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This undated photo made available by NASA shows one of Saturn's moons, Mimas, dwarfed by the planet's rings. Launched in 1997, Cassini reached Saturn in 2004 and has been exploring it from orbit ever since. Cassini’s fuel tank is almost empty, so NASA has opted for a risky, but science-rich grand finale. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute via AP)
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In this undated photo provided by the European Space Agency, ESA, analysts at work in the space debris facility located at ESA's ESOC mission control centre, Darmstadt, Germany. Decades' worth of man-made junk is cluttering up Earth's orbit, posing a threat to spaceflight and the satellites we rely on for weather reports, air travel and global communications. More than 750,000 fragments larger than a centimeter are already thought to orbit Earth, and each one could badly damage or even destroy a satellite. (Roberto Palmari/ESA via AP)
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SAIC-GM president Wang Yongping announces the global launch of the Buick Velite 5, an extended range electric hybrid, during a global launch event ahead of the Shanghai Auto 2017 show in Shanghai, China, Tuesday, April 18, 2017. At the auto show, the global industry's biggest marketing event of the year, almost every global and Chinese auto brand is showing at least one electric concept vehicle, if not a market-ready model. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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This 1930's era photo supplied by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service shows the general merchandise store in Tiller, Ore. Almost all of the downtown in Tiller, a dying timber town in remote southwestern Oregon, is for sale for $3.5 million and the elementary school is for sale separately for $350,000. A potential buyer has come forward but is remaining anonymous -- and back-up offers are still being accepted. (U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service via AP)
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This 1930's era photo supplied by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service shows a crew of forest workers in Tiller, Ore. Almost all of the downtown in Tiller, a dying timber town in remote southwestern Oregon, is for sale for $3.5 million and the elementary school is for sale separately for $350,000. A potential buyer has come forward but is remaining anonymous -- and back-up offers are still being accepted. (U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service via AP)
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This 1930's era photo supplied by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service shows a scene in Tiller, Ore. Almost all of the downtown in Tiller, a dying timber town in remote southwestern Oregon, is for sale for $3.5 million and the elementary school is for sale separately for $350,000. A potential buyer has come forward but is remaining anonymous -- and back-up offers are still being accepted. (U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service via AP)
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A view of a fire-damaged campaign sign along Carole Lane in Princess Anne, Md., Saturday, April 15, 2017. Officials have charged two women from the Baltimore area in connection with the burning of a billboard promoting President Donald Trump. (Deborah Gates/The Daily Times via AP)
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This March 10, 2017 photo shows a preserved sharecropper's cabin at Tallahatchie Flats in Greenwood, Miss. The simple rustic cabins are rented out to visitors by the night. Sharecroppers and tenant farmers, most of them African-Americans living in desperate poverty, worked the region's cotton plantations in the decades before the industry was mechanized. (AP Photo/Beth J. Harpaz)
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This March 9, 2017 photo shows cypress trees in the Mississippi Delta. The fertile soil of the region's alluvial forests made them ideal for growing cotton. The region's unique style of blues music came largely from African-Americans who eked out a living on the Delta's cotton plantations. (AP Photo/Beth J. Harpaz)
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Apple blossoms are covered with near Denzlingen, southwestern Germany, Thursday, April 20, 2017. During temperatures below zero the layer of ice is to prevent the blossoms and apple trees from frost damages. (Patrick Seeger/dpa via AP)
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Apple blossoms are covered with near Denzlingen, southwestern Germany, Thursday, April 20, 2017. During temperatures below zero the layer of ice is to prevent the blossoms and apple trees from frost damages. (Patrick Seeger/dpa via AP)
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In this photo taken Aug. 4, 2009 file photo, a crop duster sprays a field of crops just outside Headland, Ala. 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. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, File)
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In this Monday, April 17, 2017 photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, a Long March 7 rocket carrying the Tianzhou 1 is transferred to the launching site in Wenchang, south China's Hainan Province. China is preparing to launch its first unmanned cargo spacecraft on a mission to dock with the country's space station. The Tianzhou 1 was due to blast off at 7:41 p.m. (1141 GMT) Thursday atop a latest-generation Long March 7 rocket from China's newest spacecraft launch site. (Ju Zhenhua/Xinhua via AP)
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In this Monday, April 17, 2017 photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, a Long March 7 rocket carrying the Tianzhou 1 is transferred to the launching site in Wenchang, south China's Hainan Province. China is preparing to launch its first unmanned cargo spacecraft on a mission to dock with the country's space station. The Tianzhou 1 was due to blast off at 7:41 p.m. (1141 GMT) Thursday atop a latest-generation Long March 7 rocket from China's newest spacecraft launch site. (Zeng Tao/Xinhua via AP)
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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)
