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MBTA Transit Police Lt. Gary Fredericks, center, speaks to a commuter on the Red Line subway in Boston, Thursday, July 7, 2005, after Massachusetts authorities raised security at mass transit stations to orange alert status in response to earlier bombings in London. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)
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National Edition News cover for June 5, 2015 - EPA backs up water safety from fracking: The oil and gas drilling method known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, mobilizes thousands around the country both for and against the process, industry and some environmental. Hydraulic fracturing to drill for oil and natural gas has not caused widespread harm to drinking water in the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday in a draft report. (AP Photo)
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An Islamic State member rests along the Euphrates River in Raqqa, Syria. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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Rescuers work on the capsized ship, center, on the Yangtze River in China's Hubei province, Wednesday, June 3, 2015. The capsizing late Monday of the Eastern Star in the Yangtze River in southern China is on track to become the country's deadliest maritime disaster in seven decades. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
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Gov. Jerry Brown's embrace of hydraulic fracturing has drawn the scorn of California's vocal environmental movement, which decries Mr. Brown as being too cozy with energy business interests. (Associated Press)
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Urban oil fields, such as one in tony Beverly Hills, are among the viable sources for development throughout the Golden State. Gov. Jerry Brown is bucking a liberal trend by backing fracking extraction. (Associated Press)
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Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal speaks during Rick Scott's Economic Growth Summit in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., Tuesday, June 2, 2015. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack) ** FILE **
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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker speaks during Rick Scott's Economic Growth Summit in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., Tuesday, June 2, 2015. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)
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A Russian Su-24 aircraft zooms by the destroyer USS Ross in the Black Sea. The jet was 1,640 feet from the ship at an altitude of 600 feet. (Image: U.S. Navy) ** FILE **
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Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras arrives for a meeting at the Education Ministry in Athens, Tuesday, June 2, 2015. Tsipras says Greece has submitted a proposal for an agreement with its creditors, as Athens seeks a deal that will to unlock desperately needed rescue money. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
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In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, rescuers save a survivor, center, from the overturned passenger ship in the Jianli section of the Yangtze River in central China's Hubei Province Tuesday, June 2, 2015. Rescuers pulled several survivors to safety after hearing cries for help Tuesday from inside a capsized cruise ship that went down overnight in a storm on China's Yangtze River, state broadcaster CCTV said. (Cheng Min/Xinhua via AP)
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Rescue workers stand on the ship that capsized on the Yangtze River in central China's Hubei province Tuesday. (Associated Press)
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Swiss pilot Andre Borschberg waves from the aircraft Solar Impulse 2 before taking off at Nanjing Lukou International Airport in Nanjing in eastern China's Jiangsu province, in this Sunday, May 31, 2015, file photo. The solar plane attempting to fly around the world without a drop of fuel said Monday, June 1, that it is making an unscheduled stop in Nagoya, central Japan, because of bad weather. (Chinatopix via AP, File)
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Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, has long been a critic of the Patriot Act's far-reaching surveillance powers and the fight over its reauthorization has helped him carve out a unique space among the 2016 GOP presidential candidates. (Associated Press)
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In this photo taken on Tuesday, May 5, 2015, Guy Lindblom picks unnecessary leaves from mature cannabis plants so they can concentrate more of their energy into the flowering buds where the medicinal chemicals are produced at a greenhouse in Otsego, Minn. The crop is coming in at Minnesota Medical Solutions, one of two manufacturers who will be supplying the state's medical marijuana. (AP Photo,Star Tribune,Glen Stubbe, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 18, 2015 file photo Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy speaks at the State Department in Washington. The Obama administration says a new federal rule regulating small streams and wetlands will protect the drinking water of more than 117 million Americans. Republicans in Congress say the rule issued this week goes too far and could even subject puddles and ditches to regulation in what GOP lawmakers call a massive overreach of government power. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
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Nepalese students wait for their school bus in front of a collapsed house as thousands of schools across the districts worst hit by two major earthquakes in Nepal reopened Sunday, in Kathmandu, Nepal, Sunday, May 31, 2015. With most school buildings damaged or unsafe, the Education Ministry ordered that classes be held in temporary classrooms. According to a UNICEF statement, 32,000 classrooms were destroyed and 15,352 classrooms were damaged after the two major earthquakes in Nepal. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha) ** FILE **
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An Anheuser-Busch plant in northwest Georgia has temporarily halted its production of beer in order to supply thousands of cans of drinking water to flood-ravaged Texas and Oklahoma. (Anheuser-Busch)
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FILE - In this Nov. 1, 2014 file photo, an American Ethanol label is shown on a NASCAR race car gas tank at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas. The Obama administration is proposing to reduce the amount of ethanol blended in the nation's gasoline, a blow to renewable fuel companies that have pushed to keep high volumes of their product flowing into drivers' gas tanks. The move is unlikely to mean much for consumers or prices at the pump. (AP Photo/Randy Holt, File)
