Environment

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The last seven South Koreans stationed at a jointly run factory park in North Korea pulled out Friday, May 3, silencing the complex for the first time since it was launched nine years ago in a seemingly distant era of reconciliation. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead addresses reporters at a press conference on April 5, 2013, at the state Capitol in Cheyenne. (Associated Press)

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South Carolina Republican politics: Sen. Tim Scott, Gov. Nikki Haley and former senator Jim DeMint. (photo from South Carolina Republican Party)

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Traffic passes on U.S. 550 as smoke billows from a wildfire burning in the Sandia Mountains near Bernalillo, N.M., on Thursday, May 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)

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A helicopter drops water on a hotspot over a hill near Thousand Oaks, Calif. on Thursday, May 2, 2013. A wildfire fanned by gusty Santa Ana winds raged along the fringes of Southern California communities on Thursday, forcing evacuation of homes and a university while setting recreational vehicles ablaze. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

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A helicopter drops water on a hotspot over a hill near Thousand Oaks, Calif. on Thursday, May 2, 2013. A wildfire fanned by gusty Santa Ana winds raged along the fringes of Southern California communities on Thursday, forcing evacuation of homes and a university while setting recreational vehicles ablaze. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

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A helicopter drops water on a hotspot over a hill near Thousand Oaks, Calif. on Thursday, May 2, 2013. A wildfire fanned by gusty Santa Ana winds raged along the fringes of Southern California communities on Thursday, forcing evacuation of homes and a university while setting recreational vehicles ablaze. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

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A helicopter makes a water drop on flames as earth movers clear brush along a hillside in Thousand Oaks, Calif., Thursday, May 2, 2013. A Ventura County Fire Department spokeswoman said the wildfire that broke out Thursday morning near Camarillo and Thousand Oaks, 50 miles west of Los Angeles, had spread to over 6,500 acres — more than 10 square miles - forcing evacuations of nearby neighborhoods. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

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Flames and smoke rise from chemical storage tanks near a strawberry farm in Camarillo, Calif., Thursday, May 2, 2013. A wildfire fanned by gusty Santa Ana winds raged along the fringes of Southern California communities on Thursday, forcing evacuation of homes and a university while setting recreational vehicles ablaze. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

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Flames and smoke rise from chemical storage tanks near a strawberry farm in Camarillo, Calif., Thursday, May 2, 2013. A wildfire fanned by gusty Santa Ana winds raged along the fringes of Southern California communities on Thursday, forcing evacuation of homes and a university while setting recreational vehicles ablaze. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)