Environment

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Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., speaks during the opening day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Monday, July 18, 2016. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

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Burning Book Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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A bulldozer pushes a dead humpback whale that washed ashore at Dockweiler Beach into the ocean along the Los Angeles coast on Friday, July 1, 2016. The whale floated in Thursday evening. It is approximately 40 feet long and is believed to have been between 10 to 30 years old. Marine animal authorities will try to determine why the animal died. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

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Jessica Simpson as Daisy Duke in the 2005 film version of ‘The Dukes of Hazzard.’

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Indiana Gov. Mike Pence is widely thought to be Donald Trump's choice for running mate. Republicans say the Indiana governor would be unifying, and some called him a "conservative's conservative." (Associated Press Photographs)

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A U.S. Marine tests DARPA's Legged Squad Support System. (Facebook, DARPA, U.S. Marine Corps)

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"The attorneys general have appointed themselves to decide what is valid and what is invalid regarding climate change," House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith of Texas said at a press conference with other committee Republicans. "The attorneys general are pursuing a political agenda at the expense of scientists' right to free speech." (Associated Press)

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The entrance area to the Skull Island: Reign of Kong attraction at Universal's Islands of Adventure theme park. (Photograp by Jacquie Kubin/Special to The Washington Times)

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FILE - This April 28, 2010 file photo shows the Colstrip Steam Electric Station, a coal-fired power plant in Colstrip, Mont. The Colstrip plant, a coal plant serving utility customers across the Pacific Northwest, has agreed to shut down two of its four units by 2022 under a settlement announced Tuesday, July 12, 2016, with environmentalists who sued over alleged air pollution violations. (AP Photo/Matt Brown, file)

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Governments anxiously await a tribunal's ruling on China's territorial claims in the South China Sea, a hotly contested area that may serve as a beachhead against Chinese expansion in the region. (Associated Press)

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Illustration on the meeting of urban and rural gun use by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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U.S. Marine Corps 2nd Lt. Daniel Mora trains at the Jungle Warfare Training Center on Camp Gonsalves, Okinawa, Japan, Aug. 21, 2009. (U.S. Marine Corps) ** FILE **

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This photo provided by the Boulder County Sheriff's Office shows Zackary Ryan Kuykendall. Kuykendall and another man from Alabama have been arrested in connection with a wildfire that has destroyed at least three homes and three buildings north of Nederland in Boulder County. (Boulder County Sheriff's Office via AP)