Environment

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‘What we do in life, echoes in eternity.’ – Gladiator, 2000

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‘You give me powders, pills, baths, injections, and enemas, when all I need is love.’ – The Bridge on the River Kwai, 1957

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Chicago Bears CB Tim Jennings-Pulled over for allegedly driving 99 mph in 65-mph zone in Georgia. Accused of drunken and reckless driving.. (AP Photo)

In this Jan. 22, 2015, file photo, climate scientist Richard Somerville, member, Science and Security Board, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, right, unveils the new "Doomsday Clock," accompanied by Sivan Kartha, member, Science and Security Board, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and senior scientists at the Stockholm Environmental Institute, right. Scientists behind a "Doomsday Clock" that measures the likelihood of a global cataclysm are set to announce Tuesday Jan. 26, 2016, whether civilization is any closer or farther from disaster. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

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Gov. Maggie Hassan, a Democrat, is trying to unseat Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte in New Hampshire. (Associated Press)

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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie listens to a briefing on a snowstorm during a visit to the New Jersey Department of Transportation Traffic Management and Technology Center, Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016, in Woodbridge, N.J. Towns across the state are hunkering down during a major snowstorm that hit overnight. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

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Ammon Bundy sits at a desk he was using at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon on Friday, Jan. 22, 2016. (AP Photo/Keith Ridler) ** FILE **

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A woman uses a smartphone to take a souvenir photo of the trees covered with ice at a resort in Hangzhou in east China's Zhejiang province, Monday, Jan. 25, 2016. (Chinatopix via AP) CHINA OUT

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Former Republican vice presidential candidate, and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin endorses Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) ** FILE **

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Republican presidential candidate, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush speaks during a campaign stop at Sturm, Ruger & Co. Inc., Thursday, Jan. 21, 2016, in Newport, N.H. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

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Republican presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee speaks during a campaign event at the Habitue Living Center in Le Mars, Iowa, on Jan. 21, 2016. (Associated Press) **FILE**

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Interior Secretary Sally Jewell speaks in Libreville, Gabon, Friday, Jan. 22, 2016. The Obama administration on Friday, Jan. 22, 2016, proposed new rules to clamp down on oil companies that burn off natural gas on public land, arguing that it will reduce waste and harmful methane emissions as part of President Barack Obama’s bid to curb climate change. Jewell said in a statement that natural gas should be used to power the economy, not wasted by being burned into the atmosphere. (AP Photo/Joel Bouopda Tatou)

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Ground-up recycled tire crumbs cover this playground behind the K-2nd grade elementary Dickerson School in Chester, N.J. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

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A researcher holds a container with female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes at the Biomedical Sciences Institute in the Sao Paulo's University, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Monday, Jan. 18, 2016. The Aedes aegypti is a vector for transmitting the Zika virus. The Brazilian government announced it will direct funds to a biomedical research center to help develop a vaccine against the Zika virus linked to brain damage in babies. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

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In a message to Congress, President Obama said the EPA's new rule "is critical to our efforts to protect the nation's waters and keep them clean." (Associated Press)

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Image courtesy of The Gideons International.

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Democratic presidential candidates (from left) former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont square off at the NBC, YouTube Democratic presidential debate — their last face-to-face meeting before the Iowa caususes on Feb. 1 — in Charleston, South Carolina. (Associated Press)