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In this Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016, photo, Remi, a dog trained to sniff out sources of water pollution, with handler Karen Reynolds, sniffs a stormwater drain pipe in South Portland, Maine. Many communities across the country are saving time and money by using dogs to find sources of pollution instead of gathering samples to be sent to laboratories for testing. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
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In this Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016, photo, Scott Reynolds of Environmental Canine Systems, left, and Fred Dillon, the stormwater program coordinator for the city of South Portland, Maine, inspect a stormwater drain pipe in South Portland. Remi, a dog trained to sniff out sources of water pollution, with handler Karen Reynolds, rear, detected human fecal bacteria in the pipe. Many communities across the country are saving time and money by using dogs to find sources of pollution instead of gathering samples to be sent to laboratories for testing. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
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FILE -- In this Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016 file photo, Iraqi troops guard a checkpoint near the village of Awsaja, Iraq, as smoke from fires lit by Islamic State militants at oil wells and a sulfur plant fills the air. In the week since Iraq launched an operation to retake Mosul from the Islamic State group, its forces have pushed toward the city from the north, east and south, battling the militants in a belt of mostly uninhabited towns and villages. In the heavily mined approaches to the city they met with fierce resistance, as IS unleashed suicide truck bombs, rockets and mortars. (AP Photo/Adam Schreck, File)
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FILE - In this April 11, 2016 file photo, farmers harvest raw opium at a poppy field in the Zhari district of Kandahar province, Afghanistan. Afghanistan saw an increase of 10 percent in opium poppy cultivation and 91 percent decrease in eradication across the country, according to a new joint survey released by the UN and Afghan government. The report released Sunday, Oct. 23, 2016, showed the total area under cultivation in Afghanistan at an estimated 201,000 hectares (496,681 acres) in 2016, a 10 percent increase from the 183,000 hectares (452,200 acres) in 2015. (AP Photos/Allauddin Khan, File)
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In this undated photo provided by Remote Area Medical, Remote Area Medical founder Stan Brock sits with a young Haitian boy in western Haiti, where RAM is participating in post-Hurricane Matthew relief efforts. (Eric Hutchinson/Remote Area Medical via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS OCT. 22-23 - In this Friday, April 22, 2016, photo, bighorn sheep graze along the roadside in the Big Thompson Canyon near Loveland, Colo. The herd is rebounding after being hit by pneumonia in the late 1990s, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife experts. (Jackie Hutchins/Loveland Reporter-Herald via AP)
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In a May 2016 photo provided by the Maine Forest Service, browntail caterpillars feed in Maine. The caterpillars’ hairs can cause a painful rash in humans. State scientists say it’s difficult to control the spread of the bugs, which has been aided by dry weather. (Maine Forest Servic ACFvia AP)
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A heap of grass and garbage burns in a field on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016. The Indian capital, laboring under the label of being the world's most polluted city, is trying something new to help clean up its air. A smartphone application that allows citizens to report the presence of construction dust or the burning of leaves and garbage in public parks to authorities was launched Friday. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
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In this Aug. 4, 2015 photo, an aerial photo shows the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kan. Since 2009, efforts have been underway to reduced the university's energy costs. KU reduced energy use enough over the past year to meet — and exceed — its overall energy consumption goal, according to the university's most recent campus-wide energy report. (Nick Krug/The Lawrence Journal-World via AP)
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A large tree lays fallen on a house after high winds and heavy rain hit the area and neighborhood, south of Lock Haven, in Clinton County, Pa., Friday, Oct. 21, 2016. Home owner Frank Dwyer, a well known retired school teacher and former principal, died in the incident. A series of storms hopscotched across western and central Pennsylvania overnight, turning roads into rivers, closing schools and damaging homes in communities as far as 150 miles apart. (Lana Muthler/The Express via AP)
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Trey Cocking, the city manager of Atchison, Kan., addresses the media after a chemical incident occurred at the MPG Ingredients plant on Friday Oct. 21, 2016, in Atchison, Kan. The Kansas Department of Emergency Management said multiple people who suffered respiratory problems because of the noxious cloud that formed were taken to hospitals. (Dougal Brownlie/The St. Joseph News-Press via AP)
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This image provided by the U.S. Navy, taken Oct. 17, 2016, shows the guided missile destroyer USS Decatur, right, pulling into position behind the Military Sealift Command USNS Matthew Perry, during a replenishment-at-sea, seen from the bridge of the guided-missile destroyer USS Spruance, in the South China Sea. The Defense Department says a U.S. Navy warship has conducted a freedom of navigation operation in the South China Sea, where China and five other countries have competing territorial claims. A department spokesman, Navy Cmdr. Gary Ross, said the destroyer ship USS Decatur conducted the transit operation Friday, Oct. 21, 2016, near the Paracel Islands. (U.S. Navy/Petty Officer 2nd Class Will Gaskill via AP)
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A man carries a girl brave the wind on the waterfront of Victoria Habour as Typhoon Haima approaches Hong Kong, Friday, Oct. 21, 2016. Typhoon Haima churned toward southern China on Friday after smashing into the northern Philippines with ferocious wind and rain, triggering flooding, landslides and power outages. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
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A man braves the wind on the waterfront of Victoria Habour as Typhoon Haima approaches Hong Kong, Friday, Oct. 21, 2016. Typhoon Haima churned toward southern China on Friday after smashing into the northern Philippines with ferocious wind and rain, triggering flooding, landslides and power outages. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
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A resident carries a sack of rice after Super Typhoon Haima destroyed his home and caused flooding at Vigan township, Ilocos Sur province in northern Philippines Thursday, Oct. 20, 2016. Super Typhoon Haima slammed into the northeastern Philippine coast late Wednesday with ferocious winds and rain that rekindled fears and memories from the catastrophe wrought by Typhoon Haiyan in 2013. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
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A man wades through a flooded highway at the height of Super Typhoon Haima that lashes Narvacan township, Ilocos Sur province in northern Philippines Thursday, Oct. 20, 2016. Super Typhoon Haima slammed into the northeastern Philippine coast late Wednesday with ferocious winds and rain that rekindled fears and memories from the catastrophe wrought by Typhoon Haiyan in 2013. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
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FILE - This Oct. 1, 2016, file photo provided by the National Transportation Safety Board shows damage done to the Hoboken Terminal in Hoboken, N.J., after the Sept. 29 commuter train crash. Lawmakers investigating New Jersey Transit are expected to focus on the role modern safety technology could have played in preventing last month's deadly crash. Friday's hearing on Oct. 21, 2016, in Trenton comes after an Associated Press report found that NJ Transit had more accidents and paid more safety fines than any other commuter railroad since 2011. (Chris O'Neil/NTSB photo via AP, File)
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This Monday, Oct. 17, 2016, photo shows coal ash floating on the Neuse River in Goldsboro, N.C. Conservationists and regulators are at odds over how much coal ash was swept away by flooding during Hurricane Matthew - state inspectors say it would fit in the bed of a pickup truck while Waterkeeper Alliance, a watchdog group, argues it's a much larger spill. (Peter Harrison/Waterkeeper Alliance via AP)
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Bao Bao will leave the Smithsonian's National Zoo, where she has been charming visitors since her birth on Aug. 23, 2013. As one of fewer than 2,000 giant pandas in the world, she will enter a breeding program in China. (Associated Press)
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In this Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016 photo, Father Ryan Higdon, right, and co-owner of New Republic Brewing John Januskey pose during a portrait session, at New Republic Brewing in College Station, Texas. (Timothy Hurst /College Station Eagle via AP)
