Environment

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In this April 21, 2017, file photo, former Vice President Al Gore participates in the "Unlocking Financing For Climate Action" session during the G20 at the 2017 World Bank Group Spring Meetings in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

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FILE- In this April 3, 2013, file photo, Tangier Island Mayor James "Ooker" Eskridge drives his boat to town on Tangier Island, Va. Eskridge, an enthusiastic Trump supporter who is mayor of a Virginia island that's sinking into the Chesapeake Bay, will debate former Vice President Al Gore on climate change during a CNN town hall that airs Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

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FILE - In this July 16, 2004, file photo, a gray wolf is seen at the Wildlife Science Center in Forest Lake, Minn. A federal appeals court Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017, retained federal protection for gray wolves in the western Great Lakes region, ruling that the government acted prematurely when it dropped them from the endangered species list. (AP Photo/Dawn Villella, File)

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FILE - In this April 27, 2016, file photo, Richard Sawyer, Jr., tosses back an undersized lobster while fishing on Long Island Sound off Groton, Conn. A vote is expected Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017, by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission on a plan to try to slow the decline of southern New England's lobster population with new fishing restrictions. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

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FILE - In this April 28, 2009 file photo, smog covers downtown Los Angeles. Attorneys general from 15 states and the District of Columbia are suing over the Trump administration’s delay of Obama-era rules reducing emissions of smog-causing air pollutants. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)

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This July 31, 2017 photo shows a no swimming sign in one of numerous large pools of water that have formed on the beach in Margate N.J. due to heavy rains. The water is blocked from draining into the ocean by new sand dunes being built as part of a storm protection program that Margate residents vigorously fought, claiming that the dunes would cause exactly the type of standing water that has occurred. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)

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Beachgoers cross over one of numerous large pools of water that have formed on the beach in Margate N.J. due to heavy rains, Monday July 31, 2017. The water is blocked from draining into the ocean by new sand dunes being built as part of a storm protection program that Margate residents vigorously fought, claiming that the dunes would cause exactly the type of standing water that has occurred. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)

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Beachgoers cross over one of numerous large pools of water that have formed on the beach in Margate N.J. due to heavy rains Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017. The water is blocked from draining into the ocean by new sand dunes being built as part of a storm protection program that Margate residents vigorously fought, claiming that the dunes would cause exactly the type of standing water that has occurred. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)

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Beachgoers cross over one of numerous large pools of water that have formed on the beach in Margate N.J. due to heavy rains Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017. The water is blocked from draining into the ocean by new sand dunes being built as part of a storm protection program that Margate residents vigorously fought, claiming that the dunes would cause exactly the type of standing water that has occurred. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)

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Beachgoers cross over one of numerous large pools of water that have formed on the beach in Margate N.J. due to heavy rains Monday July 31, 2017. The water is blocked from draining into the ocean by new sand dunes being built as part of a storm protection program that Margate residents vigorously fought, claiming that the dunes would cause exactly the type of standing water that has occurred. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)

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In this July 24, 2017 photo, Marijuana plants bloom at a laboratory in Natural Ventures in Caguas, Puerto Rico. Investors in Puerto Rico have spent more than $3 million to obtain licenses issued by the islands health department to cultivate, manufacture and sell medical marijuana. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)

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Part of a tree rests on a mobile home in the Easy Living Mobile Home Park after strong winds moved through the area in Tampa, Fla., Monday, July 31, 2017. (Skip O'Rourke/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

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FILE, In this May 23, 2005 file photo, a North Korea cargo ship Paik Du San cast anchor as the bags of fertilizer are loading its at Ulsan port in Ulsan, South Korea. North Korea has been condemned and sanctioned for its nuclear ambitions, yet has still received food, fuel and other aid from its neighbors and adversaries for decades. How does the small, isolated country keep getting what it wants and needs to prevent its collapse? (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man, File)

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In this June 29, 2007 file photo, South Korean workers load packs of rice for North Korea into a Vietnamese ship at Gunsan port in Gunsan, South Korea. North Korea has been condemned and sanctioned for its nuclear ambitions, yet has still received food, fuel and other aid from its neighbors and adversaries for decades. How does the small, isolated country keep getting what it wants and needs to prevent its collapse? The Korean reads " Rice and Republic of Korea." (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man, File )

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n this April 1, 2016, photo, cars line up at at a gas station in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korea has been condemned and sanctioned for its nuclear ambitions, yet has still received food, fuel and other aid from its neighbors and adversaries for decades. How does the small, isolated country keep getting what it wants and needs to prevent its collapse? (AP Photo/Eric Talmadge, File)

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In this May 23, 2005, file photo, a North Korea cargo ship Paik Du San cast anchor as the bags of fertilizer are loading its at Ulsan port in Ulsan, South Korea. North Korea has been condemned and sanctioned for its nuclear ambitions, yet has still received food, fuel and other aid from its neighbors and adversaries for decades. How does the small, isolated country keep getting what it wants and needs to prevent its collapse? (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man, File)

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This undated aerial photo provided Matthew Kirwan shows a narrow band of brown pine trees that were killed by October 2015 tidal flooding near Yorktown, Va. Rising sea levels are killing trees along vast swaths of the North American coast by inundating them in salt water. The dead trees in what used to be thriving freshwater coastal environments are called “ghost forests” by researchers. (David Walters via AP)

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This undated photo provided by Matthew Kirwan shows Phragmites and Spartina marshland expanding into a ghost forest in Robbins, Md. Rising sea levels are killing trees along vast swaths of the North American coast by inundating them in salt water. The dead trees in what used to be thriving freshwater coastal environments are called “ghost forests” by researchers. (Matthew Kirwan via AP)

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In this July 16, 2017, photo, the sun rises on a "ghost forest" near the Savannah River in Port Wentworth, Ga. Rising sea levels are killing trees along vast swaths of the North American coast by inundating them in salt water. The dead trees in what used to be thriving freshwater coastal environments are called “ghost forests” by researchers. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton)

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