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FILE- In this Jan. 4, 2017, file photo, traffic crosses the Virginia Street bridge in downtown Reno, Nev., above the rising waters of the Truckee River, where a flash flood watch was in effect. The bridge built last year replaced a century-old one where logjams were blamed for intensifying flooding that caused hundreds of millions of dollars of damage in January 1997. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner, File)
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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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In this April 18, 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)
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California Gov. Jerry Brown waves to photographers as he arrives for the Clean Energy Ministerial International Forum on Electric Vehicle Pilot Cities and Industrial Development, at a hotel in Beijing, Tuesday, June 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
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California Gov. Jerry Brown, left, chats with China's Science and Technology Minister Wan Gang as they attend the Clean Energy Ministerial International Forum on Electric Vehicle Pilot Cities and Industrial Development, at a hotel in Beijing, Tuesday, June 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
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Illustration on America's continued advances in renewable energy by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times
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In this June 1, 2017 photo Greenpeace activists demonstrate in front of the freighter "SBI'Subaru" holding a banner with the inscription "Planet Earth First"' in Hamburg, Germany. The activists had previously followed the freighter on inflatable rafts and wrote the inscriptions "No Coal" and "No Trump" on the freighter's hull. (Bodo Marks/dpa via AP)
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President Donald Trump gestures while speaking about the U.S. role in the Paris climate change accord, Thursday, June 1, 2017, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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President Donald Trump walks to the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday, June 1, 2017, after speaking in the Rose Garden about the US role in the Paris climate change accord. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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In this Thursday, June 1, 2017 photo, Gov. Gary Herbert, center, is joined by other state representatives and crime lab officials as they cut the ribbon on the new Unified State Laboratory, that includes the Utah State Medical Examiner's Office and the Department of Agriculture and Food, in Taylorsville, Utah. (Francisco Kjolseth/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)
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Hundreds of students at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, protested against the college administration and demanded change after weeks of brewing racial tension on campus. (Associated Press)
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(Image: Screen grab from https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/president-trump-announces-air-traffic-control-reform-initiative)
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A Syrian boy sits inside his tent in the Kawergosk refugee camp in northern Iraq, Saturday, April 8, 2017. For the millions of Syrian refugees scattered across camps and illegal settlements across the region, the chemical attack on a town in northern Syria and subsequent U.S. strike was a rare moment when the world briefly turned its attention to Syria, before turning away again. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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China Pollution Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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Illustration on Saudi government efforts to change media and social extremism by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times
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In this May 31, 2017 photo, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Bob Martin speaks at a ceremony marking the start of a beach replenishment and dune construction project in the Ortley Beach section of Toms River, N.J., which was one of the Jersey shore towns hit hardest by Superstorm Sandy. Nearly five years after the storm, New Jersey is closing in on its goal of having protective dunes along its coast, but pockets of resistance remain among residents fighting the dune plan in court. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
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FILE - In this Nov. 4, 2015, file photo, contractors work on the East Side Access project beneath midtown Manhattan, in New York. The agency that runs the Long Island Rail Road, the busiest commuter railroad in the U.S., has spent more than a decade carving out tunnels and a massive subterranean cavern that will bring suburban trains beneath the East River to Grand Central in Manhattan. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
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In this photo provided by NASA, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the Dragon spacecraft onboard, launches from pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla, Saturday, June 3, 2017. SpaceX launched its first recycled cargo ship to the International Space Station on Saturday, yet another milestone in its bid to drive down flight costs. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)
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In this photo provided by NASA, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the Dragon spacecraft onboard, launches from pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla, Saturday, June 3, 2017. SpaceX launched its first recycled cargo ship to the International Space Station on Saturday, yet another milestone in its bid to drive down flight costs. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)
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In this photo provided by NASA, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the Dragon spacecraft onboard, launches from pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla, Saturday, June 3, 2017. SpaceX launched its first recycled cargo ship to the International Space Station on Saturday, yet another milestone in its bid to drive down flight costs. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)
