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This Monday, Jan. 30, 2017 photo, shows a view of the final evaporation pond at the Silver Peak lithium mine near Tonopah, Nev. The R3 Pond has brine with 5500 parts per million of lithium. (Steve Marcus /Las Vegas Sun via AP)
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In this March 19, 2017, photo, visitors and traffic converge at Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve in Lancaster, Calif. Rain-fed wildflowers have been sprouting from California's desert sands after lying dormant for years _ producing a spectacular display that has been drawing record crowds and traffic jams to desert towns. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
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This photo taken March 21, 2017, shows Stephen Stanko leading the kids from Meadowlark elementary in a Bee dance. In recognition of National Agriculture Day Tuesday, the state agriculture department encourages the public to plant plants that attract bees. (Scott G Winterton/The Deseret News via AP)
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This photo taken Tuesday, March 21, 2017, shows Halima Aden and other students from Meadowlark elementary looking at Bees in a display hive. In recognition of National Agriculture Day Tuesday, the state agriculture department encourages the public to plant plants that attract bees. (Scott G Winterton/The Deseret News via AP)
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This photo taken Tuesday, March 21, 2017, shows students from Meadowlark elementary looking at Bees in a display hive. In recognition of National Agriculture Day Tuesday, the state agriculture department encourages the public to plant plants that attract bees. (Scott G Winterton/The Deseret News via AP)
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FILE - In this March 13, 2011 file photo, residents evacuated from the areas surrounding the tsunami-damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant are checked for radiation exposure in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. An aid group says a child diagnosed with thyroid cancer after the Fukushima nuclear accident is missing from government checkup records. Japanese authorities have said none of those diagnosed with thyroid cancer since the 2011 meltdowns was under 5 at the time. They've said that suggests the cases are not related to nuclear-plant radiation. The aid group, however, says one child was 4, and that case is missing from government data. (AP Photo/Wally Santana, File)
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Smoke billows from a section of an overpass that collapsed from a large fire on Interstate 85 in Atlanta, Thursday, March 30, 2017. Witnesses say troopers were telling cars to turn around on the bridge because they were concerned about its integrity. Minutes later, the bridge collapsed. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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A worker takes pictures of downed power lines along a road, Thursday, March 30, 2017, in Las Vegas. High winds are being blamed for multiple scattered power outages affecting almost 40,000 NV Energy customers in the Las Vegas area. (AP Photo/John Locher)
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A worker takes pictures of downed power lines along a road, Thursday, March 30, 2017, in Las Vegas. High winds are being blamed for multiple scattered power outages affecting almost 40,000 NV Energy customers in the Las Vegas area. (AP Photo/John Locher)
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasts off from Kennedy Space Center in Titusville, Fla., Thursday, March 30, 2017. SpaceX launched its first recycled rocket Thursday, the biggest leap yet in its bid to drive down costs and speed up flights. The Falcon 9 blasted off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center, hoisting a broadcasting satellite into the early evening clear sky on the historic rocket reflight. (Red Huber/Orlando Sentinel via AP)
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasts off from Kennedy Space Center in Titusville, Fla., Thursday, March 30, 2017. SpaceX launched its first recycled rocket Thursday, the biggest leap yet in its bid to drive down costs and speed up flights. The Falcon 9 blasted off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center, hoisting a broadcasting satellite into the early evening clear sky on the historic rocket reflight. (Red Huber/Orlando Sentinel via AP)
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasts off from Kennedy Space Center in Titusville, Fla., Thursday, March 30, 2017. SpaceX launched its first recycled rocket Thursday, the biggest leap yet in its bid to drive down costs and speed up flights. The Falcon 9 blasted off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center, hoisting a broadcasting satellite into the early evening clear sky on the historic rocket reflight. (Red Huber/Orlando Sentinel via AP)
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasts off from Kennedy Space Center in Titusville, Fla., Thursday, March 30, 2017. SpaceX launched its first recycled rocket Thursday, the biggest leap yet in its bid to drive down costs and speed up flights. The Falcon 9 blasted off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center, hoisting a broadcasting satellite into the early evening clear sky on the historic rocket reflight. (Red Huber/Orlando Sentinel via AP)
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In this May 13, 2004, file photo, a foreman watches workers pick fruit in an orchard in Arvin, Calif. On May 2, 2004, a number of workers fell ill after pesticides sprayed over an adjacent orchard drifted a quarter-mile and sickened the pickers. The Trump administration won't ban a common pesticide used on food, reversing efforts by the Obama administration to bar the chemical based on findings it could hinder development of children's brains. In announcing the decision late Wednesday, March 29, 2017, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt said that by not banning chlorpyrifos, he was providing "regulatory certainty" to thousands of American farmers that rely on the pesticide. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
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ADVANCE FOR USE SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 2017, AT 3:01 A.M. EDT AND THEREAFTER - In this March 9, 2017, photo, Jack Zborovian, forest fire specialist supervisor for Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR), gestures while inside a fire lookout tower in Mehoopany Twp., Pa. (Christopher Dolan/The Citizens' Voice via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR USE SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 2017, AT 3:01 A.M. EDT AND THEREAFTER - In this March 9, 2017, photo, Jack Zborovian, forest fire specialist supervisor for Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR), gestures while inside a fire lookout tower in Mehoopany Twp., Pa. (Christopher Dolan/The Citizens' Voice via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR USE SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 2017, AT 3:01 A.M. EDT AND THEREAFTER - In this March 9, 2017, photo, Jack Zborovian, forest fire specialist supervisor for Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR), gestures while inside a fire lookout tower in Mehoopany Twp., Pa. (Christopher Dolan/The Citizens' Voice via AP)
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FOR RELEASE SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 2017, AT 3:01 A.M. EDT.- Erin Kabler, Deputy Wildlife Conservation Officer, holds a black bear cub on March 20, 2017 in Cambria County. The Game Commission tracks female black bears to their dens with radio collars to check their health and tag the ears of their cubs. (Haley Nelson/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)
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A sea of electronic waste, consisting mostly of televisions, microwaves, and computers, stacked over six feet high, cover the landscape at Westmoreland Cleanways and Recycling, in Unity, Pa., on Friday, March 24, 2017. Under the state's recycling law, Act 101 of 1988, municipalities with fewer than 5,000 residents are not required to provide at-home, curb-side pickup of recyclables. As a result, only 18 percent of the state's more than 2,500 municipalities are mandated to provide recycling, according to the state Department of Environmental Protection. (Dan Speicher/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review via AP)
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This March 13, 2017 photo shows one ton bales of recycled materials at TC Recycling in Mars, Pa. Some are saying the state's recycling law is in need of updating specifically the threshold that doesn't require recycling for municipalities with less than 5,000 people. (Sidney Davis /Pittsburgh Tribune-Review via AP)
