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Parker's Maple Barn employee Kyle Gay pours maple tree sap into a larger bucket, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017, in Brookline, N.H. Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-NH, led a discussion with maple syrup producers in New Hampshire about how climate change is impacting their industry. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
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FILE--In this April 8, 2003, file photo, steam rises from Energy Northwest's Columbia Generating Station, Washington state's only nuclear power plant, near Richland, Wash. A new study says Pacific Northwest ratepayers could save hundreds of millions of dollars if the Bonneville Power Administration and Energy Northwest close the region's only commercial nuclear power plant and replace its output with renewable energy. (AP Photo/Jackie Johnston, file)
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Maple tree sap drips from a tap into a bucket, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017, in Brookline, N.H. Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-NH, led a discussion with maple syrup producers in New Hampshire about how climate change is impacting their industry. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt speaks to employees of the EPA in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt speaks to employees of the EPA in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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This Nov. 16, 2016 photo provided by the Coalition To Restore Coastal Louisiana shows a section of the new oyster reef, left of land mass in center portion of photo, made from recycled oyster shells, on the shoreline of Saint Bernard, La. An oyster shell recycling program spearheaded by two environmental groups in coordination with area restaurants aims to take a waste product that used to fill landfills and instead make it into a structure that tiny oyster larvae can latch onto and grow. The structures in turn can slow erosion and storm surge that is swiftly eating into Louisiana's coast as well as provide other environmental benefits. (Nic Dixon /Coalition To Restore Coastal Louisiana via AP)
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In a Friday, Nov. 18, 2016 photo, member of the Coalition To Restore Coastal Louisiana walks out on a reef constructed from recycled oyster shells, in St. Bernard, La., Friday, Nov. 18, 2016. The oyster shell recycling program spearheaded by two environmental groups in coordination with area restaurants aims to take a waste product that used to fill landfills and instead make it into a structure that tiny oyster larvae can latch onto and grow. The structures in turn can slow erosion and storm surge that is swiftly eating into Louisiana's coast as well as provide other environmental benefits. (AP Photo/Janet McConnaughey)
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In a Friday, Nov. 18, 2016 photo, gabion baskets containing recycled oyster shells protrude out of the water where a reef was constructed in St. Bernard, La. The oyster shell recycling program spearheaded by two environmental groups in coordination with area restaurants aims to take a waste product that used to fill landfills and instead make it into a structure that tiny oyster larvae can latch onto and grow. The structures in turn can slow erosion and storm surge that is swiftly eating into Louisiana's coast as well as provide other environmental benefits. (AP Photo/Janet McConnaughey)
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In a Friday, Nov. 18, 2016 photo, recycled oyster shells are seen in a gabion basket in Lake Athanasio, as part of a reef that was constructed in St. Bernard, La. An oyster shell recycling program spearheaded by two environmental groups in coordination with area restaurants aims to take a waste product that used to fill landfills and instead make it into a structure that tiny oyster larvae can latch onto and grow. The structures in turn can slow erosion and storm surge that is swiftly eating into Louisiana's coast as well as provide other environmental benefits. (AP Photo/Janet McConnaughey)
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This Nov. 16, 2016 photo provided by the Coalition To Restore Coastal Louisiana shows machinery placing gabion baskets full of recycled oyster shells to form a reef on the shoreline of Saint Bernard, La. The oyster shell recycling program spearheaded by two environmental groups in coordination with area restaurants aims to take a waste product that used to fill landfills and instead make it into a structure that tiny oyster larvae can latch onto and grow. The structures in turn can slow erosion and storm surge that is swiftly eating into Louisiana's coast as well as provide other environmental benefits. (Christa Russell/Coalition To Restore Coastal Louisiana via AP)
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This Nov. 16, 2016 photo provided by the Coalition To Restore Coastal Louisiana shows construction of a reef made from recycled oyster shells in Lake Athanasio, in Saint Bernard, La. The oyster shell recycling program spearheaded by two environmental groups in coordination with area restaurants aims to take a waste product that used to fill landfills and instead make it into a structure that tiny oyster larvae can latch onto and grow. The structures in turn can slow erosion and storm surge that is swiftly eating into Louisiana's coast as well as provide other environmental benefits. (Nic Dixon/Coalition To Restore Coastal Louisiana via AP)
