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FILE - This Friday Sept. 22, 2006, file photo, shows an oil refinery at sunset in Rodeo, Calif. California's cap-and-trade law, which puts a cap and a price on carbon emissions, expires in 2020, but Gov. Jerry Brown say he's still hopeful it will be extended, after he failed to convince lawmakers to extend it in tandem with the just-passed state budget. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
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FILE -- In this Aug. 4, 2013, file photo, an oil field pump jack operates near Lost Hills, Calif. California's cap-and-trade law, which puts a cap and a price on carbon emissions, expires in 2020. Gov. Jerry Brown say he's still hopeful it will be extended, after he failed to convince lawmakers to extend it in tandem with the just-passed state budget. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
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In this Thursday, June 15, 2017 photo, Christine Gall waters a vegetable and flower garden at the Burlington High School in Burlington, Vt. The school is part of the Wild for Pollinators initiative, which urges Vermont schools, businesses and individuals to plant flowers or leave areas unmowed to create habitats for bees and other pollinators that have rapidly declined. (AP Photo/Lisa Rathke)
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In this Thursday, June 15, 2017 photo, Christine Gall, manager of production gardens at several Burlington, Vt., schools looks at a bee on a flowering sage plant at the Hunt Middle School. The school is part of the Wild for Pollinators initiative, which urges Vermont schools, businesses and individuals to plant flowers or leave areas unmowed to create habitats for bees and other pollinators that have rapidly declined. (AP Photo/Lisa Rathke)
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In this Saturday, June 17, 2017, photo, the container ship ACX Crystal with its left bow dented and scraped after colliding with the USS Fitzgerald in the waters off the Izu Peninsula earlier in the day, is berthed at the Oi Container Terminal in Tokyo. The search for seven U.S. Navy sailors missing after their destroyer collided with the container ship called off Sunday after several bodies were found in the ship's flooded compartments, including sleeping quarters. All of the ACX Crystal's 20-member Filipino crew were safe, said Japanese shipping company Nippon Yusen K.K., which operates the Philippine-flagged ship. (Hitoshi Takano/Kyodo News via AP)
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In this Saturday, June 17, 2017, photo, the container ship ACX Crystal with its left bow dented and scraped after colliding with the USS Fitzgerald in the waters off the Izu Peninsula earlier in the day, is berthed at the Oi Container Terminal in Tokyo. The search for seven U.S. Navy sailors missing after their destroyer collided with the container ship called off Sunday after several bodies were found in the ship's flooded compartments, including sleeping quarters. All of the ACX Crystal's 20-member Filipino crew were safe, said Japanese shipping company Nippon Yusen K.K., which operates the Philippine-flagged ship. (Hitoshi Takano/Kyodo News via AP)
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In this Friday, June 16, 2017 photo, Casey, a cat with feline immunodeficiency virus, pauses during a snack at the New Hampshire Humane Society shelter in Laconia, N.H. Current law prohibits shelters in the state from transferring pets with contagious illnesses, including cats with FIV, but a provision in the proposed state budget seeks to allow such adoptions. (AP Photo/Holly Ramer)
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In this Saturday, June 17, 2017, photo, the container ship ACX Crystal goes through the Tokyo Bay after colliding with the USS Fitzgerald in the waters off the Izu Peninsula early in the day. The search for seven U.S. Navy sailors missing after their destroyer collided with the container ship called off Sunday after several bodies were found in the ship's flooded compartments, including sleeping quarters. All of the ACX Crystal's 20-member Filipino crew were safe, said Japanese shipping company Nippon Yusen K.K., which operates the Philippine-flagged ship. (Shunpei Ishii/Kyodo News via AP)
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FILE - In this June 24, 2016 file photo, road signs signaling to US 119 along Frame Road in Elkview, W.Va., are surrounded by flood waters. A year after the floods, the owner of the Crossings Mall in Elkview is replacing a washed-out bridge that made the mall inaccessible and forced hundreds to be laid off or displaced, although two anchor stores are returning. A Kroger plans to reopen in August 2017, and Kmart has said it will reopen once the bridge is rebuilt. (Sam Owens/Charleston Gazette-Mail via AP)
