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FILE - In this June 3, 2011, file photo, wind turbines stand along the Columbia River Gorge near Goldendale, Wash. Renewable energy developers say they are hopeful about the future despite President-elect Donald Trump's promise to bring coal mining jobs back. In recent years, huge solar and wind farms have sprouted up on public desert land in the Western United States buoyed by generous federal tax credits. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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FILE - In this March 23, 2010, file photo, installers from California Green Design install solar electrical panels on the roof of a home in Glendale, Calif. Renewable energy developers say they're hopeful about the future despite President-elect Donald Trump's promise to bring coal mining jobs back. In recent years, huge solar and wind farms have sprouted up on public desert land in the Western United States buoyed by generous federal tax credits. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)
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FILE - In this April 4, 2013, file photo, a mining dumper truck hauls coal at Cloud Peak Energy's Spring Creek strip mine near Decker, Mont. Renewable energy developers say they're hopeful about the future despite President-elect Donald Trump's promise to bring coal mining jobs back. In recent years, huge solar and wind farms have sprouted up on public desert land in the Western United States buoyed by generous federal tax credits. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)
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FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2013 file photo, Canada's pop star Justin Bieber performs in concert during his Believe world tour in Buenos Aires, Argentina. A court in Argentina indicted Bieber on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2016 for allegedly sending his bodyguards to beat up a photographer in Buenos Aires three years ago. (AP Photo/DyN, Pablo Molina, File)
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A view of a new shelter installed over the exploded reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, Chernobyl, in Chernobyl, Ukraine, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)
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PSG's Edinson Cavani kicks the ball during their French League One soccer match between PSG and Lorient at the Parc des Princes stadium in Paris, France, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
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PSG's Blaise Matuidi, left, challenges for the ball with Lorient's Arnold Makengo Mvuemba during their French League One soccer match between PSG and Lorient at the Parc des Princes stadium in Paris, France, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
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The official 2017 Inauguration Celebration SmarTrip fare card is issued by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. Unlike designs from 2009 and 2013, the president-elect is not featured. (Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority)
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In this Dec. 7, 2016 photo, U.S. Forest Service District Ranger Dave Halemeier describes plans for part of the Malheur National Forest in John Day, Ore. The armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge headquarters caused a sensation and global headlines, but a quieter and perhaps more important struggle is being waged by those trying to use the levers of power, and not firearms.(AP Photo/Andrew Selsky)
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In this Dec. 7, 2016 photo, a cow stands on a ranch outside the Malheur National Forest near John Day, Ore. The armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge headquarters caused a sensation and global headlines, but a quieter and perhaps more important struggle is being waged by those trying to use the levers of power, and not firearms.(AP Photo/Andrew Selsky)
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This Dec. 7, 2016 photo, shows the entrance to the Malheur National Forest near John Day, Ore. The armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge headquarters caused a sensation and global headlines, but a quieter and perhaps more important struggle is being waged by those trying to use the levers of power, and not firearms. (AP Photo/Andrew Selsky)
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In this Dec. 6, 2016 photo, antlers hang above a doorway of a pioneer building near Dayville, Ore. Sixty-six percent of the county's 4,529 square miles of forests, mountains and high desert are federal lands, which sometimes puts locals in opposition with federal land managers. (AP Photo/Andrew Selsky)
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In this Dec. 7, 2016 photo, Jim Sproul, a member of the dissolved Grant County Public Forest Commission, gestures while visiting Malheur National Forest near John Day, Ore. The armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge headquarters caused a sensation and global headlines, but a quieter and perhaps more important struggle is being waged by those trying to use the levers of power, and not firearms. (AP Photo/Andrew Selsky)
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FILE - In this April 1, 2016 file photo, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz speaks at the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington. The Energy Department said Wednesday it is offering a conditional, $2 billion loan guarantee to capture and store carbon dioxide at a planned Louisiana methanol plant, a new element of the Obama's administration's strategy to slow global warming. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike, center, speaks with Tokyo Olympics Organizing Committee President Yoshiro Mori, left, at the Four-Party Working Group meeting in Tokyo, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016. Japanese Olympic organizers presented their first official cost estimate for the 2020 Tokyo Games at a level slightly below their promised 2 trillion ($17 billion) cap. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)
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Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike arrives at the Four-Party Working Group meeting in Tokyo, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016. Japanese Olympic organizers presented their first official cost estimate for the 2020 Tokyo Games at a level slightly below their promised 2 trillion ($17 billion) cap. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)
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FILE - In this April 4, 2006 file photo, parts of the Beachwood-Franklin neighborhood in Merced, Calif., are seen after being flooded from a levee break. The federal government will be pouring nearly a quarter-billion dollars into several dozen projects aimed at tackling the effects of drought in the West and restoring watersheds that provide drinking water to communities around the nation. The head of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service, Jason Weller, said Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016, that in addition to the federal funds, the projects will leverage close to $500 million from state, local and private partners. (Jack Bland/The Merced Sun-Star via AP, File)
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FILE - In this May 1, 2014 file photo, irrigation water runs along the dried-up ditch between the rice farms to provide water for the rice fields in Richvale, Calif. The federal government will be pouring nearly a quarter-billion dollars into several dozen projects aimed at tackling the effects of drought in the West and restoring watersheds that provide drinking water to communities around the nation. The head of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service, Jason Weller, said Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016, that in addition to the federal funds, the projects will leverage close to $500 million from state, local and private partners. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
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Air China passenger planes preparing to take off at the Beijing Capital International Airport as the capital of China is shrouded by heavy smog on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016. Beijing and much of industrial northern China are in the midst of a "red alert," the highest level in China's four-tiered pollution warning system. The alert has affected 460 million people, according to Greenpeace East Asia, which calculated that about 200 million people were living in areas that had experienced levels of air pollution more than 10 times above the guideline set by the World Health Organization. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
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A passenger plane prepares to land at the Beijing Capital International Airport as the capital of China in heavy smog on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016. Beijing and much of industrial northern China are in the midst of a "red alert," the highest level in China's four-tiered pollution warning system. The alert has affected 460 million people, according to Greenpeace East Asia, which calculated that about 200 million people were living in areas that had experienced levels of air pollution more than 10 times above the guideline set by the World Health Organization. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
