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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)
