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A car is washed over by a huge wave that slammed into the promenade during heavy storms in the Sea Point neighborhood of Cape Town, South Africa, on Wednesday, June 7, 2017. South African media are reporting that several people have been killed in a storm that swept into the area around Cape Town. The region has been suffering a severe drought. News24 says four people were killed in a fire caused by lightning and another person died when a house collapsed. (AP Photo/Halden Krog)
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FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2014, file photo, rail cars are filled with coal and sprayed with a topper agent to suppress dust at Cloud Peak Energy's Antelope Mine north of Douglas, Wyo. President Donald Trump says withdrawing from a global climate change agreement will boost the U.S. economy but existing market forces have had far more of an effect on the fossil fuel industries than climate regulations. For at least three years now, the coal industry has been reeling from growing competition from natural gas, wind and solar power. (Ryan Dorgan/The Casper Star-Tribune via AP, File)
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FILE - In this April 4, 2013, file photo, a dragline excavator moves rocks above a coal seam at the Spring Creek Mine in Decker, Mont. President Donald Trump says withdrawing from a global climate change agreement will boost the U.S. economy but existing market forces have had far more of an effect on the fossil fuel industries than climate regulations. For at least three years now, the coal industry has been reeling from growing competition from natural gas, wind and solar power. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)
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FILE - In this July 1, 2013, file photo, smoke rises from the Colstrip Steam Electric Station, a coal burning power plant in Colstrip, Mont. President Donald Trump says withdrawing from a global climate change agreement will boost the U.S. economy but existing market forces have had far more of an effect on the fossil fuel industries than climate regulations. For at least three years now, the coal industry has been reeling from growing competition from natural gas, wind and solar power. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)
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This May 16, 2017, photo shows a pair of new design boat shoe/sandal hybrid that Shane Pisko, founder of Cape Dory Rigging shoes, has created, as seen in Runnemede, N.J. (Jose F. Moreno/Camden Courier-Post via AP)
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In this May 16, 2017, photo, Shane Pisko, founder of Cape Dory Rigging shoes, shows his new design boat shoe/sandal hybrid he has created, as he poses for a photo in Runnemede, N.J. (Jose F. Moreno/Camden Courier-Post via AP)
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In this Tuesday, June 7, 2017 photo, Masato Kato, senior principal scientist in Fast Reactor Fuel Technology Development Department of Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), bows during a press conference in Mito, north of Tokyo. The JAEA said five workers at a nuclear facility that handles plutonium have been exposed to high levels of radiation after a bag containing highly radioactive material broke during equipment inspection. The state-run agency said the incident occurred Tuesday at its Oarai Research & Development Center, a facility for nuclear fuel study that uses highly toxic plutonium. (Kyodo News via AP)
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Southern Maryland Blue Crabs pitcher Daryl Thompson, a native of La Plata, Maryland, pitches against the Long Island Ducks on April 23, 2017. (Photo by Bert Hindman/Memories Photography)
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Alaska state Revenue Commissioner Randall Hoffbeck, left, addresses reporters during a news conference on Tuesday, June 6, 2017, in Juneau, Alaska, as Gov. Bill Walker looks on. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer)
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Alaska Gov. Bill Walker holds a news conference on Tuesday, June 6, 2017, in Juneau, Alaska, to discuss a compromise budget and fiscal plan he had offered after legislative talks stalled. Walker urged legislators to compromise. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer)
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FILE - In this May 24, 2017 file photo, California Gov. Jerry Brown speaks during the joint Netherlands and California Environmental Protection Agency conference called, "Climate is Big Business," at the Presidio in San Francisco. Vowing to keep the United States on track to meet its emissions-cutting target even without the U.S. government's support, more than a dozen governors representing nearly 40 percent of the U.S. economy by Tuesday, June 6 had pledged themselves to stay in the climate-change fight despite the Trump administration's withdrawal from the Paris climate accords last week. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
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FILE - In this Dec. 13, 2016 file photo, scientists hold signs during a rally in conjunction with the American Geophysical Union's fall meeting in San Francisco. The rally was to call attention to what scientist believe is unwarranted attacks by the incoming Trump administration against scientists advocating for the issue of climate change and its impact. Vowing to keep the United States on track to meet its emissions-cutting target even without the U.S. government's support, more than a dozen governors representing nearly 40 percent of the U.S. economy by Tuesday, June 6, 2017, had pledged themselves to stay in the climate-change fight despite the Trump administration's withdrawal from the Paris climate accords last week. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)
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FILE - In this Jan. 26, 2017 file photo, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown speaks to media representatives in Salem, Ore. Vowing to keep the United States on track to meet its emissions-cutting target even without the U.S. government's support, more than a dozen governors, including Brown, representing nearly 40 percent of the U.S. economy by Tuesday, June 6, 2017, had pledged themselves to stay in the climate-change fight despite the Trump administration's withdrawal from the Paris climate accords last week. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, File)
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FILE - In this March 9, 2010, file photo, a tanker truck passes an oil refinery in Richmond, Calif. Vowing to keep the United States on track to meet its emissions-cutting target even without the U.S. government's support, more than a dozen governors representing nearly 40 percent of the U.S. economy by Tuesday, June 6, 2017, had pledged themselves to stay in the climate-change fight despite the Trump administration's withdrawal from the Paris climate accords last week. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)
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FILE - This April 24, 2016 file photo on the Kahiltna Glacier in Alaska, shows Army soldiers unloading a Chinook helicopter that landed on the glacier near Denali under the rotor blade of another Chinook. Rangers rescued two climbers in unrelated incidents from Kahiltna Glacier in Denali National Park on Monday, June 5, 2017. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen, File)
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FILE - This April 24, 2016, file photo taken above the Kahiltna Glacier near Denali, shows peaks in the Alaska Range, as seen through the open cargo bay doors of a Chinook helicopter. Rangers rescued two climbers in unrelated incidents from Kahiltna Glacier in Denali National Park on Monday, June 5, 2017. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen, File)
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In this May 2017 photo provided by the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department, fisheries staff release a 48-year old male sturgeon back into the Lamoille River in Milton, Vt., after it was captured in the tributary of Lake Champlain then weighed, measured and examined. Biologists first studied and tagged the sturgeon in 1998. It was recaptured several times between 1998 and 2002, and this year it was implanted an acoustic tag so its movements can be followed. (Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department via AP)
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In this May 2017 photo provided by the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department, fisheries staff measure and weigh a 48-year old male sturgeon before releasing it back into the Lamoille River in Milton, Vt., after it was captured in the tributary of Lake Champlain. Biologists first studied and tagged the sturgeon in 1998. It was recaptured several times between 1998 and 2002, and this year it was implanted an acoustic tag so its movements can be followed. (Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department via AP)
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In this May 20, 2017 photo, fencing surrounds areas of the Laurel Point Resort in Gatlinburg, Tenn., that were damaged in a wildfire in 2016. A deadly wildfire in November of 2016 put a dent in the tourism industry, but signs of growth are returning. (AP Photo/Kristin Hall)
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In this May 20, 2017 photo, a fire-damaged building overlooks cars driving through downtown Gatlinburg, Tennessee. A deadly wildfire in November of 2016 put a dent in the tourism industry, but signs of growth are returning. (AP Photo/Kristin Hall)
