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Protest organizer Russell Mokhiber gathers crowd at Hancock, Md., community center during TransCanada open house to explain proposed gas pipeline beneath the Potomac River, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017. A Potomac River protection group organized a demonstration against plans for a pipeline beneath the river that would carry natural gas from Pennsylvania to West Virginia. (Kevin G. Gilbert/The Herald-Mail via AP)
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Protest organizer Russell Mokhiber gathers crowd at Hancock, Md., community center during TransCanada open house to explain proposed gas pipeline beneath the Potomac River, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017. A Potomac River protection group organized a demonstration against plans for a pipeline beneath the river that would carry natural gas from Pennsylvania to West Virginia. (Kevin G. Gilbert/The Herald-Mail via AP)
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Jason Hamil, a project management worker, answers citizen questions during a TransCanada open house to explain a proposed gas pipeline beneath the Potomac River, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017. A Potomac River protection group organized a demonstration against plans for a pipeline beneath the river that would carry natural gas from Pennsylvania to West Virginia. (Kevin G. Gilbert/The Herald-Mail via AP)
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Self-styled hippie Kitty Morgan opened a store called Summer of Love less than a year after Ellicott City floods destroyed her former place of employment.
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Emergency crews work to place sandbags Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017, after the 21 Mile Dam near Montello, Nev., broke and caused flooding to the Union Pacific railroad line near Lucin and flooded the town of Montello. (Stuart Johnson/ The Deseret News via AP)/The Deseret News via AP)
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FILE - In this Dec. 22, 2015, file photo, Chris White, general manager of the Central California Irrigation District, explains the expense of sinking land near Dos Palos, Calif. Four years of drought and heavy reliance on pumping of groundwater have made the land sink faster than ever up and down the Central Valley, requiring repairs to infrastructure that experts say are costing billions of dollars. Land in the Central Valley is sinking so much from over pumping of groundwater that it's now starting to damage the state's vital north-south water project, state officials say. (AP Photo/Scott Smith, File)
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FILE - This Dec. 22, 2015, file photo shows a buckle in the lining of the Delta Mendota Canal caused by sinking land near Dos Palos, Calif. Years of drought and heavy reliance on pumping of groundwater have made the land sink faster than ever up and down California's Central Valley, requiring repairs to infrastructure that experts say are costing billions of dollars. Land in the Central Valley is sinking so much from over pumping of groundwater that it's now starting to damage the state's vital north-south water project, state officials say. (AP Photo/Scott Smith, File)
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FILE - This July 23, 2015, file photo provided by the California Department of Water Resources shows the Russell Avenue bridge, over the Delta Mendota Canal in Firebaugh, Calif. The drought has caused the bridge to subside until there's almost no space between bottom of bridge decking and canal water surface. A NASA scientist says in a report released Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015 that parts of California's Central Valley are sinking faster than ever as groundwater is being pumped during the state's historic drought. Land in the Central Valley is sinking so much from over pumping of groundwater that it's now starting to damage the state's vital north-south water project, state officials say.(Florence Low/ California Department of Water Resources via AP, File)
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FILE - In this Sept. 13, 2016, file photo, a protestor, who would only identify himself as Robert, flies an upside down United States flag outside the federal courthouse in Portland, Ore., during the trial for Ammon and Ryan Bundy and five others over the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. Federal wildlife employees will again be barred from testifying about any fear they felt during last winter's armed occupation of the national bird sanctuary in southeastern Oregon. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, File)
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FILE - In this June 7, 2011, file photo, state Sen. Daylin Leach, D-Montgomery, addresses a host of environmental and community groups gathered for a rally in the state capitol against gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale natural gas formation in Harrisburg, Pa. Leach posted a profanity-laced tweet on Feb. 7, 2017, to defend a fellow state lawmaker in Texas after President Donald Trump mulled destroying the unnamed lawmaker’s career. (AP Photo/Bradley C. Bower, File)
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The solar farm at the Indianapolis International Airport is pictured, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017, in Indianapolis. Duke Energy and other utilities are backing measures in the Indiana Legislature and several other states that would eventually end the ability of small operators to produce solar power. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)
