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Tim Kasal, left, helps an unidentified ODOT worker spread gravel under his vehicle after he and a handful of other drivers slid on a freeway offramp, causing a pileup in Portland, Ore., Friday, Feb. 3, 2017. Freezing rain has caused many crashes in the Portland and Columbia River Gorge areas. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)
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Tim Kasal stands amidst damaged cars after he was involved in a multi-vehicle pileup on an icy freeway offramp in Portland, Ore., Friday, Feb. 3, 2017. Freezing rain has caused many crashes in the Portland and Columbia River Gorge areas. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)
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FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2011 file photo, Cheryl LaFleur of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) speaks in Omaha, Neb. Major natural gas pipeline projects along the East Coast and Midwest face uncertainty as the federal agency that oversees the work loses a commissioner and will be unable to decide on projects for the first months of the Trump administration. President Donald Trump named LaFleur to lead the panel last week. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)
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In this handout photo provided by the Swedish Government, Sweden's Deputy Prime Minister Isabella Lovin, left, signs a proposal for the Scandinavian country's new climate law in Stockholm, Friday, Feb. 3, 2017. Sweden's Deputy Prime Minister has posted on Facebook an all-woman photo including herself signing a proposal for the Scandinavian country's new climate law - a photo many online commentators have taken as a direct swipe at Donald Trump. (Johan Schiff/Swedish Government via AP)
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In this Jan. 31, 2017 photo, agriculture regulators from seven different states and Guam tour a Denver marijuana growing warehouse on a tour organized by the Colorado Department of Agriculture in Denver. The department is opening up its marijuana knowledge to other states and encouraging them to plan now for the possibility of regulating farmers growing a plant that violates federal law. (AP Photo/Kristen Wyatt)
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In this Jan. 31, 2017 photo, Denver marijuana grower Tim Cullen, left, shows young marijuana clones to out-of-state agriculture officials on a grow warehouse tour organized by the Colorado Department of Agriculture in Denver. Colorado's Agriculture Department is opening up its marijuana knowledge to other states and encouraging them to plan now for the possibility of regulating farmers growing a plant that violates federal law. (AP Photo/Kristen Wyatt)
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An 1895 photo shows the Bogoslof Island seen from the northwest in Alaska. Bogoslof Island or Agasagook Island is the summit of a submarine stratovolcano located along the southern edge of the Bering Sea, 35 miles (56 km) northwest of Unalaska Island of the Aleutian Island chain. Bogoslof Volcano erupted late Monday night, Jan. 30, 2017, and its ash cloud reached 25,000 feet high. The Alaska Volcano Observatory says Bogoslof was quieting down Tuesday. (USGS Denver Library Photographic Collection via AP)
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In this May 10, 1994, aerial photo provided by Alaska Volcano Observatory/U.S. Geological Survey shows the Bogoslof Island looking south. Trace amounts of ash and the smell of sulfur reached an Alaska city 61 miles away after the latest eruption of Bogoslof Volcano in the Aleutian Islands. Bogoslof Volcano erupted late Monday night, Jan. 30, 2017, and its ash cloud reached 25,000 feet high. The Alaska Volcano Observatory says Bogoslof was quieting down Tuesday. (T. Keith/Alaska Volcano Observatory/U.S. Geological Survey via AP)
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This March 9, 2016 photo shows bison captured from Yellowstone National Park being held in a government research facility near Corwin Springs, Mont. A deal disclosed Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017, will allow the mass slaughter of hundreds of wild bison migrating from Yellowstone National Park, while sparing 25 animals that American Indian tribes want to start new herds. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)
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This March 9, 2016 photo shows a bison from Yellowstone National Park being held for shipment to slaughter near Gardiner, Mont. A deal disclosed Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017, will allow the mass slaughter of hundreds of wild bison migrating from Yellowstone National Park, while sparing 25 animals that American Indian tribes want to start new herds. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)
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It's an emergency! (Illustration by Dana Summers of the Tribune Media Services)
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In this April 28, 2009 photo shows a rainbow trout that is being reared at the Montague High School in Montague, Mich. A state judge has sided with a fish farming operation, Feb. 2, 2017, that wants to dramatically boost production of rainbow trout of Michigan's Au Sable River. A 2014 permit issued by the Department of Environmental Quality to Harrietta Hills Trout Farm was endorsed by Administrative Law Judge Daniel Pulter. It would allow the farm to produce 300,000 pounds of trout annually, up from 20,000 pounds a few years ago. (Cory Morse/Muskegon Chronicle via AP)
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FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 18, 2016 file photo, crews battle a wildfire on U.S. 64 in Cleveland, Okla. Oklahoma has been placed under a national fire advisory as much of the state struggles with unrelenting drought and tinder-dry vegetation capable of igniting and quickly spreading out of control, state forestry officials said, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017. (Mike Simons/Tulsa World via AP, File)
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In this 2014 this photo, from left, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks employees Dave Fuller, Chris Wesolek, and Matt Rugg release a pallid sturgeon after taking blood samples from the fish. U.S. officials are pressing a federal judge to lift his 2015 order blocking a proposed irrigation dam and fish passage on the Yellowstone River, warning that a rapidly-disappearing, ancient fish population faces a grim future with further delay. (James Woodcock/The Billings Gazette via AP)
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Seats on the Democrat's side of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing room are empty on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017, during a boycott to thwart the confirmation vote on Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator-designate Scott Pruitt. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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In this photo taken with a long exposure, cars drive up the access road to the summit of Haleakala volcano in Haleakala National Park hours before sunrise on Hawaii’s island of Maui, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017. The long winding drive leads to the summit at 10,000 feet. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones)
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The moon hangs above the horizon as the glow of the sun begins to fill the sky in front of the summit of Haleakala volcano in Haleakala National Park on Hawaii's island of Maui, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017. Park officials say the sunrise on Haleakala attracts over a thousand people a day, resulting in an overload of visitors and creating a safety hazard. As a result, anyone wanting to see the sunrise on the summit will now be required to make reservations in advance and pay a small fee. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones)
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Clouds hang below the summit of Haleakala volcano in Haleakala National Park on Hawaii's island of Maui, Monday, Jan. 23, 2017. Park officials say the sunrise on Haleakala attracts over a thousand people a day, resulting in an overload of visitors and creating a safety hazard. As a result, anyone wanting to see the sunrise on the summit will now be required to make reservations in advance and pay a small fee. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones)
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The sun rises in front of the summit of Haleakala volcano in Haleakala National Park on Hawaii's island of Maui, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017. Park officials say the sunrise on Haleakala attracts over a thousand people a day, resulting in an overload of visitors and creating a safety hazard. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones)
