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Former Vice President Al Gore is interviewed by The Associated Press in Nashville, Tenn., on Nov. 9, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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FILE - In this Nov. 23, 2012 file photo, gas company workers stand where a building once stood, which was leveled by an explosion in downtown Springfield, Mass. New or replaced gas service lines for apartments and small businesses across the United States must be equipped with inexpensive safety valves starting next year following deadly fires and explosions over decades that could have been avoided, the Obama administration announced Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016. (Don Treeger/The Republican via AP, File)
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FILE - In this Oct. 15, 2014 photo, an American flag waves from a makeshift flag pole in front of a concrete slab that once was a house in Louisville, Miss. The April 28 tornado that destroyed the house, also heavily damaged the particle board and plywood industries in the background. The federal government says the city of Louisville should repay a $25.4 million grant awarded for recovery from a 2014 tornado. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
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In this Oct. 10, 2016 photo, Rhonda Williams of Cudjoe Key, Fla., has her Yorkie named Riley examined by Natalie Wendling, a veterinarian with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, at a roadside checkpoint in Key Largo, Fla. Agriculture officials are checking all animals exiting the keys for signs of New World screwworm. The parasite has killed dozens of endangered deer in the Florida Keys and officials hope to stop screwworm from spreading to livestock and pets on the mainland. (AP Photo/ Jennifer Kay)
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Illustration on hurricanes The Washington Times
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Al Gore is campaigning for Hillary Clinton to push for action on climate change, but he also may touch on his 2000 campaign loss, analysts say. (Associated Press)
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A fire worker works to contain a wildfire that broke out on Bone Dry Road in Kimberly, Ala., on Monday, Oct. 10, 2016. Forestry officials are banning outside burning across most of Alabama because of fast-spreading wildfires. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
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In a Sept. 27, 2016 photo, Rob Mies, executive director of the Organization for Bat Conservation at the Cranbrook Institute of Science in Bloomfield Hills, holds "Tess," a female Big Brown Bat, next to his i-Pad with an attached bat detector, right, which detects echo location or high-pitched sound waves that bats use to fly and navigate at night. Mies says there are certain species of bats in Michigan that are being threatened by white-nose syndrome, a fungus that affects and kills bats in the cold environments where they hibernate. Massive wind turbines and the huge loss of bat’s habitat are also threatening the winged animals. (Todd McInturf, The Detroit News via AP)
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Republican vice presidential candidate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence speaks during a campaign stop at the the Rossford Recreation Center in Rossford, Ohio, Friday, Oct. 7, 2016. (Nick Thomas/The Blade via AP)
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Republican vice presidential candidate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence speaks during a campaign stop at the the Rossford Recreation Center in Rossford, Ohio, Friday, Oct. 7, 2016. (Nick Thomas/The Blade via AP)
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks during a campaign stop in Coral Springs, Fla., Friday, Sept. 30, 2016. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Illustration on a National Park Service land grab in Maine by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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Flight 93 Heading for Disaster Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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Flight 93 Heading for Disaster Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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A man walks across a road damaged by floodwaters caused by rain from Hurricane Matthew in Fayetteville, N.C., Sunday, Oct. 9, 2016. Hurricane Matthew's torrential rains triggered severe flooding in North Carolina on Sunday as the deteriorating storm made its exit to the sea, and thousands of people had to be rescued from their homes and cars. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
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In this Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2016 photo, a tugboat and barge travel south on the Hudson River in Stuyvesant, N.Y. A group of citizens, lawmakers and environmentalists is fighting a proposal to establish more than 40 commercial anchorages at locations along a stretch of the Hudson River running north from New York City. Shipping industry officials said they need safe places to anchor, sometimes for days, barges hauling North Dakota crude oil to East Coast refineries and export terminals. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
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Residents clean a street muddied by the heavy rains brought by Hurricane Matthew in Baracoa, Cuba, Friday, Oct. 7, 2016. Matthew hit Cuba's lightly populated eastern tip Tuesday night, damaging hundreds of homes in the easternmost city of Baracoa but there were no reports of deaths. Water and electricity were restored to much of the town Friday. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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A vehicle is submerged after Hurricane Matthew caused flooding on Saturday Oct. 8, 2016 in Charleston, S.C. Matthew continued its march along the Atlantic coast Saturday, lashing two of the South's most historic cities and some of its most popular resort islands, flattening trees, swamping streets and knocking out power to hundreds of thousands. (Michael Pronzato/The Post And Courier via AP)
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In this photo provided by the Mystic Aquarium, shows a manatee getting rescued off the coast of Cape Cod, Mass. Connecticut's Mystic Aquarium has been rehabilitating the manatee and has gotten permission from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to allow public viewing of the marine animal Saturday, Oct. 8, 2016 and Sunday during regular hours. (Mystic Aquarium via AP)