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FILE - In this June 24, 2016 file photo, Jimmy Scott gets a hug from Anna May Watson, left, as they clean up from severe flooding in White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. Next Friday, June 23, 2017, on the one-year anniversary of the floods, a memorial wall, museum and series of parks linked by sidewalks will be dedicated in White Sulphur Springs to honor local victims and the community. The floods killed 23 people statewide, including 15 people in Greenbrier County. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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FILE - In this Saturday, June 25, 2016 file photo, Lt. Dennis Feazell, of the West Virginia Department of Natural Resources, watches for debris as he and a co-worker search flooded homes in Rainelle, W. Va. The town of Rainelle, population 1,500, lost five residents and dozens of homes in the June 23, 2016 floods. The Christian ministry Appalachia Service Project is building at least 50 homes and fixing others, while another group is removing sediment from Rainelle’s flood-control channels. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)
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Vice Adm. Joseph Aucoin, commander of the U.S. 7th Fleet, speaks during a press conference on the status of the damaged USS Fitzgerald and search and rescue efforts for seven missing Fitzgerald sailors at the U.S. Naval base in Yokosuka, southwest of Tokyo Sunday, June 18, 2017. The U.S. destroyer collided with a container ship in the busy sea off Japan Saturday. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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Vice Adm. Joseph Aucoin, commander of the U.S. 7th Fleet, speaks during a press conference on the status of the damaged USS Fitzgerald, seen behind, and search and rescue efforts for seven missing Fitzgerald sailors at the U.S. Naval base in Yokosuka, southwest of Tokyo Sunday, June 18, 2017. The U.S. destroyer collided with a container ship in the busy sea off Japan Saturday. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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The damaged USS Fitzgerald is seen near the U.S. Naval base in Yokosuka, southwest of Tokyo, after the U.S. destroyer collided with the Philippine-registered container ship ACX Crystal in the waters off the Izu Peninsula Saturday, June 17, 2017. The USS Fitzgerald was back at its home port in Japan after colliding before dawn Saturday with a container ship four times its size, while the coast guard and Japanese and U.S. military searched for seven sailors missing after the crash. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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A Japan Coast Guard ship, foreground, navigates the damaged USS Fitzgerald near the U.S. Naval base in Yokosuka, southwest of Tokyo, after the U.S. destroyer collided with the Philippine-registered container ship ACX Crystal in the waters off the Izu Peninsula Saturday, June 17, 2017. The USS Fitzgerald was back at its home port in Japan after colliding before dawn Saturday with a container ship four times its size, while the coast guard and Japanese and U.S. military searched for seven sailors missing after the crash. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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In this Saturday, Junes 17, 2017, photo, the damaged USS Fitzgerald is seen off Yokosuka, near Tokyo, Japan, after the Navy destroyer collided with a merchant ship. The U.S. Navy says the bodies of sailors who went missing in the collision between the USS Fitzgerald and a container ship have been found aboard the stricken destroyer. (Hitoshi Takano/Kyodo News via AP, File)
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Northern Rain business owner Bert Martin poses outside his new mobile shower truck in Fairbanks, Alaska on Tuesday June 6, 2017. When firefighting season starts, Martin leaves his roofing job and picks up one of his mobile shower trailers outside his Badger Road-area home and spends his summers driving the trailers to remote firefighting camps. (Sam Friedman/Fairbanks Daily News-Miner via AP)
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The damaged USS Fitzgerald is seen near the U.S. Naval base in Yokosuka, southwest of Tokyo, after the U.S. destroyer collided with the Philippine-registered container ship ACX Crystal in the waters off the Izu Peninsula Saturday, June 17, 2017. The USS Fitzgerald was back at its home port in Japan after colliding before dawn Saturday with a container ship four times its size, while the coast guard and Japanese and U.S. military searched for seven sailors missing after the crash. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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The damaged USS Fitzgerald is being towed by a tugboat in the waters near the U.S. Naval base in Yokosuka, southwest of Tokyo, after the U.S. destroyer collided with the Philippine-registered container ship ACX Crystal in the waters off the Izu Peninsula Saturday, June 17, 2017. The USS Fitzgerald was back at its home port in Japan after colliding before dawn Saturday with the container ship four times its size, while the coast guard and Japanese and U.S. military searched for seven sailors missing after the crash. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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The damaged USS Fitzgerald is seen near the U.S. Naval base in Yokosuka, southwest of Tokyo, after the U.S. destroyer collided with the Philippine-registered container ship ACX Crystal in the waters off the Izu Peninsula Saturday, June 17, 2017. The USS Fitzgerald was back at its home port in Japan after colliding before dawn Saturday with the container ship four times its size, while the coast guard and Japanese and U.S. military searched for seven sailors missing after the crash. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
