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FILE – This June 14, 2011, file photo shows the reactor building at the Crystal River Nuclear Plant, which was shut down in 2009 before a troubled maintenance project and Duke Energy Corp. decided to decommission in 2013, during a tour for reporters in Crystal River, Fla. As costs of running aging nuclear reactors increase, some small, mostly rural towns that are home to the nation's nuclear plants are bracing for what's to come, as towns where nuclear plants were shuttered deal with higher property taxes, cuts in services and less school funding. (Will Vragovic/Tampa Bay Times via AP, Pool, File)
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In this March 20, 2017, photo, boats wrapped and stored for winter sit near the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station along Lake Erie in Oak Harbor, Ohio. FirstEnergy Corp. will decide by next year whether to close or sell its plant in Pennsylvania and two in Ohio, including Davis-Besse, unless the states change regulations to make them more competitive. (AP Photo/John Seewer)
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Amazon Flex driver James Fowler is pictured outside the car he drives for Amazon Flex with an empty Amazon bag in Vancouver, Wash., Monday, March 13, 2017. He earns $18 to $25 per hour working through the service, delivering packages and other goods. (Ariane Kunze/The Columbian via AP)
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Paula Timms of Caraway climbs up to the roof of her mother-in-law's house to help with repairs Saturday after Friday night's storm in Jonesboro, Ark., March 25, 2017. An uprooted tree took also knocked out the power to the house. Storms demolished mobile homes in Arkansas and a church in Louisiana as a menacing weather system threatened several states across the South and Midwest, authorities said. (Staci Vandagriff /The Jonesboro Sun via AP)
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Coty Cox, an employee of Craighead Electric Cooperative, finishes replacing one of the downed power lines along Lacy Drive in Jonesboro, Ark., Saturday, March 25, 2017. Storms demolished mobile homes in Arkansas and a church in Louisiana as a menacing weather system threatened several states across the South and Midwest, authorities said. (Staci Vandagriff/The Jonesboro Sun via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR THE WEEKEND OF MARCH 25-26 AND THEREAFTER - In a Friday, March 17, 2017 photo, filmmaker Ian Hinkle poses for a photo in Port Townsend, Wash. Hinkle, a former resident of Port Townsend, returned to show his 2014 documentary "Reaching Blue" about the effects of climate change on the Salish Sea. (Cydney McFarland/Peninsula Daily News via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY MARCH 26 AND THEREAFTER - In a Tuesday March 14, 2017 photo, 3 month-old roseate spoonbills take to the skies over Florida Bay, Fla., away from its nesting area of South Nest Key. Audubon Florida Everglade science researcher, Dr. Jerry Lorenz, is studying how wading birds like Spoonbills population reflects the health of Florida Bay. (Carl Juste/Miami Herald via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY MARCH 26 AND THEREAFTER - In a Tuesday March 14, 2017 photo, a 3 month-old roseate spoonbills take to the skies over Florida Bay, Fla., away from its nesting area of South Nest Key. Audubon Florida Everglade science researcher, Dr. Jerry Lorenz, is studying how wading birds like Spoonbills population reflects the health of Florida Bay. (Carl Juste/Miami Herald via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY MARCH 26 AND THEREAFTER - In a Tuesday March 14, 2017 photo, Audubon Florida Everglade science researcher, Dr. Jerry Lorenz, studies how wading birds in their natural environment in Florida Bay, Fla. Lorenz is studying how wading birds like spoonbills population reflects the health of Florida Bay. (Carl Juste/Miami Herald via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY MARCH 26 AND THEREAFTER - In a Tuesday March 14, 2017 photo, a 3 month-old roseate spoonbill take to the skies over Florida Bay as another lands near its nesting area of South Nest Key, Fla. Audubon Florida Everglade science researcher Dr. Jerry Lorenz, is studying how wading birds like Spoonbills population reflects the health of Florida Bay. (Carl Juste/Miami Herald via AP)
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FILE - In this Sept. 19, 2016, file photo, Oakland Athletics pitcher Jharel Cotton works against the Houston Astros in the first inning of a baseball game in Oakland, Calif. Cotton dazzled in his first stint in the majors last year, going 2-0 with a 2.15 ERA in five starts. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)
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FILE - In this May 1, 2006 file photo, freshly caught cod are stacked on ice waiting for shipment at a fish processing plant in Portland, Maine. State data released in March 2017 show that 2016 was the worst year for the commercial catch of cod in the history of Maine. (AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach, File)
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FILE - This Dec. 10, 2016, file photo, provided by the North Dakota Department of Health shows an oil spill from the Belle Fourche Pipeline that was discovered Dec. 5, 2016 in Ash Coulee Creek, a tributary of the Little Missouri River, near Belfield, N.D. Authorities say the pipeline spill is now believed to be three times larger than first estimated, and one of the biggest in state history. (Scott Stockdill/North Dakota Department of Health via AP, File)
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FILE - This March 8, 2017, file photo, shows officials outside a home near an area where a broken sewer line caused a football field-sized sinkhole in Fraser, Mich., a suburb of Detroit. Three houses in the area had to be condemned. Two of the homes will be demolished starting Friday, March 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Roger Schneider, File)
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Working Together to Stop Nuclear Terror Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times
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FILE--In this Friday, May 27, 2016, photograph, a pump jack works off state highway 119 near Firestone, Colo. On Thursday, March 23, 2017, Colorado's second-highest court says state regulators can put more weight on protecting public health and the environment when they draw up rules for oil and gas drilling. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, file)
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FILE--In this Friday, May 27, 2016, photograph, an oil storage tank sits by a housing development off state highway 119 near Firestone, Colo. On Thursday, March 22, 2017, Colorado's second-highest court says state regulators can put more weight on protecting public health and the environment when they draw up rules for oil and gas drilling. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, file)
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In this May 5, 2015 photo, marijuana plants grows at a Minnesota Medical Solutions greenhouse in Otsego, Minn. (Glen Stubbe/Star Tribune via AP)
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FILE - This Friday, Feb. 29, 2008, photo shows an aerial view of the fly ash landfill at Dominion's Chesapeake Energy Center in Chesapeake, Va. Millions of tons of ash stored at the former coal-fired power plant in the city will become increasingly vulnerable to flooding and other coastal risks. Virginia and its public utilities struggle to cope with the coal ash buried in pits and ponds across the state, tons more of the industrial byproduct is being imported each year. (Bill Tiernan/The Virginian-Pilot via AP)
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Agriculture Secretary-designate, former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 23, 2017, at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
