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This Nov. 1, 2016 photo provided by Drew Wharton shows a female black bear wearing GPS collar in Yosemite National Park. Rangers on Monday, April 3, 2017, unveiled a website that allows anybody around the world to track the movement of the park's iconic black bears. Bears are fitted with GPS collars that ping their location from a satellite onto the website, which rangers hope will educate the public about bears and ultimately protect them from harm. (Drew Wharton via AP)
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Construction of the Oregon Clean Energy Center, a natural gas power plant scheduled to open in the summer of 2017, nears completion Monday, April 3, 2017, in Oregon, Ohio. With about a dozen natural gas power plants now being built or developed in Ohio, natural gas is on track to replace coal as Ohio's dominant source of electricity. The Trump administration's move to eliminate environmental restrictions in an effort to help coal isn't likely to stop the shift. (AP Photo/John Seewer)
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In this Feb. 22, 2017, photo, Rob Deter removes cables from trees hauled up a steep slope where a crew is thinning a 100-acre patch on private land owned by the Nature Conservancy overlooking Cle Elum Lake, in Cle Elum, Wash. As part of a broader plan by the nonprofit environmental group to restore the pine forests of the Central Cascades so they are more resilient to wildfires and climate change, they're cutting down trees to save the forest. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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In this Feb. 22, 2017, photo, a Douglas fir, center, is left standing where a crew is thinning a 100-acre patch on private land owned by the Nature Conservancy overlooking Cle Elum Lake, in Cle Elum, Wash. As part of a broader plan by the nonprofit environmental group to restore the pine forests of the Central Cascades so they are more resilient to wildfires and climate change, they're cutting down trees to save the forest. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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In this Feb. 22, 2017, photo, Ryan Haugo, senior forest ecologist for the Nature Conservancy, describes large trees being left while smaller ones are thinned on a 100-acre patch on private land they own overlooking Cle Elum Lake, in Cle Elum, Wash. As part of a broader plan by the nonprofit environmental group to restore the pine forests of the Central Cascades so they are more resilient to wildfires and climate change, they're cutting down trees to save the forest. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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In this Feb. 22, 2017, photo, logs are stacked above Cle Elum Lake, where a crew is thinning a 100-acre patch on private land owned by the Nature Conservancy overlooking the lake, in Cle Elum, Wash. As part of a broader plan by the nonprofit environmental group to restore the pine forests of the Central Cascades so they are more resilient to wildfires and climate change, they're cutting down trees to save the forest. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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This Feb. 22, 2017, photo, shows a "fire scar" at the base of a ponderosa pine, indicating where previous fire has killed a small section of the living cells right under the bark, where a crew is thinning a 100-acre patch on private land owned by the Nature Conservancy overlooking Cle Elum Lake, in Cle Elum, Wash. As part of a broader plan by the nonprofit environmental group to restore the pine forests of the Central Cascades so they are more resilient to wildfires and climate change, they're cutting down trees to save the forest. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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In this Feb. 22, 2017, photo, Rob Deter peers out from under his hard hat where he is part of a crew thinning a 100-acre patch on private land owned by the Nature Conservancy overlooking Cle Elum Lake, in Cle Elum, Wash. As part of a broader plan by the nonprofit environmental group to restore the pine forests of the Central Cascades so they are more resilient to wildfires and climate change, they're cutting down trees to save the forest. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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In this Feb. 22, 2017, photo, a log yarder moves a log into position above a slope where a crew is thinning a 100-acre patch on private land owned by the Nature Conservancy overlooking Cle Elum Lake, in Cle Elum, Wash. As part of a broader plan by the nonprofit environmental group to restore the pine forests of the Central Cascades so they are more resilient to wildfires and climate change, they're cutting down trees to save the forest. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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In this Feb. 22, 2017, photo, Trevor Gibson walks atop logs he'll cut into shorter sections as part of a crew thinning a 100-acre patch on private land owned by the Nature Conservancy overlooking Cle Elum Lake, in Cle Elum, Wash. As part of a broader plan by the nonprofit environmental group to restore the pine forests of the Central Cascades so they are more resilient to wildfires and climate change, they're cutting down trees to save the forest. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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In this Feb. 22, 2017, photo, a log felled days earlier is grabbed by a log yarder after being hauled up a steep slope where a crew is thinning a 100-acre patch on private land owned by the Nature Conservancy overlooking Cle Elum Lake, in Cle Elum, Wash. As part of a broader plan by the nonprofit environmental group to restore the pine forests of the Central Cascades so they are more resilient to wildfires and climate change, they're cutting down trees to save the forest. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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In this Feb. 22, 2017, photo, Trevor Gibson eyes a pile of logs he'll be cutting into shorter lengths at a thinning operation on a 100-acre patch on private land owned by the Nature Conservancy overlooking Cle Elum Lake, in Cle Elum, Wash. As part of a broader plan by the nonprofit environmental group to restore the pine forests of the Central Cascades so they are more resilient to wildfires and climate change, they're cutting down trees to save the forest. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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In this Feb. 22, 2017, photo, a log yarder hauls a log up a steep slope where a crew is thinning a 100-acre patch on private land owned by the Nature Conservancy overlooking Cle Elum Lake, in Cle Elum, Wash. As part of a broader plan by the nonprofit environmental group to restore the pine forests of the Central Cascades so they are more resilient to wildfires and climate change, they're cutting down trees to save the forest. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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Demonstrators descended on the Washington, D.C. neighborhood of Ivanka Trump and husband Jared Kushner Saturday night for a "queer dance party" protesting the Trump administration's climate change policies. (WUSA 9)
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This Monday, April 3, 2017, photo from video provided by KMOV shows damage to the roof of a box company in St. Louis after a boiler exploded and flew before crashing through the roof of a nearby laundry business. Authorities said several people were killed as a result of the explosion. (KMOV via AP)
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This Monday, April 3, 2017 photo from video provided by KMOV shows damage to the roof of a box company in St. Louis after a boiler exploded and flew before crashing through the roof of a nearby laundry business. Authorities said several people were killed as a result of the explosion. (KMOV via AP)
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In this Aug. 12, 2015 photo, Environmental Protection Agency contractors use heavy machinery to repair damage at the site of the blowout at the Gold King Mine, which triggered a spill of toxic wastewater, outside Silverton, Colo. Farmers, business owners and residents initially said they suffered $1.2 billion in lost income, property damage and personal injuries from the 2015 spill at the Gold King Mine. The total now appears to be about $420 million after attorneys for a handful of New Mexico property owners slashed their claims by $780 million. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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In this Aug. 12, 2015 photo, an Environmental Protection Agency contractor works on the cleanup in the aftermath of the blowout at the Gold King Mine, overseeing water flowing from the mine into a series of sediment retention ponds, mitigating damage from the spill of toxic wastewater, outside Silverton, Colo. Farmers, business owners and residents initially said they suffered $1.2 billion in lost income, property damage and personal injuries from the 2015 spill at the Gold King Mine. The total now appears to be about $420 million after attorneys for a handful of New Mexico property owners slashed their claims by $780 million. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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Oregon residents formed steady lines at a BottleDrop recycling redemption center in Portland, Ore., on Saturday, April 1, 2016, the first day the refund rate for empty water bottles, beer bottles and soda cans jumped to 10 cents. Oregon was the first state in the nation to give 5-cent refunds for recycling used water bottles and soda cans more than 45 years ago. Now, in an effort to boost recycling, this eco-trailblazing state is doubling that refund. (AP Photo/Kristena Hansen).”
