Environment

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FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2015, file photo, Chinese Coast Guard members approach Filipino fishermen as they confront each other off Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea, also called the West Philippine Sea. The Philippines and the U.S. are trying to verify a report that Chinese coast guard ships have left a disputed shoal, allowing Filipino fishermen back to the rich fishing area that China seized in 2012, triggering tensions in the South China Sea. (AP Photo/Renato Etac, File)

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In this Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016 photo, Jesse Aubie drills a new drinking water well in Topsham, Vt. Despite recent rain and snow, much of Vermont is now in a drought and the state is asking residents to conserve water when possible and report shortages. (AP Photo/Lisa Rathke)

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Libertarian vice presidential nominee, Bill Weld, walks down a hallway to his campaign rally in Anchorage, Alaska, Friday, Oct. 28, 2016. Weld sees a receptive audience for his ticket's message in Alaska, a state where he's investing time in the run-up to the Nov. 8 general election. (AP Photo/Michael Dinneen)

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Libertarian vice presidential nominee Bill Weld speaks with a supporter prior to addressing a campaign rally in Anchorage, Alaska, Friday, Oct. 28, 2016. Campaign consultant Apollo Pazell is at right. Weld sees a receptive audience for his ticket's message in Alaska, a state where he's investing time in the run-up to the Nov. 8 general election. (AP Photo/Michael Dinneen)

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ADVANCE FOR SATURDAY, OCT. 29, AND THEREAFTER – In this Oct. 19, 2016 photo, Mining engineer Henry "Hank" Zielinski overlooks a landscape of waste coal that his employer Northampton Fuel Supply is reclaiming, as he visits the site in Foster Township, Luzerne County, Pa. Coal waste discarded by miners of yesteryear wasn't useful for the furnaces of homes and factories of previous generations, but now mining engineers like Henry "Hank" Zielinski can extract fuel from waste coal. (Kent Jackson/Hazelton Standard-Speaker via AP)

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In this Oct. 25, 2016 photo, Gelene Jeudy, 16, pumps water from a contaminated well in Aux Coteaux, a district of Les Cayes, Haiti. Wells and piped networks that people depend on for clean water across the country’s southern peninsula were contaminated or damaged by a combination of ocean storm surge and sewage from the overflowing latrines that are commonly used in rural Haiti. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

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FILE - This September 2015 photo provided by NOAA Fisheries shows an adult female orca, identified as J-16, as she's about to surface with her youngest calf, born earlier in the year, near the San Juan Islands in Washington state's Puget Sound. Whale researchers who track the small endangered population of Puget Sound orcas say three whales are believed dead or missing since summer. The Center for Whale Research says that as of Friday, Oct. 28, 2016, there are only 80 animals. Two females and a 10-month old calf are believed gone. (NOAA Fisheries/Vancouver Aquarium via AP, File)

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Gladys Coego, left, and Tomika Curgil, were charged with voter fraud in Miami-Dade County on Friday, Oct. 28, 2016. (Miami-Dade Corrections via Miami Herald)

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In this Oct. 25, 2016 photo, children collect drinking water from a station set up by Swiss Humanitarian Aid, in Aux Coteaux, a district of Les Cayes, Haiti. Wells and piped networks that people depend on for clean water across the country's southern peninsula were contaminated or damaged by a combination of ocean storm surge and sewage from the overflowing latrines that are commonly used in rural Haiti. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

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Veterinarians work on removing pieces from the carcass of a large male blue whale that washed ashore at Thornton State Beach in Daly City, Calif., Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016. The veterinarians work with the Marine Mammal Center and the California Academy of Sciences. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

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In this Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016 photo, Alabama farmer David Bailey looks out of his truck window at his remaining cows, in Dawson, Ala. He looks at the dirt filled farm where green grass used to be ankle deep, says Bailey. Bailey had to sell off half of his cattle heard, more than 100 animals, because he doesn't have enough hay to feed them through the winter. Some of the South’s most beautiful mountains and valleys are filling with desperation as a worsening drought kills crops, threatens cattle and sinks lakes to their lowest levels in years. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

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Japanese comedian Pikotaro, as he is known, gestures as he performs his viral hit "pen-pineapple-apple-pen" or "PPAP" during a press conference in Tokyo, Friday, Oct. 28, 2016. Pikotaro says he is astonished by the global success of his PPAP song. It has more than 65 million YouTube views and was the first Japanese song in the U.S. Billboard top 100 singles in 26 years. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

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Japanese comedian Pikotaro speaks during a press conference in Tokyo, Friday, Oct. 28, 2016. Pikotaro behind the viral hit “PPAP” said he is astonished by the global success of his “pen-pinapple-apple-pen” song. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

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In this Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016 photo, a sunken boat is exposed by receding water levels on Lake Lanier as U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Natural Resources Manager Nick Baggett looks on in Flowery Branch, Ga. Some of the South's most beautiful mountains and valleys this fall are filled with desperation, as a worsening drought kills crops, threatens cattle and sinks lakes to their lowest levels in years. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

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Alabama Forestry Commission firefighters Jim Junkin, left, and Brad Lang talk about strategies for fighting a wildfire near Brookside, Ala., on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016. Wildfires are burning hundreds of acres of land daily across the South amid a drought. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)

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Brad Lang, a firefighter with the Alabama Forestry Commission, sets a backfire to help extinguish a wildfire near Brookside, Ala., on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016. Wildfires have burned hundreds of acres a day in the South as a drought worsens across much of the region. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)

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In this Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2016 photo, geese swim in the tidal marshland waters adjacent to Oakwood Beach in Staten Island, in New York, four years after Superstorm Sandy's deadly floodwaters coursed through the neighborhood's streets. Oakwood Beach, improbably built on a salt marsh, is slowly being returned to nature after state officials concluded it would be foolish to rebuild in a place with so little protection from the sea. Under a state buyout program, 196 homes have been demolished so far. Another 103 will soon meet the same fate. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

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In this Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2016 photo, Canada geese wade in a puddle at the dead end of Riga Street in the Oakwood Beach neighborhood of Staten Island, where it transitions into a marsh, in New York. Much of the neighborhood was underwater following Superstorm Sandy's deadly storm surge nearly four years ago. Oakwood Beach, improbably built on a salt marsh, is slowly being returned to nature after state officials concluded it would be foolish to rebuild in a place with so little protection from the sea. Under a state buyout program, 196 homes have been demolished so far. Another 103 will soon meet the same fate. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

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Seamus Power, of Ireland, studies his lie the No. 18 green on the first day of the Sanderson Farms Championship in Jackson, Miss., Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)