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FILE - In this June 6, 2013 file photo, crews from Waste Control Specialists load the first of two containers with low-level radioactive waste from Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, into a reinforced 8-inch-thick concrete container at the 90-acre federal dump where it will remain forever, on Thursday, June 6, 2013, near Andrews, Texas. The Dallas-based company that now disposes of low-level radioactive waste in West Texas is taking a first step to become an interim storage site for high-level waste. Waste Control Specialists is notifying the Nuclear Regulatory of the company's intent to seek a license to build a facility in Andrews County to store spent nuclear fuel rods from decommissioned power plants for as long as 100 years. (AP Photo/Betsy Blaney, File)

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Russia has aligned itself with the anti-fracking movement for fear that aggressive U.S. fracking will cut into Moscow's global gas profits, analysts say. (Associated Press/File)

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Gov. Jerry Brown responds to a question concerning the announcement by U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, left, that the federal government is offering up to $50 million for drought relief in western states during a news conference at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Friday, Feb. 6, 2015. The additional funding includes about $20 million for California's Central Valley Water Project for efforts such as water transfers, drought monitoring for endangered species and diversifying water supplies.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

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#1. IDAHO $1.884/GALLON. The Idaho Potato Museum is a must-see stop devoted to the state's iconic crop.

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A person looks at the Piton de la Fournaise volcano in eruption Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015, in the French Indian Ocean island of La Reunion. This is the second eruption in the past year at Piton de la Fournaise after 3-years of quiet. (AP Photo/Fabrice Wislez)

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Ukrainian forces have lost hundreds of square miles more than was agreed under the Minsk Protocol. U.S. and Ukrainian officials say separatists in the east are pushing to establish a land bridge from Russia's mainland to Crimea. (Associated Press)

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2. NEW HAMPSHIRE $2.067/GALLON - Players take to the ice, Friday, Jan. 23, 2015, at White Park in Concord, N.H., for the annual Black Ice hockey tournament. More than 90 teams from around the country will compete in the three-day event . (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

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#1. HAWAII $3.106 - This image taken July 7, 2014 shows people sunbathing at Papakolea green sand beach near Ocean View, Hawaii. Olivine crystals eroding from an ancient volcanic cinder cone give Papakolea its hue. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)

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8. NEBRASKA $2.058/GALLON - Known locally as the billboard building, a structure is covered with election posters west of Mead, Neb., Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2014, ahead of the upcoming November elections. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

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Then Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin jumps off a cross-country vehicle as he arrives to a research institute at the Franz Josef Land archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, April 29, 2010. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

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Illustration on Russia's interference with global energy production by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

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In this Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015, photo, oil pump jacks are seen McKenzie County, in western North Dakota. Roughly 60 rigs are drilling in surrounding McKenzie County, 40 percent of the rigs statewide. But now that those prices have tumbled, the shifting oil market threatens to put the industry and local governments on a collision course. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)

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U.S. Marines from 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment in Husaybah, Iraq, Nov. 3, 2006. (Image: U.S. Marine Corps.) ** FILE **

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In this Friday, June 13, 2014 photo, a new cooling tower for a nuclear power plant reactor that's under construction stands near the two operating reactors at Plant Vogtle power plant in Waynesboro, Ga. Southern Co. said the firms building its new nuclear power plant in Georgia estimate the project will be delayed 18 months, potentially costing the power company $720 million in new charges, company officials said Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)

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NORTH DAKOTA $502K -In this Wednesday, June 11, 2014, photo, James Lyons and Florence Reaves, from Kirkwood, Mo., hike to a stone lookout over the Little Missouri River inside the Theodore Roosevelt National Park, located in the Badlands of North Dakota. The park of more than 70,000 acres sits atop the Bakken shale, an oil-rich rock formation that for decades frustrated drillers who could not coax anything profitable from the ground. But advances in hydraulic fracturing and directional drilling have unlocked huge amounts of petroleum here. North Dakota is now the second-biggest oil producer in the U.S. after Texas. Oil development is strictly forbidden within the park itself, but park officials worry that the flares and noise from drilling just beyond the protected area sullies the natural spaces that drew Roosevelt here as a bespectacled young man in his mid-20s. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

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MARYLAND $419K -Wild horses roam on South Ocean Beach at Assateague Island National Seashore near Berlin, Md. on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)

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NEW JERSEY $539K -In this Wednesday, July 23, 2014 photograph people relax and play in the ocean in Atlantic City, N.J. Good weather and greater awareness that the Jersey shore has made huge strides in recovering from Superstorm Sandy helped make the second summer after the storm better than the first one, many shore merchants and elected officials say. Some business owners report profits up 20 to 30 percent in the summer of 2014 compared with 2013, when the shore was still in the early stages of recovering from the devastating Oct. 29, 2012, storm. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

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A woman holds a sign that reads in Spanish "I am Nisman" and "Justice!" near the funeral home where a wake is held for prosecutor Alberto Nisman in Buenos Aires. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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A pine grosbeak rests in a tree near Sourdough Creek in Bozeman, Mont., Jan. 19, 2015. The pine grosbeak, a robin-sized finch, summers in the boreal forest of northern Canada, except for a small band extending south along the Rocky Mountains where the birds remain year-round. (AP Photo/Daily Chronicle, Ben Pierce)

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In this Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013, file photo, the Nest smoke and carbon monoxide alarm is shown at the company's offices, in Palo Alto, Calif. Google said Monday, Jan. 13, 2014, it will pay $3.2 billion to buy Nest Labs, which develops high-tech versions of devices like thermostats and smoke detectors. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)