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People try to move the cars from a flooded coastal road after an earthquake on the Greek island of Kos early Friday, July 21, 2017. A powerful earthquake struck Greek islands and Turkey's Aegean coast early Friday morning, damaging buildings and a port and killing people, authorities said. (Kostoday.gr via AP)
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A man moves a scooter from a flooded coastal road after an earthquake on the Greek island of Kos early Friday, July 21, 2017. A powerful earthquake struck Greek islands and Turkey's Aegean coast early Friday morning, damaging buildings and a port, authorities said. (Kostoday.gr via AP)
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People walk at a flooded coastal road after an earthquake on the Greek island of Kos early Friday, July 21, 2017. A powerful earthquake struck Greek islands and Turkey's Aegean coast early Friday morning, damaging buildings and a port, authorities said. (Kostoday.gr via AP)
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People sit at a square after an earthquake on the Greek island of Kos early Friday, July 21, 2017. A powerful earthquake struck Greek islands and Turkey's Aegean coast early Friday morning, damaging buildings and a port and killing at least two people, authorities said. (Kostoday.gr via AP)
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This satellite imagery, posted Wednesday, July 19, 2017 on a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration website, shows a large plume of smoke spreading hundreds of miles east from the Ditwiler fire, near Yosemite National Park in California's Sierra Nevada. Authorities say the stubborn wildfire burning in foothills west of Yosemite had destroyed dozens of structures while forcing thousands of people from their homes Wednesday. The San Francisco Bay Area is at left; Lake Tahoe is at top center. (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration via AP)
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Amazon Busts Through the Bricks and Mortar Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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FILE - In this April 27, 2017, file photo, the Harley-Davidson name is seen on the gas tank of a motorcycle in Northbrook, Ill. The Justice Department is seeking to waive part of the penalty Harley Davidson Inc. agreed to pay in 2016 to settle a case over air pollution involving racing tuners that caused its motorcycles to emit higher-than-allowed pollution levels.The Justice Department on July 20, 2017, filed a new consent decree with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. It eliminates a requirement that the Milwaukee-based company spend $3 million to curb air pollution in local communities by paying to replace conventional woodstoves with cleaner-burning versions. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)
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In this Friday, July 10, 2015 photo, a Karner Blue butterfly rests on the finger of Neil Gifford, conservation director at the Albany Pine Bush Preserve Commission, after it was released at the preserve in Albany, N.Y. Wildlife officials announced Thursday, July 20, 2017, that the butterfly on the federal endangered species list is doing well in the sandy pine barrens west of Albany. The butterfly is also making a comeback through recovery efforts in Ohio and New Hampshire. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)
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FILE - In this July 10, 2015 file photo, a Karner Blue butterfly is seen after it was released at the Albany Pine Bush Preserve Commission in Albany, N.Y. Wildlife officials announced Thursday, July 20, 2017, that the butterfly on the federal endangered species list is doing well in the sandy pine barrens west of Albany. The butterfly is also making a comeback through recovery efforts in Ohio and New Hampshire. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)
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In this July 13, 2017 photo, men remove mud from a shallow channel so that tourist boats will be able to move through the channel, in Xochimilco, Mexico City. Some of Mexico City’s most in-demand restaurants are increasingly incorporating produce grown at the famed aquatic gardens of Xochimilco (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
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The Trempealeau River flooded in downtown Arcadia, Wis., Thursday, July 20, 2017. Several hundred people in the Trempealeau County city of Arcadia voluntarily evacuated flooded neighborhoods and the downtown area starting about 2:30 a.m., Mayor Robert Reichwein told The Associated Press. (Elizabeth Flores/Star Tribune via AP)
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Eric Canape, left standing, a member of the Pessamit Innu tribal nation of Quebec, Canada, speaks during a meeting with opponents of a proposed Northern Pass power project Thursday, July 20, 2017, in Concord, N.H. Tribal representatives Jean-Noel Riverin, second from right, and Gerald Hervieux, right, also attended. The tribe opposes the U.S. power project, saying it would accommodate a hydro-power company that has decimated a salmon fishery in Quebec that the tribe depends upon. (AP Photo/Bill Sikes)
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Edgar St-Onge, center, an elder of the Pessamit Innu tribal nation of Quebec, Canada, speaks during a meeting with opponents of a proposed Northern Pass power project Thursday, July 20, 2017, in Concord, N.H. The tribe opposes the U.S. power project, saying it would accommodate a hydro-power company that has decimated a salmon fishery in Quebec that the tribe depends upon. (AP Photo/Bill Sikes)
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Sea ice breaks up as the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica sails through the Beaufort Sea off the coast of Alaska while traversing the Arctic's Northwest Passage, Sunday, July 16, 2017. Icebreakers are the battering rams of far northern climes. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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Workers walk and climb through the rubble and mud Thursday, July 20, 2017, as they assess the damage from the Turton Creek flooding in Arcadia, Wis., following thunderstorms the night before. Several hundred people evacuated their homes early Thursday in the small western Wisconsin community. (Chuck Miller/The Daily News via AP)
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FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2013, file photo, a driver passes the small boat harbor in King Cove, Alaska. The House has approved legislation allowing a proposed road through a remote national wildlife refuge in Alaska that was rejected by the Obama administration. A bill approved July 20 would grant a land exchange allowing Alaska to build the long-disputed road between two rural communities, King Cove and Cold Bay, near the tip of the Alaska Peninsula 600 miles (965 kilometers) southwest of Anchorage.(James Brooks/Kodiak Daily Mirror via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT
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Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner, left, talks with W.J. Murphy Elementary School Principal Phil Georgia as he tours the flood damaged school in Round Lake, Ill., Wednesday, July 19, 2017. (Steve Lundy/Daily Herald via AP)
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Flooding from heavy rains damaged the library at W.J. Murphy Elementary School in Round Lake, Ill. Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner toured the flood damaged school on Wednesday. (Steve Lundy/Daily Herald via AP)
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FILE - IN this Dec. 2, 2009, file photo, the Total Port Arthur refinery is shown in Port Arthur, Texas. Federal lawsuits against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will be filed claiming the agency has failed to correct Texas air pollution control permits with loopholes that make state enforcement rare. The suits, to be filed Thursday, July 20, 2017, by the nonprofit Washington, D.C.-based Environmental Integrity Project, target permits for the largest integrated petrochemical factory in the U.S., three refineries near the Houston Ship Channel including the largest petroleum refinery in the U.S. and a coal-fired power plant east of Dallas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)
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FILE - In this Tuesday, June 28, 2011, file photo, an oil tanker is docked at the Exxon Mobile Baytown complex along the Houston Ship Channel in Baytown, Texas. Federal lawsuits against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will be filed claiming the agency has failed to correct Texas air pollution control permits with loopholes that make state enforcement rare. The suits, to be filed Thursday, July 20, 2017, by the nonprofit Washington, D.C.-based Environmental Integrity Project, target permits for the largest integrated petrochemical factory in the U.S., three refineries near the Houston Ship Channel including the largest petroleum refinery in the U.S. and a coal-fired power plant east of Dallas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)
