Environment

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This June 2016 photo provided by The Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center Inc. shows a fawn being cared for by the rescue center on Long Island in Hampton Bays, N.Y. Recent New York state guidelines mandating limited intervention have stirred heated debate and even a lawsuit. Under those guidelines, the largely volunteer force of about 1,300 licensed wildlife rehabilitators in the state can no longer nurse injured or sick adult white-tailed deer indefinitely. They have 48 hours to either release or euthanize them. (Virginia Frati/The Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center, Inc. via AP)

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This Jan. 5, 2017 photo provided by The Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center Inc. shows a deer being cared for by the rescue center on Long Island in Hampton Bays, N.Y. Recent New York state guidelines mandating limited intervention have stirred heated debate and even a lawsuit. Under those guidelines, the largely volunteer force of about 1,300 licensed wildlife rehabilitators in the state can no longer nurse injured or sick adult white-tailed deer indefinitely. They have 48 hours to either release or euthanize them, making this deer's fate uncertain. (Virginia Frati/The Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center, Inc. via AP)

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This Jan. 5, 2017 photo provided by The Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center Inc. shows a deer being cared for by the rescue center on Long Island in Hampton Bays, N.Y. Recent New York state guidelines mandating limited intervention have stirred heated debate and even a lawsuit. Under those guidelines, the largely volunteer force of 1,300 licensed wildlife rehabilitators in the state can no longer nurse injured or sick adult white-tailed deer indefinitely. They have 48 hours to either release or euthanize them, making this deer's fate uncertain. (Virginia Frati/The Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center, Inc. via AP)

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As traffic creeps past on the New Jersey Turnpike, drivers work on cars stuck in the snow Saturday, Jan. 7, 2017, near New Brunswick, N.J. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

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Chinese men wearing masks to filter the pollution walk on a bridge near building shrouded by fog and pollution in Beijing, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017. China has long faced some of the worst air pollution in the world, blamed on its reliance of coal for energy and factory production, as well as a surplus of older, less efficient cars on its roads. Inadequate controls on industry and lax enforcement of standards have worsened the pollution problem. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

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A woman wears a mask as she walks past a construction site as smog continues to choke Beijing on Friday, Jan. 6, 2017. The official Xinhua News Agency reported this week that the environmental ministry had given out punishments after finding that more than 500 construction sites and enterprises, including metallurgy, agricultural chemical and steel plants, and 10,000 vehicles had breached pollution response plans. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

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In this Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017 photo, Amanda Foltz, Lauren Miller and Amber Shaw take a sea turtle named Captain out of her tank at Mote Marine in Sarasota, Fla., as they prepare her to be transferred to a van and taken to her new home. After a nearly four-hour drive, which Captain spent in a foam-padded kiddie pool, she had arrived at her new spot: Broward County's yet-to-open Carpenter House Marine Environmental Education Center. (Rachel O'Hara/Sarasota Herald-Tribune via AP)

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In this Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017 photo, Amy Hupp, with the Carpenter House: Marine Environmental Education Center in Hollywood, Fla., calms a sea turtle named "Captain" as she prepares to ride in the back of the van with her in Sarasota, Fla. After a nearly four-hour drive, which Captain spent in a foam-padded kiddie pool, she had arrived at her new spot: Broward County's yet-to-open Carpenter House Marine Environmental Education Center. (Rachel O'Hara/Sarasota Herald-Tribune via AP)

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In this Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017 photo, handlers calm a sea turtle named Captain at Mote Marine in Sarasota, Fla., as they prepare her to be transferred to a van and taken to her new home. After a nearly four-hour drive, which Captain spent in a foam-padded kiddie pool, she had arrived at her new spot: Broward County's yet-to-open Carpenter House Marine Environmental Education Center. (Rachel O'Hara/Sarasota Herald-Tribune via AP)

