of the river Ganges in Allahabad, India, Thursday, July 13, 2017. India's main environmental agency has banned the dumping of any kind of waste within 500 meters (yards) of the most polluted parts of the Ganges, a river considered sacred by devout Hindus. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

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FILE - In this May 31, 2017 file photo, California Gov. Jerry Brown speaks during an interview in Sacramento, Calif. Brown announced yet another plan Wednesday, July 12, 2017, to keep the United States on track to reduce greenhouse gas emissions under the international Paris climate agreement. This time, he's teaming up with former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to launch "America's Pledge," an initiative to compile all of the climate change-fighting commitments of states, cities, businesses and universities in one place where they can be easily tracked and shared. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

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In this July 1, 2017, photo, plants are on display during the first day of recreational marijuana sales at The Source dispensary in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

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FILE - This Sept. 27, 2011, file photo shows a gopher frog at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans. The nonprofit Pacific Legal Foundation wants the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a declaration that Louisiana timberland is critical habitat for an endangered frog found only in Mississippi. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says a network of ponds so shallow they dry up in the summer makes the 1,500-acre tract the only potential breeding ground outside Mississippi for dusky gopher frogs. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

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California Gov. Jerry Brown is racing to convince lawmakers to extend the state's cap-and-trade program which puts a price on carbon emitted by polluters, including oil refineries like the Valero Benicia Refinery seen Wednesday, July 12, 2017, in Benicia, Calif. The program has been closely watched around the world as a market-based way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but it expires in 2020. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

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A truck drives into the Valero Benicia Refinery, Wednesday, July 12, 2017, in Benicia, Calif. California Gov. Jerry Brown is racing to convince lawmakers to extend the state's cap-and-trade program which puts a price on carbon emitted by polluters, including oil refineries. The program has been closely watched around the world as a market-based way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but it expires in 2020. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

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The stacks from the Valero Benicia Refinery are seen as a pedestrian walks in a nearby neighborhood, Wednesday, July 12, 2017, in Benicia, Calif. California Gov. Jerry Brown is racing to convince state lawmakers to extend California's cap-and-trade program which puts a price on carbon emitted by polluters, including oil refineries. The program has been closely watched around the world as a market-based way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but it expires in 2020. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

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Gov. Jerry Brown is racing to convince state lawmakers to extend California's cap-and-trade program which puts a price on carbon emitted by polluters, including oil refineries like the Valero Benicia Refinery seen Wednesday, July 12, 2017, in Benicia, Calif. The program has been closely watched around the world as a market-based way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but it expires in 2020. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

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Jay Miller of the Madison Forestry Department used a chainsaw on a damaged ash tree after a lightning strike destroyed it early Wednesday July 12, 2017, in Madison, Wis. Heavy thunderstorms are flooding roads and low-lying areas in southern Wisconsin. (Barry Adams/Wisconsin State Journal via AP)

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The U.S. Missile Defense Agency revealed Tuesday that a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, system based in Alaska, like the one shown here in South Korea, successfully tracked and shot down a simulated intermediate-range ballistic missile that closely resembles the ones North Korea is developing. (Associated Press/File)

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Smoke rises from wild fires burning on the slopes of Mt. Vesuvius volcano as the Castel dell'Ovo castle in seen in the foreground, in Naples, Italy, Wednesday, July 12, 2017. Firefighters are battling wildfires throughout southern Italy, including along the slopes of the volcano Mount Vesuvius near Naples. Wildfires have been raging for days, and Italy's civil protection agency on Tuesday said it was responding with helicopters to 18 blazes, including four in Campania, the region which includes Naples, and two each in Sicily and Basilicata. (Ciro Fusco/ANSA via AP)

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Smoke rises from wild fires burning on the slopes of Mt. Vesuvius volcano as the Castel dell'Ovo castle in seen in the foreground, in Naples, Italy, Wednesday, July 12, 2017. Firefighters are battling wildfires throughout southern Italy, including along the slopes of the volcano Mount Vesuvius near Naples. Wildfires have been raging for days, and Italy's civil protection agency on Tuesday said it was responding with helicopters to 18 blazes, including four in Campania, the region which includes Naples, and two each in Sicily and Basilicata. (Ciro Fusco/ANSA via AP)

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Woodland fires burn near a tourist resort where, according to firefighter reports, some several hundred tourists have been evacuated by land and sea, in the Sicilian town of San Vito lo Capo, southern Italy, Wednesday, July 12, 2017. Wildfires have been raging for days and Italian firefighters said Wednesday they were responding to 887 fires throughout Italy, 628 of which regarded vegetation and woodlands. (Italian Firefighters Vigili del Fuoco via AP)

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Smoke rises from wild fires burning on the slopes of Mt. Vesuvius volcano as the Castel dell'Ovo castle in seen in the foreground, in Naples, Italy, Wednesday, July 12, 2017. Firefighters are battling wildfires throughout southern Italy, including along the slopes of the volcano Mount Vesuvius near Naples. Wildfires have been raging for days, and Italy's civil protection agency on Tuesday said it was responding with helicopters to 18 blazes, including four in Campania, the region which includes Naples, and two each in Sicily and Basilicata. (Ciro Fusco/ANSA via AP)