Environment

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This artist rendering shows the twin spacecraft Ebb and Flow orbiting the moon. The duo found evidence that the moon’s interior is more battered than previously thought and the crust is thinner than expected. Ebb and Flow crashed into the moon’s surface Monday, ending their mission. (NASA via Associated Press)

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Libertarian Party Vice Chairman R. Lee Wrights said “killing zones” have been created in the wake of the establishment of gun-free school zones. (Libertarian Party)

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Washington hung tough against Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers in a 102-96 loss Friday at Verizon Center. The next night, the Wizards suffered their worst loss of the season, 102-72 against the Miami Heat to drop to 3-18. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** In this July 18, 2012, file photo, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack talks about the drought during a press briefing at the White House in Washington. The fear that federal crop insurance subsidies are becoming fertile ground for big spending cuts in negotiations over the so-called fiscal cliff has rural lawmakers and their leaders shopping for a compromise on a farm bill to protect them. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

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**FILE** Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson gestures during an interview April 17, 2012, with The Associated Press at the agency's Washington headquarters. (Associated Press)

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Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, right, talks with officials at a staging area following a shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., about 60 miles (96 kilometers) northeast of New York City, Friday, Dec. 14, 2012. An official with knowledge of Friday's shooting said 27 people were dead, including 18 children. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

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Herman Nackaerts, deputy director general and head of the Department of Safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), waves as he arrives from Iran at Schwechat Airport in Vienna, Austria, on Dec. 14, 2012. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** A Greenlandic Inuit hunter and fisherman steers his boat past a melting iceberg, along a fjord leading away from the edge of the Greenland ice sheet, near Nuuk, Greenland, on July 26, 2011. (Associated Press)

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North Koreans dance near a slogan which reads “(we) fervently celebrate the successful launch of the second version of the Kwangmyongsong-3 satellite" during a mass rally organized to celebrate the success of a rocket launch that sent a satellite into space, on Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Dec. 14, 2012. As the U.S. led international condemnation of what it calls a covert test of missile technology, top North Korean officials denied the allegations and maintained the country's right to develop its space program. (Associated Press)

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More than 1,000 protesters were involved in a march on the New York State Capitol in Albany in August demanding that Gov. Andrew Cuomo ban fracking in the state. While the governor still hasn’t ruled, the state attorney general and six other East Coast states are suing for harsher air-quality rules on the oil and gas industry and its most effective drilling method. (Associated Press)