Environment

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Rainier Rodriguez, 42, hangs his ties to dry on a makeshift clothes-line inside his home damaged 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. Nearly 380,000 people were evacuated and measures were taken to protect infrastructure. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

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In this photo taken Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016, a woman fills a plastic bag with potatoes at a Chinatown produce stand in San Francisco. California voters are considering a November referendum that would uphold or overturn a statewide ban on single-use plastic carryout bags, and another ballot initiative that would require fees collected from retail customers for alternative bags be put in an environmental fund. In 2007, San Francisco banned plastic shopping bags, setting off a movement that’s led to nearly half the state and its biggest cities to do the same. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

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In a photo from Oct. 5, 2016, Kyle Wright, a senior at Kennedy High School in Taylor, Mich., stands outside a greenhouse at the school that will get a makeover with a $30,000 state grant. The greenhouse has been in disrepair for years, and Wright hopes to revive it to grow vegetables for needy families. (AP Photo/Ed White)

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FILE - This Aug. 20, 2008 file photo shows Dino Cortopassi, a wealthy farmer who raises crops in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, with his dog "Tank," at his Black Hole Habitat near Thornton, Calif. Cortopassi is a backer of Proposition 53 on the November ballot, in which voters would be required to approve any projects that would require more than $2 billion in state revenue bonds to fund, an idea that could complicate the future of two of Gov. Jerry Brown’s favored projects; a plan to build two giant twin tunnels to ship Northern California water south and to build a high-speed rail system. Critics say it could also jeopardize dozens of smaller, local projects. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

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FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2016 file photo, a truck carries a load at the Nucor Steel plant in Seattle. Voters in Washington state will weigh in on Initiative 732 in the 2016 election as they consider whether to approve the nation’s first direct carbon tax on the burning of fossil fuels. The plant is among those likely to be affected if the carbon tax is passed. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, file)

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FILE - In this April 2, 2010, file photo, a Tesoro Corp. refinery, including a gas flare flame that is part of normal plant operations, is shown in Anacortes, Wash. after a fatal overnight fire and explosion. Voters in Washington state will weigh in on Initiative 732 in the 2016 election as they consider whether to approve the nation’s first direct carbon tax on the burning of fossil fuels. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

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Yoleine Casimir stands in her destroyed house caused by Hurricane Matthew, in Jeremie, Haiti. Saturday Oct. 8, 2016. Aid has begun pouring into the hard-hit town, where thousands of homes were damaged or destroyed and many people were running low on food and facing an increased risk for cholera. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

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A woman holds her boy who's suffering cholera in the state hospital after Hurricane Matthew, in Jeremie, Haiti. Saturday Oct. 8, 2016. Aid has begun pouring into the hard-hit town, where thousands of homes were damaged or destroyed and many people were running low on food and facing an increased risk for cholera. ( AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND Oct. 8-9, 2016 AND THEREAFTER - In this Sept. 27, 2016 photo, lettering and an eagle carving are displayed on the side of the Totem Heritage Center in Ketchikan, Alaska. For the past four decades, the center has worked to preserve Native totem poles and artifacts from around Southeast Alaska. The center, celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, was founded after a group of Native elders started talking in the 1960s and expressed concern about the state of totem poles in the region. (Taylor Balkom/Ketchikan Daily News via AP)

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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND OCT. 8-9, 2016 AND THEREAFTER - In this Sept. 28, 2016 photo, a platform for light-penetrating stairs sits atop the river bank on the south side of the Kenai River and Russian River confluence near Cooper Landing, Alaska. Work to restore the riverbank along a section of the confluence of the Kenai and Russian rivers is in full swing. Vegetation and light-penetrating stairways are being installed downstream on the Kenai River’s south shore to provide anglers access to the water in a less damaging way. (Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion via AP)

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Rain from Hurricane Matthew falls on the flooded intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd and Victory Drive Friday, Oct. 7, 2016, in Savannah, Ga. (Josh Galemore/Savannah Morning News via AP)

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Greece's players celebrate a second goal against Cyprus' during their World Cup Group H qualifying soccer match at Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium, in Piraeus port, near Athens, on Friday, Oct. 7, 2016. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)

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Boats are safely stored at Atlantic Marine in Wrightsville Beach, N.C., Friday, Oct. 7, 2016, as Hurricane Matthew moves up the southeast coast. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

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Cho Tak Wong, chairman of the Fuyao Group, speaks during the grand opening of the Fuyao Glass America plant, Friday, Oct. 7, 2016, in Moraine, Ohio. The Chinese company is ready to show off its completed automotive glass-making plant in Ohio, which serves as its North American hub for recycled glass manufacturing. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

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Cho Tak Wong, chairman of the Fuyao Group, applauds during the grand opening of the Fuyao Glass America plant, Friday, Oct. 7, 2016, in Moraine, Ohio. The Chinese company is ready to show off its completed automotive glass-making plant in Ohio, which serves as its North American hub for recycled glass manufacturing. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

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The Island, situated in the middle of Cove Palisades State Park in central Oregon, is home to the best known, least disturbed example of native juniper and sagebrush in the region. Designated as a National Natural Landmark, The Island is off-limits to the public. (Jamie Hale/The Oregonian via AP)

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US Deputy Secretary of Defence Robert Work, attends a media conference with chief of staff of the Finnish Ministry of Defence Jussi Niinisto, in Helsinki, Finland, Friday Oct. 7, 2016. Finland and the United States have signed a bilateral defense cooperation pact pledging closer military collaboration at the time when the Nordic country is increasingly concerned over Russia's activities in the Baltic Sea region. (Jussi Nukari / Lehtikuva via AP) FINLAND OUT - NO SALES

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Preston Payne tires to hold his umbrella as he watches the waves near the Tybee pier as Hurricane Matthew makes its way up the East Coast, Friday, Oct. 7, 2016, on Tybee Island, Ga. Authorities warned that the danger was far from over, with hundreds of miles of coastline in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina still under threat of torrential rain and dangerous storm surge as the most powerful hurricane to menace the Atlantic Seaboard in over a decade pushed north. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton)

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The Savannah Theater is empty before Hurricane Matthew hits on Friday, Oct. 7, 2016 in Savannah, Ga. As the storm closed in, an estimated 2 million people in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina were warned to move inland to escape the fury of the most powerful hurricane to menace the U.S. Atlantic coast in more than a decade. (Steve Bisson/Savannah Morning News via AP)