Environment

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This Oct. 6, 2016, photo provided by the St. Augustine Alligator Farm and Zoological Park shows a marabou stork in a restroom at the facility in St. Augustine, Fla. The zoo said it moved all of its birds and mammals inside ahead of Hurricane Matthew's arrival. (Gen Anderson/St. Augustine Alligator Farm and Zoological Park via AP)

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Gunilla Lindberg, the head of IOC’s coordination commission for the 2018 Games, speaks during a news conference in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Friday, Oct. 7, 2016. (Park Young-seo/Yonhap via AP)

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Residents and vehicles avoid a downed tree and power cable along a flooded roadway in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew in Nassau, Bahamas, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016. The head of the Bahamas National Emergency Management Authority, Capt. Stephen Russell, said there were many downed trees and power lines, but no reports of casualties. (AP Photo/Tim Aylen)

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Residents repair their homes destroyed by Hurricane Matthew in Les Cayes, Haiti, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016. Two days after the storm rampaged across the country's remote southwestern peninsula, authorities and aid workers still lack a clear picture of what they fear is the country's biggest disaster in years. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

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Saint Anne church lays totally destroyed by Hurricane Matthew in Camp Perrin, a district of Les Cayes, Haiti, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016. Two days after the storm rampaged across the country's remote southwestern peninsula, authorities and aid workers still lack a clear picture of what they fear is the country's biggest disaster in years. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

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This photo taken June 24, 2016, shows workers using a lift to scale the exterior the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope at the summit of Haleakala. Hawaii's Supreme Court on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016, affirmed a permit to build a solar telescope on a Maui mountain. The ruling denies a challenge by a group seeking to protect the sacredness of the summit of Haleakala. The University of Hawaii followed proper procedure for an environmental assessment, the Supreme Court also ruled in a separate ruling. (Matthew Thayer/The News via AP)

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Chris Evilia, director of the Waco Metropolitan Planning Organization, walks past the recently completed traffic circle, Friday, Sept. 30, 2016, in Waco, Texas. Transportation officials say modern traffic circles are becoming more common in new construction because they can reduce wrecks and lower maintenance cost. (Rod Aydelotte /Waco Tribune-Herald via AP)

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ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY OCT. 9 AND THEREAFTER - In a Friday, Sept. 30, 2016 photo, motorisst make their way around the recently completed traffic circle, in Waco, Texas. Transportation officials say modern traffic circles are becoming more common in new construction because they can reduce wrecks and lower maintenance cost. (Rod Aydelotte/Waco Tribune-Herald via AP)

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FILE - In this Sept. 25, 2001 file photo, a crop dusting plane from Blair Air Service dusts cotton crops in Lemoore, Calif. California will tighten rules on how much farmers can use a common pesticide listed by the nation's most productive agricultural state as a chemical known to cause cancer. (AP Photo/Gary Kazanjian, File)

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In this Aug. 27, 2016, photo, a cow eats grasses after getting a medical check-up by the Society for Animal Refugee & Environment post Nuclear Disaster at Komaru Ranch in Namie town, 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) north of the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant. Ranchers who refused a government order to kill their cows continue to feed and tend about 200 of them as part of a study by the researchers. They visit every three months to test the livestock living within a 20-kilometer (12-mile) radius of the Fukushima plant, where three reactors had core meltdowns after it was swamped by a tsunami in 2011. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

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Tim Scott

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John Stonestreet photographed in his home office, Colorado Springs, CO, for World Magazine interview assignment from Genesis Photo agency.

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File - In this April 4, 2013, file photo, a dragline excavator moves rocks above a coal seam at the Spring Creek Mine in Decker, Mont. U.S. officials have approved a 117 million-ton expansion of a Montana coal mine after concluding that burning the fuel would have a minor impact on the nation’s overall greenhouse gas emissions. Federal mining officials said in documents made public Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016, that burning coal from the Spring Creek Mine would generate roughly 160 million tons of carbon dioxide over the next five years. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

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In this Monday, Sept. 26, 2016 photo, a golden eagle rides the thermal updrafts over the Big Belt Mountains near Townsend, Mont. Golden eagles, hawks and falcons utilize the powerful updraft winds along tall mountain ridges during their annual fall migration to warmer climates. (Rion Sanders/The Great Falls Tribune via AP)

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CORRECTS DAY OF WEEK TO THURSDAY, NOT WEDNESDAY - This GOES East satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), shows Hurricane Matthew moving northwest of Cuba towards the Atlantic coast of southern Florida, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016. Matthew was upgraded to a Category 4 hurricane late Thursday morning, with top sustained winds of 140 mph. The storm was blamed for more than 100 deaths in Haiti alone, and officials in Florida urged residents of the Sunshine State to prepare for what could be widespread and massive damage. (NOAA via AP)

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FILE - In this Jan. 23, 2015 file photo, airplane contrails are reflected in a building as they cross the early morning sky above Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington. The United Nations' aviation arm has ratified an agreement to control global warming emissions from international airline flights. It is the first climate-change pact to set limits on a single, global industry. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

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Elizabeth Holmes, founder and CEO of Theranos, speaks at the Fortune Global Forum in San Francisco on Nov. 2, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

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In this Sept. 13, 2016 photo, farmer Sam McCullough uses his combine to harvest quinoa near Sequim, Wash. Quinoa, a trendy South American grain, barely has a foothold in American agriculture, but a handful of farmers and university researchers are working toward changing that. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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FILE - In this April 25, 2014, file photo, Bryant Gobble, left, embraces his wife, Sherry Gobble, right, as they look from their yard across an ash pond full of dead trees toward Duke Energy's Buck Steam Station in Dukeville, N.C. Duke Energy has agreed to remove millions of tons of coal ash containing toxic heavy metals from a power plant in North Carolina. The nation’s largest electricity company announced Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016 that it would dig up three huge pits of water-logged ash at the Buck Steam Station near Salisbury. The ash will be dried and either offered for use in making concrete or moved to lined landfills elsewhere. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File)

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A heavily damaged duplex home is seen after an explosion Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016, in Trenton, N.J. Authorities say an apparent explosion damaged the duplex home, but it's not yet clear what caused the blast. Authorities say two people were taken to a hospital for evaluations, but further details on their conditions were not immediately available. The blast came one day after a similar incident in Paterson, N.J. Two multifamily houses were destroyed in that explosion, which officials say may have been caused by a gas leak. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)