Environment

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FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2016 file photo, the Space Needle is seen in view of still standing but now defunct stacks at the Nucor Steel plant in Seattle. The state is releasing its second take of a proposed rule to require the state's largest polluters to reduce their carbon pollution in an effort to tackle climate change. The Department of Ecology withdrew a rule in February to make substantive changes. The measure released Wednesday, June 1 is a key piece in Gov. Jay Inslee's efforts to tackle climate change and reflects other efforts in California and the Northeast. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, file)

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A Scottish teenager was recently able to hack into North Korea's version of Facebook using the password "Password," and the breach caused the newly launched website to be taken offline. (StarCon via News Corp Australia)

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Targeted: An Iraqi soldier remains standing despite a bullet strike to his vehicle during the push toward Fallujah.

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Industrial hemp activists make their case at an "all hemp" luncheon staged in an elegant townhouse called Elizabeth's on L, just north of the White House.

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In this Monday May 30, 2016, photo, a sedated tiger lies in a cage at the "Tiger Temple" in Saiyok district in Kanchanaburi province, west of Bangkok, Thailand. Wildlife officials in Thailand on Monday began removing some of the 137 tigers held at a Buddhist temple following accusations that the monks were involved in illegal breeding and trafficking of the animals. (AP Photo)

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People walk and play on a beach in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on June 12, 2008. People have become increasingly reluctant to travel to an island where the Zika virus has caused one death, infected more than 1,100 people and is linked to the first microcephaly case acquired on U.S. soil. (Associated Press) **FILE**

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This February 2016 photo released on Monday, May 30, 2016, by ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies shows mature stag-horn coral bleached at Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef off the eastern coast of northern Australia. The reef studies center released the results of its survey of the 2,300-kilometer (1,430-mile) reef off Australia's east coast on Monday. The scientists found that about 35 percent of the coral in the northern and central sections of the reef are dead or dying. (David Bellwood/ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies via AP)

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Two people pilot a boat through the flooded Brazos River on Sunday, May 29, 2016, in Rosenberg, Texas. (Jon Shapley/Houston Chronicle via AP) ** FILE **

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In this Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016 photo, health workers get ready to spray insecticide to combat the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that transmits the Zika virus, under the bleachers of the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, which will be used for the Archery competition in the 2016 summer games. More than 145 public health experts signed an open letter to the World Health Organization on Friday, May 27, 2016 asking the U.N. health agency to consider whether the Rio de Janeiro Olympics should be postponed or moved because of the ongoing Zika outbreak. The letter calls for the games to be delayed or relocated "in the name of public health." (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)

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FILE- In this Oct.1, 2015 file photo, Craig Fugate, Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), right, talks about the status of Hurricane Joaquin as it moves through the eastern Bahamas as Rick Knabb, Director of the National Hurricane Center, left, participate in a media briefing at the National Hurricane Center. The U.S. government is set to release its forecast for how many hurricanes and tropical storms are expected to form over Atlantic and Caribbean waters in the next six months. It’s an annual reminder from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that coastal living comes with significant risks. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

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Former government contractor Edward Snowden revealed the NSA phone-snooping program's existence in 2013, spawning a massive public backlash that forced Congress to curtail the program. (Associated Press)

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People exit Hidden River Cave after officials said over a dozen people who exploring the cave were trapped by rising water Thursday, May 26, 2016, in Horse Cave, Ky. Horse Cave Fire Chief Donnie Parker said the rising water was caused by heavy rains in the area Thursday afternoon. (Austin Anthony/Daily News via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT

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Illustration on Taiwan's efforts to fight disease by Alexander hunter/The Washington Times

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Iraqi federal police covered in dust arrive to join the forces surrounding Fallujah. (Associated Press)

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Illustration on increasing government regulation by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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FILE - In this Aug. 25, 2010, file photo, Cyndi Huntsman poses in front of caged tigers at her Stump Hill Farm in Massillon, Ohio. After the Ohio Department of Agriculture took five tigers and five other exotic animals from the farm on May 4, 2016, one of the seized tigers gave birth to four cubs. Two of the four cubs were found dead Friday, May 20, 2016, in a holding area at an Ohio Department of Agriculture facility in Reynoldsburg, Ohio, and the other cubs were moved to the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in Powell, Ohio. The department says it took the animals because Huntsman hasn't met Ohio's tightened restrictions on keeping such creatures, but Huntsman argues her farm is exempt from permit requirements and the animals should be returned. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan, File)

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A civilian fighter roams an area of damaged buildings in Benghazi, Libya. The U.S. hopes its mission will bring unity to a fractured nation. (Associated Press)