Environment

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In this March 11, 2016, photo, the bank erosion from the Missouri River at Double Ditch Indian Village, northwest of Bismarck, N.D., on Highway 1804, has expanded to damage a walking path and burial grounds. The process needed to obtain a federal permit for a project to alleviate erosion of native burial grounds at the Double Ditch Indian Village State Historic Site might delay construction until spring. A state historic preservation official says that would be concerning. (Mike McCleary/The Bismarck Tribune via AP)

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FILE - In this Tuesday Aug. 30, 2016, file photo, West Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jim Justice, right, speaks with members of the media after a roundtable discussion with representatives from various social work and mental health agencies, in Charleston, W.Va. On Friday, Sept. 30, 2016, federal officials announced that they've reached a settlement requiring $5 million in upgrades to prevent further pollution by Appalachian coal mines owned by Justice. The Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Justice announced the settlement with Southern Coal Corporation and 26 affiliates on Friday. (Christian Tyler Randolph/Charleston Gazette-Mail via AP, File)

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A model of orbiter Rosetta hangs from the ceiling in a conference room at the European Space Agency ESA in Darmstadt, Germany, Friday, Sept. 30, 2016. Rosetta will be impacted on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on Friday, marking the end of the twelve years lasting Rosetta mission. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

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In this Sept. 2016 photo provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a glass squid that was found off the coast of Hawaii's Big Island is shown. Federal researchers just returned from an expedition to study the biodiversity and mechanisms of an unusually rich deep-sea ecosystem off the coast of Hawaii. (NOAA via AP)

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FILE - In this undated file photo provided by NOAA Fisheries, NOAA researchers pour a sample of sea water containing a brownish toxic algae into a jar aboard a research vessel off the Washington Coast. A new study finds that unusually warm Pacific Ocean temperatures helped cause a massive toxic algae bloom last year that closed lucrative fisheries from California to British Columbia and disrupted marine life from seabirds to sea lions, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016. Scientists linked the patch of warm ocean water, nicknamed the "blob," to the vast ribbon of toxic algae that flourished in 2015. (NOAA Fisheries via AP, File)

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This image, taken Sept. 12, 2016, shows one of the islands on Waldo Lake in Oregon. The islands, large and small, can be visited for day use but visitors cannot camp there. (Zach Urness/Statesman-Journal via AP)

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A map of earthquake faults in part of Southern California is seen as a sample of an earthquake early warning system the state that is under development is displayed on a television monitor in the background, during a news conference Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016, in Rancho Cordova, Gov. Jerry Brown has signed legislation to develop a statewide earthquake early warning system in California, after devoting $10 million to the program in the state budget he signed this year. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

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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 is moving to ban farmers from spraying pesticides into the air near schools and day care centers under a newly proposed rule that will be among the nation's toughest, regulators told The Associated Press on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016. (AP Photo/Gary Kazanjian, File)

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FILE - This file frame grab from a cellphone shows an emergency alert along with a news alert on Monday, Sept. 19, 2016, about a man wanted in connection with explosions in the New York City metropolitan area. The federal government is beefing up emergency cellphone alerts like the one used in New York to advertise the search for the bombing suspect. The Federal Communications Commission approved a measure Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016, that will let messages be up to four times longer than the current 90-character limit, and cellphone companies will have to support Spanish messages under the new rules. The changes will also let officials target messages more narrowly and include links in messages. (AP Photo/File)

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New Jersey Environmental Protection Commissioner Bob Martin, left; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Lt. Col. Michael Bliss, center; and Toms River, N.J,. Mayor Thomas Kelaher, right, hold a news conference in Toms River, N.J. on Thursday Sept. 29, 2016 to announce that bids have been solicited for a massive sand dune project to protect the part of the New Jersey shoreline that was hardest hit by Superstorm Sandy in 2012. The work is due to begin in the spring. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)

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In this September 2016 photo, Clarence Laub poses on his farm in Elgin, N.D. Laub said the experimental hemp he grew on his farm was more interesting than other crops and had a surprisingly good yield, considering some planting difficulties. He's one of five growers who participated in an experimental program through the state Agriculture Department. (Lauren Donovan/The Bismarck Tribune via AP)

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In this Sept. 23, 2016 photo, Brett Foster, a junior studying forestry at Michigan State University, stands next to the base of a 350-year-old tree felled in July 2016, in East Lansing, Mich. The remains of the tree will likely be repurposed as part of the MSU Shadows program. (RJ Wolcott /Lansing State Journal via AP)

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In this Sept. 22, 2016 photo, the remains of a more than 3 century-old tree located on Michigan State University's campus are shown, in East Lansing, Mich. The tree stood tall nearly 200 years before the university welcomed its first students. (RJ Wolcott /Lansing State Journal via AP)

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Terry Zoller, the bridge construction manager for St. Croix Crossing project, checks the progress of the bridge being built over the St. Croix River in Stillwater, Minn. on Friday, Sept. 16, 2016. Construction of the most expensive highway project in Minnesota’s history began in 2013. The new four-lane bridge will replace the aging Stillwater Lift Bridge as the main Minnesota-Wisconsin crossing north of Interstate 94. (Jean Pieri/Pioneer Press via AP)

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Water continues to flow into a large sinkhole on the Mosaic Co. property shown in this aerial photo Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016, in Mulberry, Fla. Neighbors of the huge sinkhole sending cascades of contaminated water and fertilizer plant waste into Florida's main drinking-water aquifer are fearful and fuming that it took weeks for them to be notified about the disaster. Many are still waiting anxiously for results from tests for radiation and toxic chemicals in their well water. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

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Water continues to flow into a large sinkhole on the Mosaic Co. property shown in this aerial photo Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016, in Mulberry, Fla. Neighbors of the huge sinkhole sending cascades of contaminated water and fertilizer plant waste into Florida's main drinking-water aquifer are fearful and fuming that it took weeks for them to be notified about the disaster. Many are still waiting anxiously for results from tests for radiation and toxic chemicals in their well water. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

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FILE - This aerial Friday, Sept. 16, 2016, file photo shows a sinkhole in Mulberry, Fla., that opened up underneath a gypsum stack at a Mosaic phosphate fertilizer plant. Florida Gov. Rick Scott has issued an emergency rule requiring public notification of pollution events within 24 hours, a move that comes after it took weeks to notify local residents about the fertilizer plant that leaked millions of gallons of contaminated water into a major aquifer, according to a news release Monday, Sept. 26. (Jim Damaske/Tampa Bay Times via AP, File)

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Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike looks over a report during an expert panel at the Tokyo Metropolitan government office in Tokyo Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016. The panel, launched by Koike raised concerns about ever-growing unofficial cost estimates and burden on the city and its taxpayers, warned that total cost for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic could exceed 3 trillion yen ($30 billion) unless they take drastic cost-cutting measures. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

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FILE - This July 23, 2014 file photo shows the Milky Way galaxy on a moonless night from a cattle pasture in the Sand Hills of Nebraska. Our solar system lies at the edge of a structure called the Local Arm or the Orion Spur, and according to a paper released Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2016, researchers calculated that it stretches more than 20,000 light-years long, maybe about four times what scientists had thought before. (Travis Heying/The Wichita Eagle via AP)

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Troy Police and the Department of Environmental Conservation are investigating the stealing of a National Grid vehicle and its discovery in the water at Hudson River at Lock 8 on Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2016, in Troy, N.Y. State police divers have recovered a body from the Hudson River in upstate New York where a utility company dump truck plunged into the water after a police pursuit. (Skip Dickstein/Times Union via AP)