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In this on March 6, 2014, file photo, Empty nuclear waste shipping containers sit in front of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M. Operations were put on hold at the nation’s only underground nuclear waste repository in early February when a work truck caught fire. Nine days later, a container of waste that had been packed at Los Alamos National Laboratory and placed into one of the storage rooms at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad ruptured. The radiation leak contaminated more than 20 workers and forced the indefinite closure of the facility, leaving the federal government without a place to dispose of tons of Cold War-era waste from locations around the country. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File)
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Former GOP presidential contender Sen. Rick Santorum said, "We are putting the pieces together, just trying to build the model and see if it takes off. We are trying to raise money, and we put a good team together in Iowa and South Carolina already, and we are working on one in New Hampshire." (Associated Press)
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The orangutan named Sandra sits in her enclosure at Buenos Aires' Zoo in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, Dec. 22, 2014. An Argentine court has ruled that Sandra, who has spent 20 years at the zoo, should be recognized as a person with a right to freedom. The ruling would free Sandra from captivity and have her transferred to a nature sanctuary in Brazil after a court recognized the primate as a "non-human person" which has some basic human rights. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
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FILE - In this Aug. 5, 2014 file photo a farmer drives his tractor past a soybean field toward grain storage bins near Ladora, Iowa. U.S. agriculture has a big appetite for freer trade with Cuba, and soybeans are one of the main products Cuba now buys from the United States. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday he accepted the decision of the state Department of Environmental Conservation to ban high-volume hydraulic fracturing statewide as a result of a state health department review. (Associated Press)
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This April 2011 file photo provided by Colorado Parks and Wildlife shows a male and female Gunnison sage grouse near Gunnison, Colo. New research could have implications for sheep and cattle grazing in the habitat of the ground-dwelling bird that environmentalists are trying to protect across the Rocky Mountain region. A study published in the December issue of Wildlife Biology suggests grass height can have a big influence on the nesting success of the greater-sage grouse. (AP Photo/Colorado Parks and Wildlife, Mike Danzenbaker, File)
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Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Alaska Republican, offered muted protest when President Obama declared Bristol Bay exempt from energy exploration indefinitely. "It is incredibly frustrating that this administration looks at Alaska ... and decides that conservation is our most pressing need," she said. (Associated Press)
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With millions of new sexually transmitted disease (STD) infections a year, public health officials encourage people to get tested. (Image courtesy of County of San Mateo Health System). **FILE**
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South Dakota is pulling the public safety campaign "Don't Drive and Jerk," because officials fear the intentional double entendre could distract from its importance. (South Dakota Department of Public Safety via Argus Leader)
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President George W. Bush and CIA director George J. Tenet pose on the CIA seal in the entrance of agency headquarters in Langley, Virginia. (Associated Press)
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In this photo taken Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014, female northern white rhino Fatu grazes in the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya. The keepers of three of the last six northern white rhinos on Earth said Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014 that it is highly unlikely the three will ever reproduce naturally, with recent medical examinations of them showing the species is doomed to extinction, unless science can help. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
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The Gunnison sage grouse's habitat falls across southwestern Colorado and eastern Utah, with 86 percent of the population in Colorado's Gunnison Basin. State officials argue that local efforts to boost the bird's numbers have been succeeding without federal intervention. (Associated Press)
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FILE - This July, 26, 2014 file photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a Greater Sage Grouse at the Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge in Wyoming. A legislative rider in Congress’ $1.1 trillion spending bill would delay protections for the wide-ranging Western bird that’s been on a collision course with the oil and gas industry. The Obama administration faced a September 2015 deadline to propose protections for greater sage grouse. But the spending package agreed to late Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014 by Democrat and Republican leaders prevents the administration from spending any money next year on rules to protect the ground-dwelling bird. (AP Photo/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Tom Koerner, File)
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Delegates attend the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Lima, Peru, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014. Already well into overtime, U.N. climate talks reached a standstill Saturday as developing countries rejected a draft deal they said would allow rich countries to shirk their responsibilities to fight global warming and pay for its impacts. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
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The "winter blues": How to combat SAD -- seasonal affective disorder. (AP Photo)
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The USS Wyoming in Saint Marys River, 2012. (Image: U.S. Navy)
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An MQ-1C Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft. (Image: U.S. Army) ** FILE **
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LED IN: Oil pumps work Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014, in the Persian Gulf desert oil field of Sakhir, Bahrain. The price of oil struggled to advance much beyond $92 a barrel Tuesday on expectations that supplies will rise with ramped up output in Libya and the North Sea, along with more exports from Iran if a deal on its nuclear program succeeds. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali) (Associated Press)
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Illustration on the damage done by false accusations of rape by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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Indian women participate in a march in "Defense of Mother Earth" in Lima, Peru, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014. Thousands marched in support of Mother Earth as they chanted slogans against illegal mining, and logging operations, as well as oil drilling. They asked that the exploitation of resources in their ancestral lands be stopped immediately. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
