Environment

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Bridget Anne Kelly, left, former Deputy Chief of Staff for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, listens as her lawyer Michael Critchley talks to reporters after she and Bill Baroni were found guilty on all counts in the George Washington Bridge traffic trial at Martin Luther King, Jr., Federal Court, Friday, Nov. 4, 2016, in Newark, N.J. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

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In this Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016 photo, the 480 B.C. bronze statue of the ancient Greek god of the sea, Poseidon, is displayed at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens. Nearly 200 artefacts excavated all over the country are on show in the darkened temporary exhibition hall of the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, spotlit and blended with music, sounds of waves and creaking ship's blocks, and poetry. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

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FILE - This black and white Nov. 5, 1996 file photo shows the square in front of the Basilica of Santa Croce after the banks of the River Arno overflowed and flooded the city. A Renaissance painting, Giorgio Vasari's “The Last Supper”, that was badly damaged in a 1966 flood in Florence, will be reinstalled in the basilica and unveiled to the public on Friday, Nov. 4, 2016 after years of painstaking restoration. (AP Photo, files)

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U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, gestures before a public television debate on Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016, in Anchorage, Alaska. She faces three challengers in Tuesday’s general election. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)

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FILE - In this June 14, 2016, file photo, Chicago Bears general manager Ryan Pace, left, and head coach John Fox confer after the NFL football team's minicamp at Halas Hall in Lake Forest, Ill. Year 2 under general manager Ryan Pace and coach John Fox isn’t going the way the Chicago Bears envisioned. They hit their bye and the midway point of the season last in the NFC North at 2-6, looking more like a team regressing than one poised for bigger things.(AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

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FILE - This Oct. 17, 2016 file photo shows snow blanketing an area near Serene Lakes in Soda Springs, Calif. The U.S. Drought Monitor says a rainy fall has helped pull nearly one-fourth of California out of the state's five-year drought, Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

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In this Oct. 4, 2016 photo, farmworkers inside a drying barn take down newly-harvested marijuana plants after a drying period, at Los Suenos Farms, America's largest legal open air marijuana farm, in Avondale, southern Colo. During the fall 2016 harvest, the 36-acres at Los Suenos is expected to yield 5 to 6 tons. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

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Bison await their release Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016 on the Wind River Indian Reservation near Morton, Wyo. Ten genetically pure bison from the Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge in Iowa were released on Eastern Shoshone land. (Alan Rogers/The Casper Star-Tribune via AP)

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Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal said he misspoke when he referred to "colored people" during a recent speech in Savannah, but he is standing by his overall message. (FOX 5)

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Safety jackets are thrown to migrants on a rubber dinghy rescued by the vessel Responder, run by the Malta-based NGO Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) and the Italian Red Cross, in the Mediterranean sea, Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016. According to MOAS 147 people, of which 20 women, were rescued. (Francesco Malavolta/MOAS via AP)

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In this Thursday, Aug. 18, 2016, file photo, Uber employees test a self-driving Ford Fusion hybrid car, in Pittsburgh. After taking millions of factory jobs, robots could be coming for a new class of worker: people who drive for a living. (AP Photo/Jared Wickerham, File)

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A sculpture that is part of a new public art installation Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2016, at Alaska Pacific University in Anchorage, Alaska. The exhibit opening Friday, Nov. 4, 2016, features 43 of the statues, which were damaged by tides and high winds last year in another installation at a local beach and have since been restored. (AP Photo/Rachel D'Oro)

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FILE - In this Jan. 14, 1995, file photo, a wolf leaps across a road into the wilds of Central Idaho. Three of four wolves fitted with tracking collars in a central Idaho wilderness area last winter by Idaho officials, despite not having federal authorization to do, so are still alive heading into this winter. (AP Photo/Douglas Pizac, File)

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FILE - In this Nov. 30, 2012 file photo, the Statue of Liberty stands beyond parts of a brick walkway damaged in Superstorm Sandy on Liberty Island in New York. The Associated Press asked 21 risk experts to analyze the presidential campaign and to list what they consider the five biggest threats to the world. Climate change topped the list with 17 mentions, often as the top threat. It was followed by use of nuclear weapons, pandemics, cyberattacks and problems with high technology. Neither Trump’s signature issues of immigration and terrorism nor Clinton’s major concerns, financial insecurity and gun violence, made the list. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

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In this photo taken Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016, participants in a "tree hugging ceremony" gather around an elm tree, believed to be the largest of its kind in New England, before it is cut down in Charlotte, Vt., after the tree died of Dutch elm disease, a fungus that killed millions of elm trees after it arrived in North America in the last century. The wood from the tree will be turned into furniture and other items. The funds will be used to help The Nature Conservancy replant disease resistant elm trees. (Tai Dinnan/Vermont Tree Goods via AP)

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Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike listens to a report during an expert panel at the Tokyo Metropolitan government office in Tokyo, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016. A Tokyo metropolitan government panel reviewing costly Olympic venues has proposed downgrading the expensive rowing and canoeing site for the Tokyo Games to temporary quality, or moving the events to an existing site in northern Japan. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

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FILE - This June 2014, file photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows Debra Hill weighing a New Mexico meadow jumping mouse, which was trapped during survey efforts on the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, N.M. Biologists who spent weeks in three New Mexico national forests searching for signs of the elusive, endangered mouse that looks somewhat like a tiny kangaroo have found what they call irrefutable evidence that it still lives in the state for which it is named. U.S. Forest Service District Ranger Beth Humphrey said Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016, confirming the rodent's existence provides hope that the species can recover over time. (Stacey Stanford/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via AP, File)