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FILE - In this Feb. 21, 2017, file photo, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt speaks to employees of the EPA in Washington. Dow Chemical is pushing the Trump administration to scrap the findings of federal scientists who point to a family of widely used pesticides as harmful to about 1,800 critically threatened or endangered species. Lawyers representing Dow and two other makers of organophosphates sent letters last week to the heads of three Cabinet agencies. The letters, obtained by The Associated Press, show the companies asked them “to set aside” the results of government studies. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
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This Monday, April 17, 2017 photo shows a charging station for electric cars in Guilderland, N.Y For drivers of electric cars in remote areas, "range anxiety" can be more pronounced when the nearest charging station is dozens of miles away over winding roads. Cold winters take a bite out of battery power, as do steep hills. (AP Photo/Michael Hill)
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FILE - In this undated file photo, views of Big Indian Gorge is seen from Steens Mountain Loop Road in Harney County, Ore. A federal court has killed a large wind energy project in southeast Oregon after an appeals court found in 2016 that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management had not properly assessed the winter population of greater sage grouse at the proposed facility near Steens Mountain. (Zach Urness/Statesman-Journal via AP, File)
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In this April 20, 2013, file photo, male greater sage grouse perform mating rituals for a female grouse, not pictured, on a lake outside Walden, Colo. A federal court has killed a large wind energy project in southeast Oregon over concerns about a declining sage grouse population that needs the area to breed. The U.S. District Court in Portland vacated plans for the project Tuesday, April 18, 2017, bringing an end to lengthy litigation over the proposal by Columbia Energy Partners. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
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Residents of East Chicago, Ind., and supporters rally near a public-housing complex Wednesday, April 19, 2017, ahead of a visit by Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt. Pruitt was scheduled to to tour the complex where roughly 1,000 people were ordered evacuated because of lead contamination. (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford)
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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt speaks at a news conference Wednesday, April 19, 2017, in East Chicago, Ind., following a tour of a public-housing complex where roughly 1,000 people were ordered evacuated because of lead contamination. (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford)
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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt speaks at a news conference Wednesday, April 19, 2017, in East Chicago, Ind., following a tour of a public-housing complex where roughly 1,000 people were ordered evacuated because of lead contamination. (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford)
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In this Tuesday, April 4, 2017 photo, victims of the suspected chemical weapons attack lie on the ground in Khan Sheikhoun in the northern province of Idlib, Syria. Israeli defense officials say Syrian President Bashar Assad still has up to three tons of chemical weapons. The officials delivered the assessment on Wednesday, April 19, 2017, weeks after a chemical attack in Syria killed at least 90 people. (Alaa Alyousef via AP, File)
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U.S. Sen. Cory Booker looks on as New Jersey Assemblywoman Teresa Ruiz, D-Newark, speaks during a news conference at Newark Penn Station, Wednesday, April 19, 2017, in Newark, N.J. Lawmakers gathered at the transportation hub to call for federal investment in the region's rail and transit infrastructure after recent accidents have highlighted their vulnerability. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, left, speaks as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie listens during a news conference at Newark Penn Station, Wednesday, April 19, 2017, in Newark, N.J. Lawmakers gathered at the transportation hub to call for federal investment in the region's rail and transit infrastructure after recent accidents have highlighted their vulnerability. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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A protester holds a sign at Newark Penn Station prior to a news conference with U.S. Sen. Cory Booker and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Wednesday, April 19, 2017, in Newark, N.J. Lawmakers gathered at the transportation hub to call for federal investment in the region's rail and transit infrastructure after recent accidents have highlighted their vulnerability. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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Ras Baraka, left, mayor of Newark, N.J., speaks as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, second from right, and U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, left, listen during a news conference at Newark Penn Station, Wednesday, April 19, 2017, in Newark, N.J. Lawmakers gathered at the transportation hub to call for federal investment in the region's rail and transit infrastructure after recent accidents have highlighted their vulnerability. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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Protesters hold signs as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks during a news conference at Newark Penn Station, Wednesday, April 19, 2017, in Newark, N.J. Lawmakers gathered at the transportation hub to call for federal investment in the region's rail and transit infrastructure after recent accidents have highlighted their vulnerability. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, right, speaks to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie during a news conference at Newark Penn Station, Wednesday, April 19, 2017, in Newark, N.J. Lawmakers gathered at the transportation hub to call for federal investment in the region's rail and transit infrastructure after recent accidents have highlighted their vulnerability. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, left, speaks as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie listens during a news conference at Newark Penn Station, Wednesday, April 19, 2017, in Newark, N.J. Lawmakers gathered at the transportation hub to call for federal investment in the region's rail and transit infrastructure after recent accidents have highlighted their vulnerability. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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In this artist tendering provided by M. Weiss Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, a newly-discovered rocky exoplanet, LHS 1140b. This planet is located in the liquid water habitable zone surrounding its host star, a small, faint red star named LHS 1140. The planet weighs about 6.6 times the mass of Earth and is shown passing in front of LHS 1140. Depicted in blue is the atmosphere the planet may have retained. (M. Weiss Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics via AP)
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In this photo taken Friday, March 31, 2017, Ron Stork, senior advisor with the Friends of the River conservation group, discusses the near collapse of Oroville Dam's emergency spillway, in his office in Sacramento, Calif. In 2005 Friends of the River warned officials about the weakness of the Oroville Dams' emergency spillway. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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In this photo taken Friday, March 31, 2017, Ron Stork, senior advisor with the Friends of the River conservation group, points to a chart showing water releases from the Oroville Dam, in his office in Sacramento, Calif. The chart, which took flow measurements from the Feather River, near Gridley, Calif., shows the dip in water releases as the dam's spillway was turned off to inspect damage and the spike in water outflow when the reservoir neared capacity. In 2005 Friends of the River warned officials about the weakness of the Oroville Dams' emergency spillway. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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FILE - In this Saturday, Feb. 11, 2017, file photo, Jason Newton, of the Department of Water Resources, takes a picture of water going over the emergency spillway at Oroville Dam in Oroville, Calif. Over six days, operators of the tallest dam in the United States, struggled to figure out their next move after raging floodwaters from California's wettest winter in decades gouged a hole the size of a football field in the dam's main water-release spillway. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2017, file photo, Bill Croyle, acting Director of the California Department of Water Resources, discusses the situation at the Oroville Dam as Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea listens at a news conference in Oroville, Calif. Over six straight days, the operators of the Oroville Dam had been saying there was no immediate danger after water surging down the main spillway gouged a hole the size of a football field in the concrete chute. But now suddenly they realized that the dam's emergency backup spillway — essentially an unpaved hillside — was falling apart, too, and could unleash a deadly torrent of water. Honea reacted by ordering the immediate evacuation of nearly 200,000 people downstream. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
