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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)
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This undated photo provided by the California State Lands Commission shows Platform Holly, an oil drilling rig in the Santa Barbara Channel offshore of the city of Goleta, Calif. The platform will be decommissioned and its operator is seeking bankruptcy protection, nearly two years after the platform was idled when an onshore pipeline ruptured and spilled a massive amount of oil into the ocean, the state and Venoco LLC said Monday, April 17, 2017. (State Lands Commission via AP)
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This photo provided by Disney shows a new land opening at Walt Disney World's Animal Kingdom in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., on May 27, 2017, called "Pandora - The World of Avatar." The land was inspired by the lush world of Pandora depicted in the movie "Avatar." (Kent Phillips/Disney via AP)
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This photo provided by Disney shows guests in the "Na'vi River Journey," part of the new land opening at Walt Disney World's Animal Kingdom in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., on May 27, 2017, called "Pandora - The World of Avatar." The land was inspired by the lush world of Pandora depicted in the movie "Avatar." (Disney via AP)
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In this photo provided by Jim Best/University of Illinois, taken in 2016, a close-up view of the ice-walled canyon at the terminus of the Kaskawulsh Glacier, with recently collapsed ice blocks. This canyon now carries almost all meltwater from the toe of the glacier down the Kaskawulsh Valley and toward the Gulf of Alaska and the Pacific Ocean instead of the Bering Sea. (Jim Best/University of Illinois via AP)
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In this Thursday, April 13, 2017 photo, a truck drives by wind turbines near Okarche, Okla. Gov. Mary Fallin is expected to sign legislation Monday, April 17, that rolls back a 10-year tax credit for electricity generated by zero-emission facilities, an incentive for wind power generators as well as geothermal, solar and hydropower producers that’s been in place since 2003. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
