Environment

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In this artist impression provided by the European Space Agency, ESA, the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter , TGO, right, and its entry, descent and landing demonstrator module, Schiaparelli, center, approaching Mars. The separation is scheduled to occur on Sunday Oct. 16, 2016, about seven months after launch. Schiaparelli is set to enter the martian atmosphere on Oct. 19, 2016 while TGO will enter orbit around Mars. The probe will take images of Mars and conduct scientific measurements on the surface, but its main purpose is to test technology for a future European Mars rover. Schiaparelli's mother ship will remain in orbit to analyze gases in the Martian atmosphere to help answer whether there is or was life on Mars. (ESA ATG/medialab via AP)

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CORRECTS LOCATION OF FIRE SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, CALIFORNIA - Hand crews finish up work on the Emerald Fire along Highway 89, Friday, Oct. 14, 2016 on the southwest shores of Lake Tahoe. The blaze that burned about 200 acres northwest of South Lake Tahoe, California was one of three wind-whipped wildfires burning along the Sierra Nevada. The largest one destroyed more than 20 homes in a rural valley between Carson City and Reno, Nevada. (Randall Benton/The Sacramento Bee via AP)

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Florida State running back Jacques Patrick (9) picks up eleven yards against Wake Forest's Brad Watson, left, Cameron Glenn, bottom, and Marquel Lee in the first half of an NCAA college football game in Tallahassee, Fla., Saturday, Oct. 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Mark Wallheiser)

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In this Friday, Oct. 14, 2016 photo, an Orbital ATK Antares rocket carrying the Cygnus spacecraft is raised into the vertical position on launch Pad-0A at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The Sunday, Oct. 16, 2016 scheduled cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station would be the company’s first Antares launch since an explosion seconds after liftoff in 2014, which destroyed the rocket and space station supply ship, and damaged the launch complex. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)

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United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, center left, walks with Haiti's Prime Minister Enex Jean-Charles after arriving at the airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Saturday, Oct. 15, 2016. Ban Ki-moon arrived to see firsthand a sliver of the extensive damage and destruction left by Hurricane Matthew. (AP Photo/Ben Finley)

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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS - In this Wednesday Oct. 5, 2016, photo, Phoenix School students take measurements of the water quality of Deer Creek in Roseburg, Ore. During the past five years, Phoenix School students have worked to restore Deer Creek, removing invasive plant species and planting native species in the area through a $78,653 grant. (Michael Sullivan/The News-Review via AP)

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This Sept. 28, 2016 photo shows the White Cliffs reflect off the Missouri river in Montana. It's been 40 years since Montana has added any Wild and Scenic Rivers, a point river advocates are trying to change and get the East Rosebud Creek added by year's end. (Kurt Wilson /The Missoulian via AP)

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U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R, right, prepares for a debate Friday, Oct. 13, 2016, with Democratic challenger Russ Feingold, a former U.S. senator, at the studios of WLUK Fox 11 in Green Bay, Wisc. (Sarah Kloepping /The Green Bay Press-Gazette via AP)

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Kentucky's Derek Willis shoots during the team's Big Blue Madness on Friday, Oct. 14, 2016, in Lexington, Ky. (AP Photo/James Crisp)

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FILE - In this March 14, 2016, file photo, Anaheim Ducks center Rickard Rakell skates during an NHL hockey game against the New Jersey Devils in Anaheim, Calif. Rakell agreed to a six-year, $22.8 million deal Friday, Oct. 14, 2016, to stay with the Ducks. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson, File)

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Elmer McDonald makes his way along a flooded street as he returns to his mobile home for the first time to inspect damage caused by floodwaters associated with Hurricane Matthew in Lumberton, N.C., on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016. McDonald and about 1,200 other Lumberton residents had to be evacuated by boat or plucked from their roofs by helicopters as the river crested. (AP Photo/Brian Blanco)

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FILE - In this Oct. 18, 2014 file photo, pheasant hunters work an area of grassy cover at the Waterfowl Production Area land near Colman, S.D. Pheasant hunting season opens Saturday Oct. 15, 2016 in South Dakota, a state known far and wide for its bounty of the prized upland game bird. The season draws hunters from around the world, and it rarely disappoints. (Joe Ahlquist /The Argus Leader via AP, File)

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FILE - In this Dec. 1, 2014, file photo, visitors walk toward an entrance to The Breakers mansion in Newport, R.I. Preservationists, architects and dozens of members of the Vanderbilt family have taken out an ad in a newspaper in hopes of quashing a plan to build a visitors center at The Breakers estate in Newport. The ad, which ran Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016, in Newport This Week, says the plan would "desecrate The Breakers landscape" and "permanently mar this national symbol of Newport's Gilded Age." (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

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Residents use their boats to get through flood waters from the North East Cape Fear River in the Riverbend Subdivision off Hwy 53 Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016. Flood waters from Hurricane Matthew are starting to crest in Burgaw, N.C. along Hwy 53 but are still heading down river towards Wilmington. (Ken Blevins/The Star-News via AP)

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FILE - In this Sept. 6, 2014 file photo, a wall of dust moves across a freeway in Phoenix. Arizona Department of Transportation engineers are beginning design work on a dust detection and warning system for Interstate 10 between Tucson and Phoenix where dust storms often develop suddenly. (AP Photo/Katie Oyan, File)

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In this photo taken Nov. 28, 2014, construction on a new unloading dock is underway at Tri Marine International's Samoa Tuna Processors Inc., plant under construction in the U.S. territory of American Samoa. In a statement, Tri Marine says it will end production indefinitely at its Samoa Tuna Processors cannery plant. The company’s 800 employees were informed of the plan Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016. The company didn’t specify how many will be affected. (AP Photo/Fili Sagapolutele)

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FILE - In this March 9, 2012 file photo, Indiana Sen. Brent Steele, R-Bedford, speaks at the Statehouse in Indianapolis. Steele said he wants to preserve hunting rights for Indiana residents. Voters in Indiana will decide if the constitution should be amended to provide the right to hunt, fish, and harvest wildlife "shall be forever preserved for the public good, subject only to the laws prescribed by the General Assembly and rules prescribed by virtue of the authority of the General Assembly to: promote wildlife conservation and management; and preserve the future of hunting and fishing." (AP Photo/Tom Strickland, file)

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This photo released Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016, by Rensselaer Polytechnic shows a rock heated by cosmic crash56 million years ago that set off massive warming. Scientists have found evidence of a comet or asteroid smacking Earth 56 million years ago, just about the time the planet started mysterious massive warming. Could the crash and heating be connected? The issue divides scientists but may be important for understanding present climate change. (Rensselaer Polytechnic via AP)

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This undated photo provided by the Houston Police Department shows Crenshanda Williams of Houston. Williams, a Houston 911 operator accused of hanging up on thousands of emergency calls, was charged Oct. 5, 2016, with two counts of interference with an emergency telephone call. (Houston Police Department via AP)

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FILE - In this Jan. 7, 2014, file photo, Denver Walker, of Somerset Fuels, makes a heating oil delivery to a home in Jenner Crossroads, Pa. On Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016, the Energy Department said that household bills from October through March are likely to be higher for all four main heating fuels: natural gas, electricity, heating oil and propane. (John Rucosky/The Tribune-Democrat via AP, File)