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Emergency workers attend a meeting with Russian Emergency Situations Minister Vladimir Puchkov in Simferopol, Crimea, Tuesday, March 25, 2014. Puchkov met with local emergency officials in Simferopol and said that Russia sent diesel generators to Crimea to serve as a back-up in case of power outages. Crimea faced power cutoffs after Ukraine briefly cut energy supplies to the region. (AP Photo/Maxim Vetrov)
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FILE - This Aug. 23, 2013 file photo shows wind turbines silhouetted by the setting sun near Beaumont, Kansas. The head of the Fish and Wildlife Service tells a House panel he is unable to comply with a request for thousands of documents related to enforcement of environmental laws at wind farms where eagles and other birds have been killed. Agency director Dan Ashe said he and his staff have made "super-human efforts' to supply the documents, but said the amount of documents being sought and the timeframe were "completely unreasonable.'' House Republicans say the administration has engaged in a "deliberate, 10-month-long slow roll" to supply documents. An Associated Press investigation last year revealed that the Obama administration was failing to enforce the law for wind power, even as it pursued bird deaths caused by oil companies. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
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In this March 25, 2014 photo, water passes on the Mississippi River that is still mostly frozen north of Lock and Dam 11 in Dubuque, Iowa. Some Mississippi River shipping ports remain closed with a record amount of ice lingering longer than usual. (AP Photo/The Telegraph Herald, Dave Kettering)
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This combination of images provided by the Carnegie Institution for Science shows a new solar system object dubbed 2012 VP113, indicated by the yellow arrow, that was observed on November 2012 through a telescope in Chile. New research published in the journal Nature reveals it’s the second object to be discovered in the far reaches of the solar system far beyond the orbit of Pluto. (AP Photo/Carnegie Institution for Science, Scott S. Sheppard)
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A Snohomish County Sheriff helicopter flies over the scene on Highway 530 next to mile marker 37 on Sunday, March 23, 2014, the day after a giant landslide occurred near mile marker 37 near Oso, Washington. At least six homes have been washed away, with three people reported dead so far and at least eighteen missing. The nearby Stillaguamish River has been dammed up by 15-20 feet of debris as a result, creating more flooding concerns, as reported by KING 5 via the state hydrologist. (AP Photo/The Seattle Times, Lindsey Wasson, Pool)
