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FOR RELEASE SUNDAY, MARCH 2, 2014, AT 12:01 A.M. CST. - In this photo from Feb. 20, 2014, Kaleigh Davis, left, and Johnpaul Kliebert, both 14, work on a project about Frankfurt at the Energy Institute High School in Houston. It is the first high school in the nation to focus on careers in oil, gas and other energy sources and technologies. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Melissa Phillip)
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FOR RELEASE SUNDAY, MARCH 2, 2014, AT 12:01 A.M. CST. - In this photo from Feb. 20, 2014, Chisom Anyanwu, 15, left, and Blake Gomez, 14, right, work on a project about Laos at the Energy Institute High School in Houston. It is the first high school in the nation to focus on careers in oil, gas and other energy sources and technologies. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Melissa Phillip)
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FILE - This Aug. 13, 2013 file photo shows a gas drilling rig at the Detweiler well in Salesville, Ohio. Supreme Court justices in Ohio vigorously challenged attorneys on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014 over the power of state-level oil and gas drilling regulations to supersede local zoning laws. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete, File)
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FILE - In this Aug. 24, 2010 FILE photo released by Chile's Paleontological Museum of Caldera, a prehistoric whale fossil lays in the Atacama desert near Copiapo, Chile. A team of Chilean and Smithsonian Institution scientists investigating the graveyard of marine mammal fossils say toxins generated by algae blooms most likely poisoned the animals millions of years ago. The study by a team of Chilean and Smithsonian Institution scientists was published Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014 in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. (AP Photo/Museo Paleontologico de Caldera, File)
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Keely Bosler, of the Department of Finance, presents Gov. Jerry Brown's proposed drought-relief package before lawmakers at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday Feb. 26, 2014. Members of the Assembly Budget Subcommittee No.3 on Resources and Transportation approved the package, which provides $687million that will go toward local water conservation and recycling efforts as well as food assistance in communities hit hardest by the drought. The legislation is expected to be up for a full vote of the Assembly by as early as Thursday.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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Assemblyman Jim Patterson, R-Fresno, of the Assembly Budget Subcommittee No.3 on Resources and Transportation questions Keely Bosler, of the Department of Finance, about Gov. Jerry Brown's proposed drought-relief package before lawmakers at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday Feb. 26, 2014. Patterson expressed concerns about the package on the committee rejected some amendments he proposed. Lawmakers approved the governor's package, which approved the package, which provides $687million that will go toward local water conservation and recycling efforts as well as food assistance in communities hit hardest by the drought. The legislation is expected to be up for a full vote of the Assembly by as early as Thursday.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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Assemblyman Richard Bloom, D-Santa Monica, chairman of the Assembly Budget Subcommittee No.3 on Resources and Transportation questions Matt Almy, left, and Keely Bosler, of the Department of Finance, about Gov. Jerry Brown's proposed drought-relief package before lawmakers at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday Feb. 26, 2014. The committee approved the package, which provides $687million that will go toward local water conservation and recycling efforts as well as food assistance in communities hit hardest by the drought. The legislation is expected to be up for a full vote of the Assembly by as early as Thursday.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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Assemblyman Richard Bloom, D-Santa Monica, chairman of the Assembly Budget Subcommittee No.3 on Resources and Transportation questions Keely Bosler, of the Department of Finance, about Gov. Jerry Brown's proposed drought-relief package before lawmakers at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday Feb. 26, 2014. The committee approved the package, which provides $687million that will go toward local water conservation and recycling efforts as well as food assistance in communities hit hardest by the drought. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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** FILE ** A part of debris from a rocket North Korea launched on Dec. 12, 2012, is pulled up by South Korean navy in the Yellow Sea, South Korea. (South Korea Defense Ministry via Associated Press)
