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FILE - In this May 23, 2013 file photo, debris is strewn about amid the wreckage Plaza Towers Elementary, where seven children were killed earlier in the week when a tornado hit Moore, Okla. For the second time since a tornado ravaged Moore, killing a total of 24 people, organizers plan to circulate an initiative petition calling for a statewide vote to fund the construction of school storm shelters. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)
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In this March 8, 2014 file photo steam from the Jeffrey Energy Center coal-fired power plant is silhouetted against the setting sun near St. Marys, Kan. As President Barack Obama prepares to announce tougher new air quality standards affecting coal-fired power plants, lawmakers in about a half-dozen state already have acted pre-emptively. Not to toughen their own standards, but to make it tougher to enforce the new federal ones. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
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This 2013 photo released by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (DFW) shows a DFW environmental scientist holding a dead juvenile coho salmon found in Little Larabee Creek in Humboldt County, Calif. Some drought-stricken rivers and streams in Northern California’s coastal forests are being polluted and sucked dry by water-guzzling medical marijuana farms, wildlife officials say _ an issue that has spurred at least one county to try to outlaw personal grows. (AP Photo/California Department of Fish and Wildlife)
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This undated graphic released by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife shows daily estimated total water use in residences, greenhouses and outdoor grows in the Outlet Creek, a tributary of the Eel River, in Mendocino County, Calif. Some drought-stricken rivers and streams in Northern California’s coastal forests are being polluted and sucked dry by water-guzzling medical marijuana farms, wildlife officials say _ an issue that has spurred at least one county to try to outlaw personal grows. (AP Photo/California Department of Fish and Wildlife)
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This May 2013 photo released by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (DFW) shows a DFW diver conducting an underwater survey to count young salmon and steelhead fish in a tributary to the South Fork Eel River in Humboldt County, Calif. Some drought-stricken rivers and streams in Northern California’s coastal forests are being polluted and sucked dry by water-guzzling medical marijuana farms, wildlife officials say _ an issue that has spurred at least one county to try to outlaw personal grows. (AP Photo/California Department of Fish and Wildlife)
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This undated graphic released by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife shows daily estimated total water use in residences, greenhouses and outdoor grows in the Salmon Creek Watershed, in Humboldt County, Calif. Some drought-stricken rivers and streams in Northern California’s coastal forests are being polluted and sucked dry by water-guzzling medical marijuana farms, wildlife officials say _ an issue that has spurred at least one county to try to outlaw personal grows. (AP Photo/California Department of Fish and Wildlife)
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This photo provided by the National Parks Service, shows the Liberty Ridge Area of Mount Rainier as viewed from the Carbon Glacier, Saturday, May 31, 2014, in Washington state. Six climbers missing on Mount Rainier are presumed dead after helicopters detected pings from emergency beacons buried in the snow thousands of feet below their last known location, a national park official said Saturday. (AP Photo/National Park Service)
