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Blockers: Environmentalists oppose the cross-country pipeline because they fear catastrophic spills and emissions of greenhouse gases that they blame for climate change. They have warned Mr. Obama of political peril in November's elections. (Associated Press photographs)
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Sen. Mary L. Landrieu of Louisiana, one of the Senate's most endangered Democrats, was the lead sponsor of the energy bill that included the pipeline. (Associated Press)
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Local citizens collect parts of a downed Ukrainian military helicopter near Raigorodok, outside Slovyansk.
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FILE- In this undated file photo provided byt he USDA, an aedes aegypti mosquito is shown on human skin. Health officials in the Dominican Republic said this Tuesday April 29, 1014, that the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus has spread widely since making its first appearance in the country. According to the Centers for Disease Control the chikungunya virus is most often spread to people by Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes. These are the same mosquitoes that transmit dengue virus. They bite mostly during the daytime. (AP Photo/USDA, File)
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FILE - In this Aug. 3, 2011 file photo, Texas State Park police officer Thomas Bigham walks across the cracked lake bed of O.C. Fisher Lake in San Angelo, Texas. Global warming is rapidly turning America into a stormy and dangerous place, with rising seas and disasters upending lives from flood-stricken Florida to the wildfire-ravaged West, according to a new U.S. federal scientific report released Tuesday, May 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
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FILE - In this April 19, 2011 file photo, a wildfire threatens a house near Possum Kingdom, Texas. Global warming is rapidly turning America the beautiful into America the stormy, sneezy and dangerous, according to a new federal scientific report released Tuesday, May 6, 2014. The report emphasizes how warming and its all-too-wild weather are changing daily lives, even using the phrase "climate disruption" as another way of saying global warming. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
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Wildfire smoke masks the sun as it sets over a ridge Saturday, June 22, 2013, near South Fork, Colo. Global warming is rapidly turning America into a stormy and dangerous place, with rising seas and disasters upending lives from flood-stricken Florida to the wildfire-ravaged West, according to a new U.S. federal scientific report released Tuesday, May 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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A fire truck drives past trees burned during the Las Conchas fire in Los Alamos, N.M., Thursday, June 30, 2011. Global warming is rapidly turning America into a stormy and dangerous place, with rising seas and disasters upending lives from flood-stricken Florida to the wildfire-ravaged West, according to a new U.S. federal scientific report released Tuesday, May 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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A wildfire burns in the hills just north of the San Gabriel Valley community of Glendora, Calif. on Thursday, Jan 16, 2014. Global warming is rapidly turning America into a stormy and dangerous place, with rising seas and disasters upending lives from flood-stricken Florida to the wildfire-ravaged West, the National Climate Assessment report concluded Tuesday, May 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
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FILE - In this June 27, 2011 file photo, floodwaters from the Souris River surround homes near Minot State University in Minot, N.D. Global warming is rapidly turning America the beautiful into America the stormy, sneezy and dangerous, according to the National Climate Assessment report released Tuesday, May 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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FILE - In this Feb. 2, 2011 file photo, hundreds of cars are seen stranded on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago. Global warming is rapidly turning America the beautiful into America the stormy, sneezy and dangerous, according to a new U.S. federal scientific report released Tuesday, May 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)
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Hoppie, left, the sea lion rescued from an almond orchard follows Eugene, right, while being released back to the wild at Chimney Rock Tuesday, May 6, 2014, in Point Reyes National Seashore, Calif. Hoppie, a male California seal lion pup treated for malnutrition and skin mites at The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, Calif, was rescued after being found at the Mape's Ranch almond orchard in Modesto, Calif on March 31. Two other sea lions were released along with Hoppie. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
