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This image released by Bloomsbury Press shows the cover of "Poison Spring: The Secret History of Pollution and the E.P.A.," by E.G. Vallianatos with McKay Jenkins. (AP Photo/Bloomsbury Press)
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Firefighters rescue a family from their home, surrounded by floodwaters, in a mobile home park in Pelham, Ala., on Monday, April 6, 2014. Overnight storms dumped torrential rains in central Alabama, causing flooding across a wide area. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)
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An abandoned vehicle sits submerged by floodwaters on a road in a mobile home park in Pelham, Ala., on Monday, April 6, 2014. Storms dumped torrential rains in central Alabama overnight, causing flooding across the region. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)
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Kurt Nelson looks at an irrigation rig he blamed for causing his well to go dry in the fall of 2012 about 20 miles from Glenwood in western Minnesota in an undated photo. As irrigation booms in Minnesota, hundreds of farmers appear to be pumping groundwater for their crops without the required state permits. (AP Photo/Minnesota Public Radio, Mark Steil)
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Farmer Jim Anderson climbs one of his many irrigation rigs near Brooten, Minn. in an undated photo. As irrigation booms in Minnesota, hundreds of farmers appear to be pumping groundwater for their crops without the required state permits. (AP Photo/Minnesota Public Radio, Mark Steil)
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FILE - In this Monday, Oct. 7, 2013 file photo, a dead cow lies in the snow near Sturgis, S.D., during an autumn blizzard. The federal Agriculture Department says farmers and ranchers whose herds were devastated by the early October blizzard can start signing up for disaster assistance programs authorized by the new farm bill on Tuesday, April 15. The snow storm that hit Oct. 4-5 killed more than 43,000 cattle and other livestock in South Dakota and more than 1,000 farm animals in North Dakota. (AP Photo/Rapid City Journal, Kristina Barker, File)
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Flood waters cover a street in a mobile home park in Pelham, Ala., on Monday, April 7, 2014. Police and firefighters rescued about a dozen people who were trapped by muddy, fast-moving water after storms dumped torrential rains in central Alabama. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)
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Firefighter Rusty Murphy wades through flood waters in a mobile home park in Pelham, Ala., on Monday, April 7, 2014. Police and firefighters rescued about a dozen people who were trapped by muddy, fast-moving water after storms dumped torrential rains in central Alabama. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)
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Bubba Watson and his caddie walk past the location where the 65-feet high Eisenhower Tree was located on the 17th fairway during a practice session for the Masters golf tournament Monday, April 7, 2014, in Augusta, Ga. The Eisenhower Tree was recently removed after a winter storm in February "caused irreparable damage" to many of its branches. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
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A Chinese Ilyushin IL-76s aircraft touches down at Perth International Airport after returning from search operations for wreckage and debris of the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, in Perth, Australia, Monday, April 7, 2014. Underwater sounds detected by a ship searching the southern Indian Ocean for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet are consistent with the pings from aircraft black boxes, an Australian official said Monday, dubbing it "a most promising lead" in the monthlong hunt for the vanished plane. Angus Houston, the head of a joint agency coordinating the search, warned that it could take days to confirm whether the signals picked up by the Australian navy ship Ocean Shield are indeed from the black boxes that belonged to Flight 370, but called the discovery very encouraging. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)