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This Nov. 16, 2016 photo provided by the Coalition To Restore Coastal Louisiana shows gabion baskets filled with recycled oyster shells in Buras, La., before being loaded onto a barge for reef construction. The oyster shell recycling program spearheaded by two environmental groups in coordination with area restaurants aims to take a waste product that used to fill landfills and instead make it into a structure that tiny oyster larvae can latch onto and grow. The structures in turn can slow erosion and storm surge that is swiftly eating into Louisiana's coast as well as provide other environmental benefits. (Nic Dixon/Coalition To Restore Coastal Louisiana via AP)
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In a Friday, Nov. 18, 2016 photo, Richie Blink, left, of the National Wildlife Federation, and Ben LeBlanc, president of LeBlanc Marine Construction, look over a map of the area where a reef was constructed from recycled oyster shells in St. Bernard Parish, La. The oyster shell recycling program spearheaded by two environmental groups in coordination with area restaurants aims to take a waste product that used to fill landfills and instead make it into a structure that tiny oyster larvae can latch onto and grow. The structures in turn can slow erosion and storm surge that is swiftly eating into Louisiana's coast as well as provide other environmental benefits. (AP Photo/Janet McConnaughey)
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This Nov. 17, 2016 photo provided by the Coalition To Restore Coastal Louisiana shows large piles of shell being stored in Buras, La., which were collected for an oyster shell recycling program. The program spearheaded by two environmental groups in coordination with area restaurants aims to take a waste product that used to fill landfills and instead make it into a structure that tiny oyster larvae can latch onto and grow. The structures in turn can slow erosion and storm surge that is swiftly eating into Louisiana's coast as well as provide other environmental benefits. (Sarah Pate/Coalition To Restore Coastal Louisiana via AP)
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A man walks through floodwaters Monday, Feb. 20, 2017, in Salinas, Calif. Forecasters issued flash flood warnings Monday throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and elsewhere in Northern California as downpours swelled creeks and rivers in the already soggy region. (Nic Coury/Monterey County Weekly via AP)
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Stranded vehicles stand loaded with goods after the Jammu-Srinagar highway remained closed, at Jammu, India, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017. The Jammu-Srinagar national highway remained closed for vehicular traffic for the second day Tuesday following landslides triggered by rains, officials said. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)
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Malaysian Ambassador to North Korea Mohamad Nizan Mohamad speaks to journalists as he arrives at the Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, China, from Pyongyang after being recalled by Malaysian government, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017. Mohamad says at the airport while in transit to Malaysia the investigation into the death of the exiled half-brother of North Korea's ruler at Kuala Lumpur's international airport in Malaysia is being conducted in an impartial manner. Kim appeared to have been poisoned at Kuala Lumpur’s airport last week. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
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Malaysian Ambassador to North Korea Mohamad Nizan Mohamad speaks to journalists as he arrives at the Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, China, from Pyongyang after being recalled by Malaysian government, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017. Mohamad says at the airport while in transit to Malaysia the investigation into the death of the exiled half-brother of North Korea's ruler at Kuala Lumpur's international airport in Malaysia is being conducted in an impartial manner. Kim appeared to have been poisoned at Kuala Lumpur’s airport last week. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
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In this Feb. 17, 2017 photo, NASA's lead aircraft integration engineer Eugenia De Marco works inside the Navy P-3 Orion aircraft used for a NASA-led experiment called SnowEx, at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colo. Instrument-laden aircraft are surveying the Colorado high country this month as scientists search for better ways to measure how much water is locked up in the world's mountain snows - water that sustains a substantial share of the global population. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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Residents walk down a flooded road on Monday, Feb. 20, 2017, in Salinas, Calif. Forecasters issued flash flood warnings Monday throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and elsewhere in Northern California as downpours swelled creeks and rivers in the already soggy region. (Nic Coury/Monterey County Weekly via AP)
