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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)
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Agriculture Secretary-designate, former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue is sworn-in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 23, 2017, prior to testifying at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Agriculture Secretary-designate, former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 23, 2017, to testify at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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This photo provided by Ukrainian Emergency Situations Ministry press service a fire rages at a military ammunition depot in Balaklia near Khrakiv in Ukraine on Thursday, March 23 2017. There was no immediate information about any casualties. Ukrainian officials say the massive fire that prompted the evacuation of 20,000 has been caused sparked by sabotage.. (AP Photo/Ministry of Emergency Situations press service via AP)
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This photo provided by Ukrainian Emergency Situations Ministry press service a fire rages at a military ammunition depot in Balaklia near Khrakiv in Ukraine on Thursday, March 23 2017. There was no immediate information about any casualties. Ukrainian officials say the massive fire that prompted the evacuation of 20,000 has been caused sparked by sabotage.. (AP Photo/Ministry of Emergency Situations press service via AP)
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This photo provided by Ukrainian Emergency Situations Ministry press service a fire rages at a military ammunition depot in Balaklia near Khrakiv in Ukraine on Thursday, March 23 2017. There was no immediate information about any casualties. Ukrainian officials say the massive fire was caused by sabotage and prompted the evacuation of some 20,000 people. (AP Photo/Ministry of Emergency Situations press service via AP)
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This photo provided by Ukrainian Emergency Situations Ministry press service a fire rages at a military ammunition depot in Balaklia near Khrakiv in Ukraine on Thursday, March 23 2017. There was no immediate information about any casualties. Ukrainian officials say the massive fire that prompted the evacuation of 20,000 has been caused sparked by sabotage.. (AP Photo/Ministry of Emergency Situations press service via AP)
