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A broken wind turbine in Nextera Energy's Tuscola Bay Wind Farm sits idle in a farm field near the intersection of North Gera and Hack Roads in Blumfield Township in the northeast corner of Saginaw County on Tuesday, June 27, 2017. According to Nextera, the turbine broke Monday, June 26 and they are going to repair the damage. (Jeff Schrier/The Saginaw News via AP)
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A broken wind turbine, right, in Nextera Energy's Tuscola Bay Wind Farm sits idle in a farm field near the intersection of North Gera and Hack Roads in Blumfield Township in the northeast corner of Saginaw County on Tuesday, June 27, 2017. According to Nextera, the turbine broke Monday, June 26 and they are going to repair the damage. (Jeff Schrier/The Saginaw News via AP)
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A broken wind turbine, right, in Nextera Energy's Tuscola Bay Wind Farm sits idle in a farm field near the intersection of North Gera and Hack Roads in Blumfield Township in the northeast corner of Saginaw County on Tuesday, June 27, 2017. According to Nextera, the turbine broke Monday, June 26 and they are going to repair the damage. (Jeff Schrier/The Saginaw News via AP)
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A broken wind turbine, center, in Nextera Energy's Tuscola Bay Wind Farm sits idle in a farm field near the intersection of North Gera and Hack Roads in Blumfield Township in the northeast corner of Saginaw County on Tuesday, June 27, 2017. According to Nextera, the turbine broke Monday, June 26 and they are going to repair the damage. (Jeff Schrier/The Saginaw News via AP)
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A man looks on a pile of trash as he walks behind a flower pot in Kaminia neighborhood of Piraeus, near Athens Tuesday, June 27, 2017. Striking garbage collectors are on the 11-day of protest that left huge piles of trash around Athens. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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FILE- In this May 7, 2015 file photo, crews perform dredging work along the upper Hudson River in Waterford, N.Y. Dredging crews left the Hudson River two years ago, but criticism of the $1.7 billion cleanup is bubbling up again. Advocates who want the Environmental Protection Agency to order crews back on the river are expected in Poughkeepsie on Wednesday, June 28, 2017. The EPA is holding a public hearing on its five-year review of the Superfund project. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)
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Fire crews from more than 20 stations worked to contain and extinguish a fire at a mulch plant south of Mottville, Mich. on Tuesday, June 27, 2017. Officials say a fire at a mulch manufacturing facility in southwestern Michigan has been contained and could take a week to burn itself out. (Jake Green/Kalamazoo Gazette-MLive Media Group via AP)
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Fire crews from more than 20 stations worked to contain and extinguish a fire at a mulch plant south of Mottville, Mich. on Tuesday, June 27, 2017. Officials say a fire at a mulch manufacturing facility in southwestern Michigan has been contained and could take a week to burn itself out. (Jake Green/Kalamazoo Gazette-MLive Media Group via AP)
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In this Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017, photo, containers of Roundup, left, a weed killer is seen on a shelf with other products for sale at a hardware store in Los Angeles. California regulators are taking a pivotal step toward requiring the popular weed killer Roundup to come with a warning label. The state's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment announced Monday, June 26, 2017, that the weed killer's main ingredient, glyphosate, will be listed in July as a chemical known to cause cancer. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
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In this 1942 photo provided by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Office of History, soldiers work at a makeshift bench while working on the Alaska Highway, in the Northern Sector of Alaska. Nearly 4,000 segregated black soldiers helped build the highway across Alaska and Canada during World War II, a contribution largely ignored for decades but drawing attention as the 75th anniversary approaches. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Office of History via AP)
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In this 1942 photo provided by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Office of History, a soldier places dynamite during construction of the Alaska Highway in the Northern Sector of Alaska. Nearly 4,000 segregated black soldiers helped build the highway across Alaska and Canada during World War II, a contribution largely ignored for decades but drawing attention as the 75th anniversary approaches. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Office of History via AP)
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In this 1942 photo provided by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Office of History, soldiers try to free a bulldozer stuck in mud during construction of the Alaska Highway, in the Northern Sector of Alaska. Nearly 4,000 segregated black soldiers helped build the highway across Alaska and Canada during World War II, a contribution largely ignored for decades but drawing attention as the 75th anniversary approaches. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Office of History via AP)
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In this 1942 photo provided by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Office of History, an African-American soldier leans over to peer through surveyor's transit during construction of the Alaska Highway in the Northern Sector of Alaska. Nearly 4,000 segregated black soldiers helped build the highway across Alaska and Canada during World War II, a contribution largely ignored for decades but drawing attention as the 75th anniversary approaches. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Office of History via AP)
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Illustration on energy week by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times
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Illustration on draining the Washington swamp by Nancy Ohanian/Tribune Content Agency
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Left to right, Sandoval County Commission Chairman Don Chapman, Undersheriff Karl Wiese and Zia Pueblo Lt. Gov. Jerome Lucero point to the boundary of tribal land north of Rio Rancho, N.M., Monday, June 26, 2017. New Mexico land managers are partnering with Zia Pueblo to fence off more than 5 square miles of state trust land in hopes of curbing illegal dumping and shooting in the area. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)
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Shotgun shells and broken glass litter the ground in a remote area north of Rio Rancho, N.M., Monday, June 26, 2017. New Mexico land managers are partnering with Zia Pueblo to fence off the area in hopes of curbing illegal dumping and shooting on state trust land and adjacent tribal land. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)
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Shotgun shells and broken glass litter the ground in a remote area north of Rio Rancho, N.M., Monday, June 26, 2017. New Mexico land managers are partnering with Zia Pueblo to fence off the area in hopes of curbing illegal dumping and shooting on state trust land and adjacent tribal land. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)
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Broken glass, shotgun shells and clay targets litter the ground in a remote area north of Rio Rancho, N.M., Monday, June 26, 2017. New Mexico land managers are partnering with Zia Pueblo to fence off the area in hopes of curbing illegal dumping and shooting on state trust land and adjacent tribal land. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)
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Left to right, Sandoval County Commission Chairman Don Chapman, Undersheriff Karl Wiese and state Land Commissioner Aubrey Dunn review a map where a new fence is being erected near Rio Rancho, N.M., Monday, June 26, 2017. New Mexico land managers are partnering with Zia Pueblo to fence off the area in hopes of curbing illegal dumping and shooting on state trust land and adjacent tribal land. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)