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The solar farm at the Indianapolis International Airport is pictured, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017, in Indianapolis. Duke Energy and other utilities are backing measures in the Indiana Legislature and several other states that would eventually end the ability of small operators to produce solar power. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)
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Water trickles down as workers inspect part of the Lake Oroville spillway failure on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017 in Oroville, Calif. The Department of Water Resources said the erosion at Lake Oroville does not pose a threat to the earthen dam or public safety, and the reservoir has plenty of capacity to handle the continuing rain. (Randy Pench/The Sacramento Bee via AP)
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Department of Water Resources workers and members of the media watch as up to 20,000 cubic feet per second of water is released over the damaged spillway on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017 in Oroville, Calif. The Department of Water Resources said the erosion at Lake Oroville does not pose a threat to the earthen dam or public safety, and the reservoir has plenty of capacity to handle the continuing rain. (Randy Pench/The Sacramento Bee via AP)
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In this Feb. 4, 2017, photo, a Greater Adjutant Stork, an endangered bird with a total population of 1,200 in the world, flies at Dadara village, west of Gauhati, India. For decades the big and awkward looking carnivore and scavenging bird was the object of revulsion in its home in northeast India until a group of women took it upon themselves to save the endangered bird. They called themselves the hargila army, for the bird's name in the local Assamese language. Nearly 150 local women now pray, sing hymns, weave scarves and other items on their handlooms with the motifs of the bird, to create awareness about the need to protect the species. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
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In this Feb. 6, 2017, photo, students of Sankardev Sishu Niketan school draw Greater Adjutant Storks, an endangered bird with a total population of 1,200 in the world, in their classroom at Dadara village, west of Gauhati, India. With about 800 birds Assam has the largest number of the Greater Adjutant Stork, concentrated largely in three villages just northwest of state capital Gauhati. Conservationists say they have launched a pride campaign among the children and youth so they can proudly say their village is home to the Hargilas, the name of the bird in local Assamese language. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
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In this Feb. 6, 2017, photo, a teacher of Sankardev Sishu Niketan school draws a Greater Adjutant Stork, an endangered bird with a total population of 1,200 in the world, on a blackboard at Dadara village, west of Gauhati, India. With about 800 birds Assam has the largest number of the Greater Adjutant Stork, concentrated largely in three villages just northwest of state capital Gauhati. Conservationists say they have launched a pride campaign among the children and youth so they can proudly say their village is home to the hargilas, the name of the bird in local Assamese language. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
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In this Feb. 4, 2017, photo, a Greater Adjutant Stork, an endangered bird, rests in a nest with a baby at Dadara village, west of Gauhati, India. For decades the big and awkward looking carnivore and scavenging bird was the object of revulsion in its home in northeast India until a group of women took it upon themselves to save the endangered bird. They called themselves the hargila army, for the bird's name in the local Assamese language. Nearly 150 local women now pray, sing hymns, weave scarves and other items on their handlooms with the motifs of the bird, to create awareness about the need to protect the species. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
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In this Feb. 4, 2017, photo, a member of "hargila army," the name of the endangered Greater Adjutant Stork in local Assamese language, displays a weave with motifs of the bird in Dadara village, west of Gauhati, India. For decades the big and awkward looking carnivore and scavenging bird was the object of revulsion in its home in northeast India until the hargila army took it upon themselves to save the endangered bird. With about 800 birds Assam has the largest number of the Greater Adjutant Stork in the world, concentrated largely in three villages just northwest of state capital Gauhati. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
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In this Jan. 24, 2017, photo, a forest official washes a carcass of a Greater Adjutant Stork, an endangered bird, near a garbage dumping site in the Deepor Beel wildlife sanctuary, on the outskirts of Gauhati, India. For decades the big and awkward looking carnivore and scavenging bird was the object of revulsion in its home in northeast India. "It was seen as a bird with an evil omen that brings in carcass and other rotten stuff," wildlife biologist Purnima Devi Barman, who works with a local conservation group called Aranyak, said. "We had to involve the locals because the bird nests on trees owned by individual households. The future of the Greater Adjutant Stork depends on individual tree owners who used to fell trees earlier to get rid of the nests," Barman said. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
