Environment

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In this June 28, 2017 photo, Ben Bryant poses for a photo near Shepherd, Mich. He said he has lost some of the soybean plants growing in his fields due to flooding from last week's torrential rains. (Dale G. Young/Detroit News via AP)

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In this June 28, 2017 photo, Ben Bryant poses for a photo near Shepherd, Mich. He said he has lost some of the soybean plants growing in his fields due to flooding from last week's torrential rains. (Dale G. Young/Detroit News via AP)

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Three young men walk on a wall in front of bins overflowing with garbage at the Faliron coastal zone near Athens, Wednesday, June 28, 2017. Greece's municipal garbage collectors are on 13-day protest that has left mounds of festering refuse piled up across Athens amid high summer temperatures. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

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A woman rides a bike in front of a pile of garbage in Athens, on Thursday, June 29, 2017. A strike by garbage collectors, which has lasted nearly two weeks, has left towering mounds of garbage on city streets at a time when the summer's first heatwave sent temperatures soaring. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)

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A woman walks next a pile of trash as a sign on the wall reads in Greek "No garbage" in the Kaminia neighborhood of Piraeus, near Athens, Thursday June 29, 2017. Greece's municipal garbage collectors are on a 14-day protest that has left mounds of festering refuse piled up across Athens amid high summer temperatures.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

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Protesters chant slogans during a rally outside the parliament in Athens, on Thursday, June 29, 2017. About 1,000 garbage collectors marched through central Athens demanding an end to short-term labor contracts, as their strike, which has lasted nearly two weeks, has left towering mounds of garbage on city streets at a time when the summer's first heatwave sent temperatures soaring. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)

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A worker sprays a huge pile of garbage with disinfectant in Kaminia neighborhood of Piraeus, near Athens, Thursday, June 29, 2017. Greece's municipal garbage collectors are on 14-day protest that has left mounds of festering refuse piled up across Athens amid high summer temperatures.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

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A woman throws a garbage bag onto a pile of garbage in Athens, on Thursday, June 29, 2017. A strike by garbage collectors, which has lasted nearly two weeks, has left towering mounds of garbage on city streets at a time when the summer's first heatwave sent temperatures soaring. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)

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A woman carries shopping bags as she makes her way through a pile of garbage in Athens, on Thursday, June 29, 2017. A strike by garbage collectors, which has lasted nearly two weeks, has left towering mounds of garbage on city streets at a time when the summer's first heatwave sent temperatures soaring. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)

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A man holds an ice cream as he makes his way past a pile of garbage in Athens, on Thursday, June 29, 2017. A strike by garbage collectors, which has lasted nearly two weeks, has left towering mounds of garbage on city streets at a time when the summer's first heatwave sent temperatures soaring. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)

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Camp crews pull a line up a hill while a slow moving grass and brush fire threatens homes in Burbank, Calif., Wednesday, June 28, 2017. Dozens of homes were under mandatory evacuation orders on the suburban edges of Burbank, where flames raced uphill through tinder-dry grass. (John McCoy/Los Angeles Daily News via AP)

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A helicopter makes a water drop next to a home in Burbank, Calif., Wednesday, June 28, 2017. Dozens of homes were under mandatory evacuation orders on the suburban edges of Burbank, where flames raced uphill through tinder-dry grass. (John McCoy/Los Angeles Daily News via AP)

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In this 2014 photo provided by the Center for Conservation Biology, orca scat floats on the Salish Sea in Washington State. A new study to be published Thursday, June 29, 2017, says that the small population of endangered Puget Sound orcas are having pregnancy problems due to stress from not getting enough salmon to eat. (Center for Conservation Biology/via AP)

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Emergency personnel respond to new Richmond Hall on the Murray State University campus after an explosion occurred, Wednesday, June 28, 2017. Officials say a blast at an unused Kentucky dormitory has caused extensive damage, with one employee hospitalized with injuries. Calloway County Emergency Management Director Bill Call told media outlets that the explosion at Murray State University was believed to have been caused by a natural gas leak. (Edward Marlowe/The Paducah Sun via AP)