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A fallen tree lies across a road after windy weather in Portland on Friday, April 7, 2017. (Dave Killen /The Oregonian via AP)
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FILE - This Friday, Sept. 20, 2013 file photo shows the University of Maine's prototype wind turbine generator off the coast of Castine, Maine. A proposal before the Maine Legislature in 2017 would prevent the state from permitting an offshore wind energy project in the vicinity of Monhegan Island, about 12 nautical miles off of Maine's mainland and known as a home to artists, seasonal residents and lobster fishermen. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)
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FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2012 file photo, Jim Whitman, with the nonprofit organization Farm Rescue that helps farmers in need, drives a combine in a cornfield at a farm near Wyndmere, N.D. The organization is expanding into its sixth state. Farm Rescue will provide free haying and hay-hauling help to Nebraska farmers in need this year, as it continues providing services to farmers in both Dakotas, Montana, Minnesota and Iowa. (AP Photo/Dave Kolpack, File)
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A cherry tree along the Tidal Basin in Washington are damaged following a storm, Thursday, April 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Cherry trees along the Tidal Basin in Washington are damaged following a storm, Thursday, April 6, 2017. Several cherry trees were uprooted when heavy rains and strong winds blew through the Nation’s Capital. The National Park Service said on its Twitter feed that about a dozen trees were uprooted Thursday afternoon. The cherry, elm and pine trees were at the paddle boat parking area at the Tidal Basin near the Jefferson Memorial.(AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Douglas Bettcher, Director of the Department for Prevention of Noncommunicable Diseases of World Health Organization (WHO) speaks during a media conference in Tokyo, Friday, April 7, 2017. The senior World Health Organization official says Japan should go fully smoke-free in public places if it wants success in Tokyo Olympics and tourism promotion. (AP Photo/Mari Yamaguchi)
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People gather at the smoking area in Tokyo, Friday, April 7, 2017. The senior World Health Organization official says Japan should go fully smoke-free in public places if it wants success in Tokyo Olympics and tourism promotion. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
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People gather at the smoking area in Tokyo, Friday, April 7, 2017. The senior World Health Organization official says Japan should go fully smoke-free in public places if it wants success in Tokyo Olympics and tourism promotion. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
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Douglas Bettcher, Director of the Department for Prevention of Noncommunicable Diseases of World Health Organization (WHO) speaks as he shows a document during a media conference in Tokyo, Friday, April 7, 2017. The senior World Health Organization official says Japan should go fully smoke-free in public places if it wants success in Tokyo Olympics and tourism promotion. ( (AP Photo/Mari Yamaguchi)
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People gather at the smoking area in Tokyo, Friday, April 7, 2017. The senior World Health Organization official says Japan should go fully smoke-free in public places if it wants success in Tokyo Olympics and tourism promotion. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara) ** FILE **
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A street is flooded on Evergreen Drive on Middlegrounds Island, Mich., is flooded by the Saginaw River on Thursday, April 6, 2017. A mix of snow and rain across much of Michigan is causing hazardous driving conditions and bringing the threat of flooding in places. (Tori Schneider/The Bay City Times via AP)
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In this picture taken on Tuesday, April 4, 2017, victims of the suspected chemical weapons attack lie on the ground, in Khan Sheikhoun, in the northern province of Idlib, Syria. The death toll from a suspected chemical attack on a northern Syrian town rose to 72 on Wednesday as activists and rescue workers found more terrified survivors hiding in shelters near the site of the harrowing assault, one of the deadliest in Syria's civil war. (Alaa Alyousef via AP)
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Illustration on examining the science examining climate change by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times
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A Cherry Tree along the Tidal Basin in Washington, are damaged following a storm, Thursday, April 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Cherry trees along the Tidal Basin in Washington are damaged following a storm, Thursday, April 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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This Wednesday, April 5, 2017, image captured by a Southern Nevada Conservancy remote camera as part of the Clark County Desert Conservation Program, shows a desert tortoise known as Mojave Max outside a burrow at Red Rock National Conservation Area near Las Vegas. Local officials say they see a sign of spring with the emergence of a desert tortoise from a winter burrow in an enclosure at a federal preserve in southern Nevada. (Southern Nevada Conservancy/Clark County Desert Conservation Program via AP)
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The home page of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). In a not-so-subtle message about its policy priorities, the Trump administration has updated the home page for the federal agency that oversees public lands to showcase a large photo of an open-pit coal mine. (BLM via AP)
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A sailboat is hoisted into the Great Salt Lake Thursday, April 6, 2017, about 20 miles west of Salt Lake City. Dozens of beached sailboats that spent two years on the shore of Utah's drought-stricken Great Salt Lake were hoisted on cranes back into the briny waters after winter storms raised lake levels. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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A sailboat is hoisted into the Great Salt Lake Thursday, April 6, 2017, about 20 miles west of Salt Lake City. Dozens of beached sailboats that spent two years on the shore of Utah's drought-stricken Great Salt Lake were hoisted on cranes back into the briny waters after winter storms raised lake levels. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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A sailboat is hoisted into the Great Salt Lake Thursday, April 6, 2017, about 20 miles west of Salt Lake City. Dozens of beached sailboats that spent two years on the shore of Utah's drought-stricken Great Salt Lake were hoisted on cranes back into the briny waters after winter storms raised lake levels. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
