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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)
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In this May 20, 2017 photo, a handmade sign stands in front of the fire-damaged Mountain Laurel Chalets. 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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An American flag flies at half-staff in front of the Didion Ethanol Plant in the Village of Cambria, Wis., Friday, June 2, 2017. An explosion at the next-door Didion Milling Plant, background, on Wednesday night killed three employees and injured about a dozen others. (Michael P. King/Wisconsin State Journal via AP)
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California Gov. Jerry Brown, center, talks with reporters after delivering a speech during the Clean Energy Ministerial International Forum on Electric Vehicle Pilot Cities and Industrial Development, at a hotel in Beijing, Tuesday, June 6, 2017. Brown predicts that President Donald Trump's decision to pull the U.S. out of the Paris climate accord will prove temporary because of the urgency of the issue. He told The Associated Press on the sidelines of a clean energy conference in Beijing on Tuesday that China, Europe and U.S. state governors will for now fill the gap left by the federal government's move to abdicate leadership on the issue. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
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California Gov. Jerry Brown speaks during the Clean Energy Ministerial International Forum on Electric Vehicle Pilot Cities and Industrial Development at a hotel in Beijing, Tuesday, June 6, 2017. Brown predicts that President Donald Trump's decision to pull the U.S. out of the Paris climate accord will prove temporary because of the urgency of the issue. He told The Associated Press on the sidelines of a clean energy conference in Beijing on Tuesday that China, Europe and U.S. state governors will for now fill the gap left by the federal government's move to abdicate leadership on the issue. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
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California Gov. Jerry Brown attends the Clean Energy Ministerial International Forum on Electric Vehicle Pilot Cities and Industrial Development, at a hotel in Beijing, Tuesday, June 6, 2017. Brown predicts that President Donald Trump's decision to pull the U.S. out of the Paris climate accord will prove temporary because of the urgency of the issue. He told The Associated Press on the sidelines of a clean energy conference in Beijing on Tuesday that China, Europe and U.S. state governors will for now fill the gap left by the federal government's move to abdicate leadership on the issue. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
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This April 17, 2017, photo shows the construction of the new Park Road Bridge in Iowa City, Iowa. After routine flooding in recent years, the city has started a $40 million project to raise Dubuque Street and the bridge, which takes traffic over the Iowa River near the University of Iowa campus. (AP Photo/Ryan J. Foley)
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This April 6, 2017 photo shows Milwaukee's South Sixth Street Bridge over the Kinnickinnic River. The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District raised the bridge to prevent the waterway from backing up amid downpours. It's a technique cities nationwide are using as officials prepare for more intense rainstorms resulting from a warming climate. (AP Photo/Ivan Moreno)
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In this March 28, 2017, photo, the Red Bridge pedestrian bridge is seen over the Des Moines River in Des Moines, Iowa. A little more than a decade after it was restored, crews went back to the site with a crane to hoist the span more than 4 feet higher, at a cost of $3 million, after experts concluded that the river's flooding risk was double the previous estimates. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
