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Water from the Russian River floods an RV park Monday, Jan. 9, 2017, near Forestville, Calif. A massive storm system stretching from California into Nevada lifted rivers climbing out of their banks, flooded vineyards and forced people to evacuate after warnings that hillsides parched by wildfires could give way to mudslides. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
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Flooded canoes remain in an abandoned RV park Monday, Jan. 9, 2017, in Forestville, Calif. A massive storm system stretching from California into Nevada lifted rivers climbing out of their banks, flooded vineyards and forced people to evacuate after warnings that hillsides parched by wildfires could give way to mudslides. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
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A man and his dog stand on a bridge and look at the Russian River, Monday, Jan. 9, 2017, in Guerneville, Calif. A massive storm system stretching from California into Nevada lifted rivers climbing out of their banks, flooded vineyards and forced people to evacuate after warnings that hillsides parched by wildfires could give way to mudslides. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
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Vineyards remain flooded in the Russian River Valley, Monday, Jan. 9, 2017, in Forestville, Calif. A massive storm system stretching from California into Nevada lifted rivers climbing out of their banks, flooded vineyards and forced people to evacuate after warnings that hillsides parched by wildfires could give way to mudslides. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
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High winds toppled a tree into the street and on top of a parked car in the 500 block of N. Walnut Street Monday, Jan. 9, 2017, in Colorado Springs, Colo. High winds have overturned some large vehicles and damaged buildings in the Colorado Springs area while ice is making travel dangerous in western Colorado. (Mark Reis/The Gazette via AP)
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In this photo, made available by the Colorado Department of Transportation, a fire crew responds Monday, Jan. 9, 2017, at the scene of an overturned diesel tanker truck involved in a high wind-related accident, with the tanker spilling about 2000 gallons of diesel, along Interstate 70 near Gypsum, in western Colo. High winds have overturned some large vehicles and damaged buildings in the Colorado Springs area while ice is making travel dangerous in western Colorado. (Randy McIntosh/CDOT via AP)
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The bubble over the Country Club of Colorado Aquatic Center is in tatters from high winds Monday, Jan. 9, 2017, in Colorado Springs Colo. High winds have overturned some large vehicles and damaged buildings in the Colorado Springs area while ice is making travel dangerous in western Colorado. (Mark Reis/The Gazette via AP)
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A rolled semi slows I-25 in the southbound lanes just north of the S. Academy Blvd exit Monday, Jan. 9, 2017, in Colorado Springs, Colo. High winds have overturned some large vehicles and damaged buildings in the Colorado Springs area while ice is making travel dangerous in western Colorado. (Mark Reis/The Gazette via AP)
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FILE -- In this June 15, 2014 file photo, a polar bear dries off after taking a swim in the Chukchi Sea in Alaska. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released its plan Monday, Jan. 9, 2017, for the recovery of threatened polar bears, acknowledging it will take no direct action for addressing the primary threat, that of greenhouse gases that contribute to the decline of sea ice habitat. Polar bears, the first species to be declared threatened or endangered because of climate change, rely on sea ice for hunting seals and raising their young. (Brian Battaile/U.S. Geological Survey via AP, File)
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Polar bears are not disappearing as some scientists have projected, research shows. (Associated Press/File)
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Vermont Republican Gov. Phil Scott stands in front of a new solar power project he helped inaugurate on Monday, Jan. 9, 2017 in Montpelier, Vt. Scott, who took office last week, said he remains committed to the goal set by his predecessor of getting 90 percent of the state's power from renewable sources by 2050. (AP Photo/Wilson Ring)
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Tree workers remove a tree that had fallen on a rooftop in Aptos, Calif., Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017. Rivers are rising and winds are whipping up as a massive storm arrives in Northern California and is expected to push into Nevada by the evening. (Dan Coyro/The Santa Cruz Sentinel via AP)
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In this image provided by Wolfgang Forstmeier via the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, a male pectoral sandpiper, right, courting a female on the tundra near Barrow, Alaska. (Wolfgang Forstmeier/Max Planck Institute for Ornithology via AP)
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In this image provided by Katharina Kapetanopoulos via the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, two male pectoral sandpipers in a competitive, territorial display flight in Barrow, Alaska, in June 2012. (Katharina Kapetanopoulos/Max Planck Institute for Ornithology via AP)
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In this image provided by Bart Kempenaers via the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, an ale pectoral sandpiper on the tundra near Barrow, Alaska, calling to attract a female. (Bart Kempenaers/Max Planck Institute for Ornithology via AP)
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Then-Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a conference on climate change and innovation in clean energy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., Monday, Jan. 9, 2017. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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In this Sept. 21, 2015, file photo, a Volkswagen logo is seen on car offered for sale at New Century Volkswagen dealership in Glendale, Calif. The Volkswagen executive, Oliver Schmidt, who once was in charge of complying with U.S. emissions regulations has been arrested in connection with the company’s emissions-cheating scandal, a person briefed on the matter said Monday, Jan. 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
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This Jan. 4, 2017, image provided by the U.S. Energy Department and its contractor Nuclear Waste Partnership shows workers moving waste underground at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M. The repository, the federal government's only underground spot for disposing of low-level nuclear waste, had been shuttered for nearly three years since a 2014 radiation release. (Sam Christensen/Nuclear Waste Partnership via U.S. Energy Department)
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Rosie Salazar stands on Amapola Street after alerting neighbors that a tree had fallen and crushed two cars Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017, in Sacramento, Calif. Rivers are rising and winds are whipping up as a massive storm arrives in Northern California and is expected to push into Nevada by the evening. (Renee C. Byer/The Sacramento Bee via AP)
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In this Saturday Jan. 7, 2017 photo, City of Reno crews close flood-prone roads and bridges in Northern Nevada late Saturday, including the Lake Street bridge over the Truckee River by the old Reno Arch in downtown Reno, Nevada. The region's worst flooding in a decade is forecast Sunday night into Monday. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)
