Environment

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FILE - In this Feb. 13, 2017, file photo, a helicopter takes off with a bag filled with rock to be dropped in a hole on the lip of the Oroville Dam's emergency spillway in Oroville, Calif. The barrier is being repaired after authorities ordered mass evacuations for everyone living below the lake out of concerns the spillway could fail and send a wall of water roaring downstream. 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. 14, 2017, file photo evacuees listen to an announcement lifting the evacuation of the Oroville Dam communities, in Chico, 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. Sheriff Kory Honea reacted by ordering the immediate evacuation of nearly 200,000 people downstream. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

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FILE - In this Feb. 13, 2017, file photo, water flows down the damaged 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, Kendra Curieo waits in traffic to evacuate Marysville, Calif. Thousands of residents of Marysville and other Northern California communities were told to leave their homes as an emergency spillway of the Oroville Dam could fail at any time unleashing flood waters from Lake Oroville. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

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FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2017, file photo, water rushes down the damaged Oroville Dam spillway, 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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In this April 11, 2017 photo, Lt. B. Jean Judney, a member of Haiti's new national military force points directions to his soldiers during training at a former U.N. base in Gressier, Haiti. While Haiti is a long way off from having a real military, efforts to build up a defense force at whatever level excites some and unnerves others. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

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FILE - This 2016 file photo provided by The Xerces Society shows a rusty patched bumblebee in Minnesota, which was officially designated an endangered species March 21, 2017. A federal judge ruled Monday, April 17, 2017, that because of the bumblebee's status, construction on a multimillion-dollar suburban Chicago road project has to stop. Court documents say the bee was found along the parkway's route in the Brunner Family Forest Preserve. The order is in place at least until April 25. (Sarah Foltz Jordan/The Xerces Society via AP, File)

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In this Dec. 15, 2016 photo provided by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. customs officials destroy a batch of tropical lumber at a landfill in Houston, after 1,770 metric tons of it was held at docks for more than a year on evidence it was illegally harvested in Peru. The amount in the seizure was enough to cover three football fields. The importers paid the storage and disposal fees as part of a no-fault administrative settlement. The wood's impoundment was a pyrrhic victory in Washington's efforts to get Peru to clean up its notoriously corrupt timber industry. (ICE via AP)

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Former Peruvian Forest inspection agency chief Rolando Navarro poses for a photo near the Capitol building in Washington on Saturday, April 1, 2017. Navarro attained a rare victory against illegal logging _ the world’s No. 1 environmental crime, according to the U.N. _ only to be summarily dismissed in January 2016, when he fled for safety reasons into U.S. exile. He has applied for political asylum. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

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Former Peruvian Forest inspection agency chief Rolando Navarro poses for a photo at the Mall in Washington, Saturday, April 1, 2017. Navarro attained a rare victory against illegal logging _ the world’s No. 1 environmental crime, according to the U.N. _ only to be summarily dismissed in January 2016, when he fled for safety reasons into U.S. exile. He has applied for political asylum. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

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This 2013 photo provided by Rolando Navarro, the ousted former director of Peru’s forest inspection service, shows him at the Jenaro Herrera Center for Investigations in Iquitos, Peru, leading a training session. An Amazon native, Navaro had, when named to the job a year earlier, criss-crossed the vast region for more than a decade, observing extensive illegal logging. (Courtesy Rolando Navarro via AP)

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In this Feb. 20, 2017 photo, a Peruvian forest service agent looks at documentation for wood from the Amazon arriving at the port of Callao, Peru. For years, the U.S. has been pressing for an electronic timber tracking system and for prompt sanctions for illegal logging. U.S. and Peruvian customs and law enforcement officials say real reform can begin only by purging officials who have falsified permits _ a task that’s up to the forest service. But inspections to detect criminal timber harvesting operations were scaled back. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

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In this Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2016 photo, nearly 1,770 tons of Peruvian wood, nearly all of it found to have been illegally harvested in the Amazon rainforest, sits under tarps dockside at The Port of Houston. It was denied entry by U.S. Customs in October 2015 and was destroyed more than a year later in a non-fault administrative settlement. At least one importer fell under federal criminal investigation. The lumber is Exhibit A in the fight to preserve tropical forests, a vital buffer against climate change. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

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In this photo taken in Feb. 20, 2017, a customs agent observes the arrival of trucks with wood from the Peruvian Amazon at the port of Callao, Peru. Inspections to detect criminal timber harvesting operations were scaled back following the halting of 1,770 metric tons at the Port of Houston in October 2015 in a rare blow against illegal logging. Prosecutions of illicit logging in Peru have barely advanced since, while officials who signed falsified logging permits for years remain on the job. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

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Alaska Gov. Bill Walker addresses reporters during a news conference Tuesday, April 18, 2017, in Juneau, Alaska. During the news conference, Walker reiterated his call for a plan this year to fix Alaska's deficit. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer)

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FOR RELEASE MONDAY, APRIL 24, 2017, AT 12:01 A.M. CDT.- This billboard at 1903 W. Wisconsin Ave. in Appleton is part of a statewide project to draw attention to missing people in Wisconsin. (Dan Powers/The Post-Crescent via AP)

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Sean Askay, right, engineering manager with Google Earth, demonstrates features on Google Earth, displayed in background, Tuesday, April 18, 2017, in New York. Google Earth is getting a revival, with the mapping service becoming more of a tool for adventure and exploration. (AP Photo/Anick Jesdanun)

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Trapped by the Paris Climate Treaty Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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Ron Nichols president of Southern California Edison (SCE), talks during a news conference launching a unique systems combining a hybrid battery and gas turbine to produce and store electricity at the SCE Center Power Plant in Norwalk, Calif., on Monday, April 17, 2017. Nichols said the twin systems that went online March 30 operate somewhat like a hybrid car, drawing first on the battery, then switching over to the gas turbine if power demands spike. (AP Photo/Christopher Weber)