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FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014 file photo, Amy Adams, North Carolina campaign coordinator with Appalachian Voices dips her hand into the Dan River in Danville, Va. as signs of coal ash appear in the river. Documents and interviews collected by The Associated Press show how Duke’s lobbyists prodded Republican legislators to tuck a 330-word provision in a regulatory reform bill running nearly 60 single-spaced pages. Though the bill never once mentions coal ash, the change allowed Duke to avoid any costly cleanup of contaminated groundwater leaching from its unlined dumps toward rivers, lakes and the drinking wells of nearby homeowners. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)
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FILE - This March 14, 2014 file photo released by the North Dakota Department of Health, shows an oil well that was swamped by floodwaters near the confluence of the Yellowstone and Missouri rivers near Williston, N.D. Environmental geologist Kris Roberts says up to 1,400 gallons of oil might have spilled from the well site into floodwaters in the area southwest of Williston. A North Dakota health official says Denver-based Zavanna LLC likely will be sanctioned for not heeding a warning to secure the oil well. The spill was discovered Friday and has been contained. (AP Photo/North Dakota Department of Health, File)
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Police officers control a vehicle along the Seine river in Paris, Monday, March 17, 2014. Cars with even-numbered license plates are prohibited from driving in Paris and its suburbs Monday, following a government decision over the weekend. Paris is taking drastic measures to combat its worst air pollution in years, banning around half of the city's cars and trucks from its streets in an attempt to reduce the toxic smog that's shrouded the City of Light for more than a week. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
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Police officers control vehicles along the Seine river in Paris, Monday, March 17, 2014. Cars with even-numbered license plates are prohibited from driving in Paris and its suburbs Monday, following a government decision over the weekend. Paris is taking drastic measures to combat its worst air pollution in years, banning around half of the city's cars and trucks from its streets in an attempt to reduce the toxic smog that's shrouded the City of Light for more than a week. The Eiffel Tower is seen in the background. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
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Lucy Jones, a USGS seismologist talks during a news conference at Caltech in Pasadena, Calif, on Monday, March 17, 2014. The pre-dawn quake rolled across the Los Angeles basin on Monday, rattling residents from the San Fernando Valley to Long Beach but causing no reported damage. The quake's magnitude was 4.4 and it was centered 15 miles west-northwest of the downtown civic center, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. (AP Photo/Nick Ut )
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Egill Hauksson a Caltech Seismologist talks about an early morning earthquake during a news conference at Caltech in Pasadena, Calif, on Monday, March 17, 2014. The pre-dawn quake rolled across the Los Angeles basin on Monday, rattling residents from the San Fernando Valley to Long Beach but causing no reported damage. The quake's magnitude was 4.4 and it was centered 15 miles west-northwest of the downtown civic center, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. (AP Photo/Nick Ut )
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Washington State Department of Fish & Wildlife officer Will Smith warns Talena Hunter of Ellensburg, Wash., and her two children to stay off the exposed beach area along the Columbia River on Wednesday, March 12, 2014. The group was looking for exposed debris near Vantage. Grant County PUD is paying for patrols along the Columbia to warn people to stay above the high water mark for their own safety and to protect cultural sites. (AP Photo/Wenatchee World/Mike Bonnicksen)
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Tesla representative John Van Cleave displays a map showing present and planned supercharging stations located around the United States for Tesla's all electric car, Monday, March 17, 2014, at a Tesla showroom inside the Kenwood Towne Centre in Cincinnati. Ohio auto dealers are sparring at the Statehouse with the California-based Tesla, which is selling it's next generation electric cars from three Ohio storefronts. Lawmakers in Ohio and other states are trying to block Tesla direct sales on grounds they undercut traditional auto dealerships. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)
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Robert Reynolds, left, and his wife Sarah, right, are shown a new Tesla all electric car by Tesla representative John Van Cleave, Monday, March 17, 2014, at a Tesla showroom inside the Kenwood Towne Centre in Cincinnati. Ohio auto dealers are sparring at the Statehouse with the California-based Tesla, which is selling it's next generation electric cars from three Ohio storefronts. Lawmakers in Ohio and other states are trying to block Tesla direct sales on grounds they undercut traditional auto dealerships. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)
