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FILE – This April 12, 2005, file photo shows the Perry Nuclear Power Plant in North Perry, Ohio. Testimony submitted to Ohio lawmakers largely opposes a proposed special fee on FirstEnergy Corp.'s customers in the state, The Plain Dealer reported Thursday, June 8, 2017, though the Akron-based utility says the money is needed to secure the future of Ohio's two aging nuclear plants, the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station and the Perry Nuclear Power Plant. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan, File)
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FILE – In this April 12, 2005, file photo, operator Kevin Holko monitors the control room during a scheduled refueling shutdown at the Perry Nuclear Power Plant in North Perry, Ohio. Testimony submitted to Ohio lawmakers largely opposes a proposed special fee on FirstEnergy Corp.'s customers in the state, The Plain Dealer reported Thursday, June 8, 2017, though the Akron-based utility says the money is needed to secure the future of Ohio's two aging nuclear plants, the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station and the Perry Nuclear Power Plant. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan, File)
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FILE – In this Tuesday, April 4, 2017, file photo, plumes of steam drift from the cooling tower of FirstEnergy Corp.'s Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station in Oak Harbor, Ohio. Testimony submitted to Ohio lawmakers largely opposes a proposed special fee on FirstEnergy Corp.'s customers in the state, The Plain Dealer reported Thursday, June 8, 2017, though the Akron-based utility says the money is needed to secure the future of Ohio's two aging nuclear plants, the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station and the Perry Nuclear Power Plant. (AP Photo/Ron Schwane, File)
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FOR RELEASE SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 2017, AT 12:01 A.M. CDT.- A herd of goats has been brought in to eat non-native plants at Calhoun Park in Ames Monday, May 15, 2017. (Zach Boyden Holmes/The Des Moines Register via AP )
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FOR RELEASE SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 2017, AT 12:01 A.M. CDT.-A herd of goats has been brought in to eat non-native plants at Calhoun Park in Ames, Iowa, Monday, May 15, 2017. (Zach Boyden Holmes/The Des Moines Register via AP)
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FOR RELEASE SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 2017, AT 12:01 A.M. CDT.- A herd of goats has been brought in to eat non-native plants at Calhoun Park in Ames, Iowa, Monday, May 15, 2017. (Zach Boyden-Holmes /The Des Moines Register via AP )
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FOR RELEASE SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 2017, AT 12:01 A.M. CDT.-A herd of goats has been brought in to eat non-native plants at Calhoun Park in Ames Monday, May 15, 2017. (Zach Boyden-Holmes /The Des Moines Register via AP)
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This May 30, 2017 photo shows a Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep ewe nursing her 19-hour-old lamb atop an escarpment in the Cheyenne Buttes near Fort Robinson State Park, Neb. Eighteen times in recent weeks, a team of wildlife biologists dashed into the hills and canyons of northwest Nebraska in a race-the-clock campaign to capture newborn Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep to help the species survive an ongoing pneumonia scourge. (David Hendee/The World-Herald via AP)
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In this May 30, 2017 photo, Todd Nordeen, from left, Erin Wood and Dane Horowski search for Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep lambs in the Cheyenne Buttes near Fort Robinson State Park, Neb. Eighteen times in recent weeks, a team of wildlife biologists dashed into the hills and canyons of northwest Nebraska in a race-the-clock campaign to capture newborn Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep to help the species survive an ongoing pneumonia scourge (David Hendee/The World-Herald via AP)
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In this May 29, 2017 photo, a Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep ewe and her 16-hour-old lamb move around an escarpment in the Cheyenne Buttes near Fort Robinson State Park, Neb. Eighteen times in recent weeks, a team of wildlife biologists dashed into the hills and canyons of northwest Nebraska in a race-the-clock campaign to capture newborn Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep to help the species survive an ongoing pneumonia scourge. (David Hendee/The World-Herald via AP)
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A visitor walks around the installation (Polyethene tarpaulin and cotton thread) by Mata Aho Collective during the press preview of the documenta 14, the world's most significant exhibition of contemporary art, in Kassel, Germany, Friday, June 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
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In this May 17, 2017 photo, a gas pump sits out front of a gas station at Peddler'z Village in Columbia Falls, Mont. Mike Craner opened Peddler’z Village to the public five years ago. The village has a wide range of collectibles but is heavy on old gas pumps, signs and all things related to the old glory days of the automobile industry. (Aaric Bryan/Daily Inter Lake)/The Daily Inter Lake via AP)
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This photo provided by Teton County shows flooding that has closed Cattleman's Bridge on Spring Gulch Road over the Gros Ventre River north of Jackson, Wyo., seen Friday, June 9, 2017. Authorities said the current level and speed of the river has structurally compromised the structure, and it is currently unsafe for passage. High runoff has flooded many streams and rivers in central and western Wyoming. (Teton County via AP)
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Thiago Silva of Brazil, top, jumps above Gonzalo Higuaín of Argentina to head the ball during their friendly soccer international at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Australia, Friday, June 9, 2017. (Julian Smith/AAP Image via AP)
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In this Thursday, June 8, 2017 photo, the Dragoon fire is visible from just off Interstate 10, seen from Benson, Ariz. Up to 30 homes in Cochise County were being evacuated as a precaution Thursday night due to erratic wind behavior that is aiding a lightning-caused wildfire in the area, authorities said. County Sheriff's officials said the evacuation for the Cochise Stronghold area was due to a wildfire that has grown to about 200 acres. Another wildfire continues to burn near the small community of Dragoon and has charred about 5.4 square miles and burned one home. (AP Photo/Astríd Galván)
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In this Thursday, June 8, 2017 photo farm buildings are surrounded by flood waters from the Little Popo Agie River near the small town of Hudson in Fremont County, Wyo. Snowmelt from mountains in central western Wyoming has caused flooding along many streams and several large rivers. (Dan Bendtsen/The Ranger via AP)
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FILE - In this May 11, 2015, file photo, nuclear waste is stored in underground containers at the Idaho National Laboratory near Idaho Falls, Idaho. Federal officials are requesting a 20-year extension involving the storage at an Idaho facility of reactor core debris from the partial meltdown at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. The U.S. Department of Energy in a document made public on Friday, June 9, is asking the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to renew a license for the storage to 2039 at its square mile site in eastern Idaho that includes the Idaho National Laboratory. (AP Photo/Keith Ridler, File)
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Public transportation officials in Madrid have started a campaign against "manspreading." Signs will warn individuals to refrain from sitting in ways that extend into another customer's space. (Image: Madrid Municipal Transport Company)
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A helicopter flies with a water bucket to extinguish nearby fires in the coastal town of Knysna, South Africa, Friday June 9, 2017. Recent fires have resulted in fatalities, destroying homes and forcing the evacuation of up to 10,000 people in the past few days. (AP Photo/Halden Krog)
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A helicopter fills its water bucket to extinguish nearby fires in the coastal town of Knysna, South Africa, Friday June 9, 2017. Recent fires have resulted in fatalities, destroying homes and forcing the evacuation of up to 10,000 people in the past few days. (AP Photo/Halden Krog)