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In this Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017 photo, a sea turtle named Captain swims in her tank at Mote Marine in Sarasota, Fla., Captain has been at Mote Marine, since 2014 so that she could be rehabilitated and work on her diving and floating skills after being hit by a boat many years ago. She now has weights on the back of her shell to help her but she will never be able to be released back into the wild. She was transferred to Broward County's yet-to-open Carpenter House Marine Environmental Education Center on Jan. 4. (Rachel O'Hara/Sarasota Herald-Tribune via AP)

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Chris Guyot, 13, Kayleigh, 10, and their mom, Tricia, and the rest of the family, Evan Guyot, and Tyler, 19, (not pictured) of Orange, Calif., pack up their belongings after being told to evacuate the Yosemite Valley Lodge, in Yosemite National Park, Calif., Friday Jan. 6, 2017. A massive storm bearing down on Central California could overflow rivers, trigger rockslides and topple trees, prompting rangers at Yosemite National Park to close roads to the valley floor. Other parts of the park remain open, but rangers warn visitors to watch out for ice and falling debris. (Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)

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A car drives through flooded water on Green Valley Road in Graton, Calif., Saturday, Jan. 7, 2017. On the California coast, weather forecasters anticipate a storm surge from the Pacific called an atmospheric river to dump several inches of rain from Sonoma to Monterey counties, and up to a foot in isolated places in the Santa Cruz mountains. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

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A man walks in the rain past a covered storefront in San Anselmo, Calif., Saturday, Jan. 7, 2017. On the California coast, weather forecasters anticipate a storm surge from the Pacific called an atmospheric river to dump several inches of rain from Sonoma to Monterey counties, and up to a foot in isolated places in the Santa Cruz mountains. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

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A van drives through flooded water on Green Valley Road in Graton, Calif., Saturday, Jan. 7, 2017. On the California coast, weather forecasters anticipate a storm surge from the Pacific called an atmospheric river to dump several inches of rain from Sonoma to Monterey counties, and up to a foot in isolated places in the Santa Cruz mountains. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

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Gracie McKeowen carries her dog Rocky as she walks in the rain in Guerneville, Calif., Saturday, Jan. 7, 2017. On the California coast, weather forecasters anticipate a storm surge from the Pacific called an atmospheric river to dump several inches of rain from Sonoma to Monterey counties, and up to a foot in isolated places in the Santa Cruz mountains. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

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A couple walks passed the Hunter-Holmes building on the University of Georgia's North Campus after a wintry mix came through Athens, Ga., Saturday, January 07, 2017. (John Roark/Athens Banner-Herald via AP)

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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS - In this Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016, photo, Stephen Mackessy, center, a professor at the University of Northern Colorado, and student Graham Dawson watch a rattlesnake watch a rattlesnake at the school in in Greeley, Colo. The rattlesnake was relocated from a solar farm near Mehaffey Park in Loveland, Colo. Mackessy and his team of student researchers have captured snakes in the area of the solar farm, tagged the creatures and released them to see how the snakes are faring near human developments. (Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald via AP)

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Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen delivers a speech before traveling to visit Central American allies including a U.S. transit, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2017, at the Taoyuan International Airport in Taouyuan, Taiwan. Tsai pledged to bolster Taiwan's presence on the international stage on her visit four Central American allies on a trip that includes U.S. transits and looks set to raise China's ire. (Central News Agency via AP)

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Anaheim Ducks' Ondrej Kase (86) is helped off the ice after a hard fall in the first period of an NHL hockey game against the Arizona Coyotes in Anaheim, Calif., Friday, Jan. 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Christine Cotter)

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City crews help local business owners fill sandbags in the Sparks Industrial Park in Sparks, Nev., Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 within a mile of the Truckee River, which is expected to experience its worst flooding this weekend in more than a decade. The mayor of the city neighboring Reno has declared a state of emergency as warmer, wet storm is expected to hit on the heels of a colder one that dumped more than 6 feet of snow on the stop of the Sierra over the past week. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)