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FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2016, file photo, a truck carries a load at the Nucor Steel plant in Seattle. Even as the Trump administration seeks to roll back Obama-era rules to curb greenhouse gas emissions at coal-fired power plants, Washington state is forging ahead with its own rules to cap carbon pollution from big industrial facilities. But the state faces legal challenges as it begins requiring large polluters such as Nucor Steel. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)
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FILE - In this June 1, 2016, file photo, piles of wood chips sit near the RockTenn paper mill in Tacoma, Wash. Even as the Trump administration seeks to roll back Obama-era rules to curb greenhouse gas emissions at coal-fired power plants, Washington state is forging ahead with its own rules to cap carbon pollution from big industrial facilities. But the state faces legal challenges as it begins requiring large polluters such as RockTenn. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
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Demonstrators shout slogans during an anti-G7 rally near the venue of the G7 summit in the Sicilian town of Taormina, Italy, Saturday, May 27, 2017. A summit of the leaders of the world's wealthiest democracies has ended without a unanimous agreement on climate change, as the Trump administration plans to take more time to say whether the U.S. is going to remain in the Paris climate deal. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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FILE - This June 19, 2001 file photo shows pockets of melted snow and rain that formed small pools of water in an area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. President Donald Trump’s proposed budget calls for opening the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling. The refuge takes up an area the size of West Virginia and Connecticut combined in the northeast corner of Alaska. (AP Photo/Al Grillo, file)
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Sen. Lisa Murkowski's support is tied to a bill — which would be wrapped into the tax package — that would open 2,000 acres of ANWR to oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (Associated Press/File)
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FILE - This undated aerial file photo provided by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a herd of caribou on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northeast Alaska. President Donald Trump’s proposed budget calls for opening the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling. The refuge takes up an area the size of West Virginia and Connecticut combined in the northeast corner of Alaska. (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via AP, file)
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ADVANCE FOR RELEASE SATURDAY, MAY 27, 2017, AT 12:01 A.M. CDT. - In this April 17, 2017, Lloyd Williams plants seeds at The Homestead Farm in Pleasant Hill, Iowa. (Rodney White/The Des Moines Register via AP)
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This Wednesday, May 24, 2017, photo, shows Theodore Roosevelt National Park, in western North Dakota which is known for its hills, ridges, buttes and bluffs where millions of years of erosion have exposed colorful sedimentary rock layers. A company wants to build an oil refinery about 3 miles from the park, but some worry about air pollution in the park. (AP Photo/Blake Nicholson)
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In this Wednesday, May 24, 2017, photo, a smokestack from an Old West-era meatpacking plant is shown in Theodore Roosevelt National Park in western North Dakota. The park is known for hills, ridges, buttes and bluffs where millions of years of erosion have exposed colorful sedimentary rock layers. A company wants to build an oil refinery about 3 miles from the park, but some worry about air pollution in the park.(AP Photo/Blake Nicholson)
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In this Wednesday, May 24, 2017, photo, a bison munches grass in Theodore Roosevelt National Park in western North Dakota. A company wants to build an oil refinery about 3 miles from the park, but some worry about air pollution in the park. (AP Photo/Blake Nicholson)
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FILE - In this Dec. 12, 2015, file photo, French President Francois Hollande, right, French Foreign Minister and president of the COP21 Laurent Fabius, second right, United Nations climate chief Christiana Figueres, left, and United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon hold their hands up in celebration after the final conference at the COP21, the United Nations conference on climate change, in Le Bourget, north of Paris. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)
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In this photo taken May 23, 2017, President Donald Trump meets Pope Francis at the Vatican. Earth is likely to hit more dangerous levels of warming even sooner if the U.S. pulls back from its pledge to cut carbon dioxide pollution because America contributes so much to rising temperatures, scientists said. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool)
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FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2015 file photo, a plume of steam billows from the coal-fired Merrimack Station in Bow, N.H. Earth is likely to hit more dangerous levels of warming even sooner if the U.S. pulls back from its pledge to cut carbon dioxide pollution because America contributes so much to rising temperatures, scientists said. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)
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Charles Rice of Medford is selling off his 260,000-item record collection which includes thousands of brightly-colored albums he passionately collected over many decades. (Denise Baratta /The Medford Mail Tribune via AP)
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Sacajawea Principal Gordon Grissom and eighth-grader Claire Vlases, 14, worked together to raise over $115,000 so that solar panels can be installed on the roof of Sacajawea Middle School in Bozeman, Mont. The panels will go on top of the new electives wing being added to the school. (Rachel Leathe/Bozeman Daily Chronicle via AP)/Bozeman Daily Chronicle via AP)
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Sacajawea Principal Gordon Grissom and eighth-grader Claire Vlases, 14, worked together to raise over $115,000 so that solar panels can be installed on the roof of Sacajawea Middle School in Bozeman, Mont. The panels will go on top of the new electives wing being added to the school. (Rachel Leathe/Bozeman Daily Chronicle via AP)/Bozeman Daily Chronicle via AP)
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Milwaukee Brewers' Junior Guerra pitches to a Arizona Diamondbacks batter during the first inning of a baseball game Friday, May 26, 2017, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Tom Lynn)
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Arizona Diamondbacks' Zack Godley pitches to a Milwaukee Brewers batter during the first inning of a baseball game Friday, May 26, 2017, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Tom Lynn)
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Gov. Bill Walker speaks at the Alaska Native Heritage Center, where Army honorary discharge papers were awarded to relatives of members of the Alaska Territorial Guard, a largely Native citizen militia that served to protect the U.S. territory from the threat of Japanese invasion during World War II, in in Anchorage, Alaska, Friday, May 26, 2017. Relatives of 16 deceased members of the unit attended the ceremony at the Heritage Center to receive the posthumous honor. (AP Photo/Rachel D'Oro)
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Ben Mallott holds his late grandfather Jay Mallott's honorary discharge papers for his service in the Alaska Territorial Guard, a largely Native citizen militia that served to protect the U.S. territory from the threat of Japanese invasion during World War II, outside the Alaska Native Heritage Center in Anchorage, Alaska, Friday, May 26, 2017. Ben Mallott, the son of Alaska Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott, was among relatives of 16 deceased members of the unit who attended a ceremony at the Heritage Center to receive the documents. (AP Photo/Rachel D'Oro)
