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Firefighters work the site of the damage after a tornado ripped through Prairie Lake Estates trailer home park, just north of Chetek, Wis., Tuesday, May 16, 2017. The tornado swept into the mobile home park in western Wisconsin on Tuesday, as a storm system also pounded parts of at least seven states from Texas to near the Canadian border with heavy rain, high winds and hail. (Dan Reiland/The Eau Claire Leader-Telegram via AP)
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Illustration on cutting loose from the Paris climate agreement by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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“Back at the dentist and I'm hearing a bunch of drilling going on behind me from my docs so I had to sit up like "What the heck is going on back there". Hahaha but seriously what's up. #DentistNightMares”
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FILE - In this July 22, 2011 file photo, a man stands on a tent's roof at a refugee camp, once a golf course, set up for people displaced by the 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The number of Haitians displaced by the earthquake has dropped since February, according to the International Organization for Migration. They say the drop marks the steepest decline in the camp population since early last year. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)
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FILE - In this Oct. 29, 2009, file photo, a defunct brine well operation once owned by I&W Trucking in Carlsbad, N.M., is fenced off because state officials fear a cavern that has formed under the site as a result of nearly 30 years of brine production is at risk of collapsing. Almost half of Carlsbad school bus routes travel over the well, on a busy road that borders a giant, underground cavern that resulted from years of manufacturing brine for the oil and gas industry. It's been nearly nine years since state officials first sounded the alarm about a potential collapse, but experts said could happen at any time. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File)
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FILE - In this Oct. 29, 2009, file photo, traffic heads south on US 285 in Carlsbad, N.M. The New Mexico Transportation Department installed signs along the highway warning drivers of a potential sinkhole at a brine well operation along the roadway. Almost half of Carlsbad school bus routes travel over the well, on a busy road that borders a giant, underground cavern that resulted from years of manufacturing brine for the oil and gas industry. It's been nearly nine years since state officials first sounded the alarm about a potential collapse, but experts say could happen at any time. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File)
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FILE - In this Oct. 28, 2009, file photo, empty water tanks sit at the edge of a brine well operation, shown at right of tanks, as a major irrigation canal flows by in Carlsbad, N.M. Almost half of Carlsbad school bus routes travel over the well, on a busy road that borders a giant, underground cavern that resulted from years of manufacturing brine for the oil and gas industry. It's been nearly nine years since state officials first sounded the alarm about a potential collapse, but experts say could happen at any time. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File)
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In this Tuesday, May 9, 2017 photo, peach trees grow at Smolak Farms in North Andover, Mass. Peach orchards across the region have come alive with pink blossoms, and if the weather holds out, it could be a bumper harvest. Last year, a Valentine's Day frost essentially destroyed the New England and New York crop. An April cold spell severely damaged the New Jersey crop. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
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In this April 27, 2017 photo, peach trees are in full bloom at Clarkdale Orchards in Deerfield, Mass. A year after the peach crop in the northeastern U.S. hit the pits, growers and agricultural officials are anticipating a healthy rebound in 2017. (Paul Franz/Greenfield Recorder via AP)
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In this Tuesday, May 9, 2017 photo, blossoms pop open on peach trees at Smolak Farms in North Andover, Mass. Peach orchards across the region have come alive with pink blossoms, and if the weather holds out, it could be a bumper harvest. Last year, a Valentine's Day frost essentially destroyed the New England and New York crop. An April cold spell severely damaged the New Jersey crop. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
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In this Tuesday, May 9, 2017 photo, peach pits from previous successful growing years rest on the ground below a peach tree at Smolak Farms in North Andover, Mass. Peach orchards across the region have come alive with pink blossoms, and if the weather holds out, it could be a bumper harvest. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
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FILE - In this file photo taken Oct. 23, 2012, a ship is seen in the distance moored at the BP oil refinery in the Strait of Georgia just beyond the location of a proposed coal exporting terminal in Ferndale, Wash., near Bellingham, Wash. American Indian tribes and environmentalists in the Pacific Northwest have successfully fought a slew of fossil fuel export projects in recent years and pushed for local regulations to prevent new proposals. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)
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This image released by Amazon Studios shows Julianne Moore in a scene from, "WonderStruck." (Mary Cybulski/Amazon Studios via AP)
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FILE - In this Oct. 31, 2016, file photo, protesters hold a rally in the lobby of the Wells Fargo Center building in Salt Lake City in support of the Standing Rock Sioux against the Dakota Access pipeline. Opposition to the four-state Dakota Access oil pipeline has boosted efforts to persuade banks to stop supporting projects that might harm the environment or tread on indigenous rights. (Al Hartmann/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP, File)
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Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson on Monday approved the Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance plan, which broadens the scope of the Mexico City Policy. (Associated Press/File)
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FILE - In this Jan. 18, 2017 file photo, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., right, confers with Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla. on Capitol Hill in Washington, during the committee's confirmation hearing for Environmental Protection Agency Administrator-designate, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt. Republicans anxious to show they've done something point to the reversal of more than a dozen Obama-era regulation on guns, the internet and the environment. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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FILE - In this Aug. 7, 2008 file photo, then-US ambassador to Tanzania Mark Green is seen at the US embassy in Tanzania. Green is a rare bird in Washington these days: A nominee of President Donald Trump enjoying broad bipartisan support. But there’s a catch to his potential posting as administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development. The agency faces a starkly uncertain future, including possibly major budget cuts and being folded entirely into a restructured State Department. (AP Photo/Khalfan Said, File)
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Drivers stand outside of their vehicles after traffic came to a complete stop because of a fatal accident on eastbound I-70 near the four-mile marker near West Terre Haute, Ind., Saturday, May 13, 2017. Authorities say several people are dead after a tractor-trailer slammed into the back of a car and then hit a flatbed truck hauling steel bars in western Indiana. (Joseph C. Garza/The Tribune-Star via AP)
