Environment

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"Climate action is not just a defensive play, it advances the ball. We can turn our challenge into an opportunity to modernize our power sector and build a low-carbon economy that will fuel growth for decades to come," Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy said Thursday in a speech at Resources for the Future, a nonprofit research organization. (Associated Press)

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Maryland native Caroline Bowman, as Eva Peron, arrives in Buenos Aires to begin her showbiz career (and eventually become Argentine first lady) in "Evita." (Photograph by Richard Termine)

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Firefighters rest as rescue efforts continue at the World Trade Center in New York Wednesday Sept. 12, 2001. (Associated Press)

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Marines and sailors from India Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, head for a Marine Medium Tiltorotor Squadron 365 MV-22 Osprey at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif. (Image: U.S. Marine Corps) ** FILE **

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Two Argentinean artists have styled Barbie and Ken dolls as religious figures for an exhibition in Buenos Aires. (Pool Paolini/Facebook)

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Two Argentinean artists have styled Barbie and Ken dolls as religious figures for an exhibition in Buenos Aires. (Pool Paolini/Facebook)

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President Barack Obama addresses the Climate Summit 2014 at United Nations headquarters on Sept. 23. (Associated Press) **FILE**

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More than 100 activists were arrested Monday in New York City during "Flood Wall Street," a protest against what organizers say is the corporate world's contribution to climate change. (Twitter/@FloodWallStreet)

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The family of former Marine Jordan Buisman was somehow able to reschedule a VA appointment from his grave. (Image: KARE 11, NBC Minnesota)

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Many of the Syrian refugees were women, children and the elderly, fleeing an onslaught by Islamic State militants on their villages. (Associated Press)

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Demonstrators stage a sit-in Monday on Broadway during a march protesting for action on climate change. (Associated Press)

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Protestors and police wrestle near a barricade on the corner of Wall Street and Broadway during a march demanding action on climate change and corporate greed, Monday, Sept. 22, 2014, a day after a huge climate march in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

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In this Saturday, Jan. 10, 2009, file photo, a flock of geese fly past a smokestack at the Jeffery Energy Center coal power plant near Emmitt, Kan. Hundreds of corporations, insurance companies and pension funds are calling on world leaders gathering for a U.N. summit on climate change this week to attack the problem by making it more costly for businesses to pollute. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File) ** FILE **

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A parishioner from the Notre Dame d' Haiti Catholic Church carries a rosary as they walk the Stations of the Cross on Good Friday, Friday, April 6, 2012, in the Miami neighborhood of Little Haiti. (Associated Press) **FILE**

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Several thousand Syrians, mostly Kurds, crossed into Turkey seeking refuge from Islamic State militants who have barreled through dozens of Kurdish villages in northern Syria. The Obama plan calls for local fighters to counter the terror group on the ground. (associated press)

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Elliot Crown of New York parades in a costume called "Fossil Fool." The goal of signing a climate deal could better be facilitated more by strategic negotiations rather than distracting protest marches. (Associated Press)

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Cpt. Tony Grider, 41, has died after he was electrocuted while participating in an "ice bucket challenge" for ALS. (Campbellsville/Taylor Co. Fire Department)

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Actor and activist Mark Ruffalo takes questions before the start of the People's Climate March in New York Sunday, Sept. 21, 2014. Thousands of people from across the nation are expected to participate in what's billed as the largest march ever on global warming. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle) ** FILE **