Environment

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A water conservation sign is shown displayed outside of City Hall in Santa Cruz, Calif., Tuesday, July 29, 2014. (AP Photo/Bay Area News Group, Patrick Tehan) ** FILE **

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FILE- This April 26, 2013 file photo shows the West Hercules drilling rig in the Skaanevik fjord in western Norway. Norway's government controlled Statoil oil company reported Thursday Aug. 7, 2014, that it has not found any commercial quantities of oil and gas at the northernmost wells it has drilled in the Arctic region, ending the exploration campaign for this year without indicating if drilling would resume next year. (AP Photo/Scanpix, Statoil, FILE)

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Onlookers view rocks and mud and downed power lines from a mudslide in the mountain community of Forest Falls in the San Bernardino Mountains Monday, Aug. 4, 2014. Crews cleared roads in an area where some 2,500 had been stranded after thunderstorms caused mountain mudslides in Southern California over the weekend, while authorities estimated that between six and eight homes were badly damaged and likely uninhabitable. One person was found dead in a vehicle that was caught in a flash flood. A group of campers spent the night at a community center near Forest Falls. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

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This July 11, 2014, aerial photo shows boats sailing around the tip of Sandy Hook, N.J. as seen from an airplane operated by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry) **FILE**

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In this photo taken by cellphone and released by China's Xinhua News Agency, men search the rubble of buildings for survivors after an earthquake in Ludian County of Zhaotong City in southwest China's Yunnan Province. (AP Photo/Xinhua/Hu Chao)

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Illustration on the importance of coal generated electricity to American life by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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Hughes MH-6 Little Bird, nicknamed the Killer Egg, and its attack variant AH-6, are light helicopters used for special operations in the United States Army. This little helicopter has proved its worth in Grenada, Nicaragua, Panama, Somalia and Iraq. They fulfilled a multitude of roles from observation, transport, to attack. Two US Army (USA) AH-6J Little Bird helicopters take off for a mission at a forward deployed location in southern Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

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NUMBER 9. HUGHES MH-6 LITTLE BIRD, nicknamed the Killer Egg, and its attack variant AH-6, are light helicopters used for special operations in the United States Army. This little helicopter has proved its worth in Grenada, Nicaragua, Panama, Somalia and Iraq. They fulfilled a multitude of roles from observation, transport, to attack. Two US Army (USA) AH-6J Little Bird helicopters take off for a mission at a forward deployed location in southern Iraq during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM.

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NUMBER 9. HUGHES MH-6 LITTLE BIRD, nicknamed the Killer Egg, and its attack variant AH-6, are light helicopters used for special operations in the United States Army. This little helicopter has proved its worth in Grenada, Nicaragua, Panama, Somalia and Iraq. They fulfilled a multitude of roles from observation, transport, to attack. Two US Army (USA) AH-6J Little Bird helicopters take off for a mission at a forward deployed location in southern Iraq during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM.

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Argentine President Cristina Fernandez gives a speech to supporters from a balcony at an inside patio of Casa Rosada Presidential Palace in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, July 31, 2014. The collapse of talks with U.S. creditors sent Argentina into its second debt default in 13 years and raised questions about what comes next for financial markets and the South American nation's staggering economy.(AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

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The Redskins' Richard Crawford checks on Jerry Rice Jr. , on Thursday after Rice went down with what coach Jay Gruden thinks could be a serious shoulder injury. (Associated Press)

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Chris Pratt plays Peter "Star-Lord" Quill a likeable rogue kidnapped from Earth and raised by space pirates in Marvel's "Guardians Of The Galaxy." (Associated Press)

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A general view of the Eshkol power station in the coastal city of Ashdod, southern Israel, Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010. A top official at a U.S. energy company developing natural gas fields off the coast of Israel urged Congress to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank, saying the agency is vital to clinching development deals for American companies in the region. **FILE**