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This still photo from video provided by KNBC-TV shows a home that has escaped damage as flames burned past it above Mandeville Canyon Road in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles, Sunday, May 28, 2017. Ground crews got help from water-dropping aircraft battling two brush fires in Los Angeles Sunday. The fire scorched several acres of dry brush. To the northeast, a fire was burning away from foothill homes in the Lake View Terrace neighborhood and into Angeles National Forest. (KNBC-TV Via AP)
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This still photo from video provided by KNBC-TV shows Mandeville Canyon Road, lower left, and large burned area in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles Sunday, May 28, 2017. Ground crews got help from water-dropping aircraft battling two brush fires in Los Angeles Sunday. The fire scorched several acres of dry brush. To the northeast, a fire was burning away from foothill homes in the Lake View Terrace neighborhood and into Angeles National Forest. (KNBC-TV Via AP)
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A helicopter makes a water drop on a hillside after a wildfire broke out in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles, Sunday, May 28, 2017. A dark plume of smoke was visible for miles as the fire consumed moderate to thick brush near Mandeville Canyon Road, a dead end road that snakes up a deep canyon lined by expensive view homes. A few residents voluntarily left but no homes were damaged. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)
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A helicopter makes a water drop on a hillside after a wildfire broke out in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles, Sunday, May 28, 2017. A dark plume of smoke was visible for miles as the fire consumed moderate to thick brush near Mandeville Canyon Road, a dead end road that snakes up a deep canyon lined by expensive view homes. A few residents voluntarily left but no homes were damaged. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)
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Firefighters, lower right, work to contain a wildfire that broke out in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles, Sunday, May 28, 2017. A dark plume of smoke was visible for miles as the fire consumed moderate to thick brush near Mandeville Canyon Road, a dead end road that snakes up a deep canyon lined by expensive view homes. A few residents voluntarily left but no homes were damaged. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)
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Mountaingate Residents watch a wildfire near their home in Brentwood, Calif., Sunday, May 28. 2017. Ground crews getting help from water-dropping aircraft are battling two brush fires in Los Angeles. A small blaze Sunday near large homes in the Mandeville Canyon area above Brentwood is sending up a huge plume of smoke visible for miles. (David Crane/Los Angeles Daily News via AP)
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FILE - In this July 25, 2014, file photo, a black bear is seen at the Maine Wildlife Park in Gray, Maine. Nuisance bear complaints are an annual rite of spring in Maine, and state officials said they have begun this year. Bears emerge from hibernation hungry and many of the natural foods they eat in the wild, such as fruits and nuts, are not yet available. This sometimes causes them to seek human food from garbage cans and back porches. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2016, file photo, a truck carries a load at the Nucor Steel plant in Seattle. Even as the Trump administration seeks to roll back Obama-era rules to curb greenhouse gas emissions at coal-fired power plants, Washington state is forging ahead with its own rules to cap carbon pollution from big industrial facilities. But the state faces legal challenges as it begins requiring large polluters such as Nucor Steel. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)
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FILE - In this June 1, 2016, file photo, piles of wood chips sit near the RockTenn paper mill in Tacoma, Wash. Even as the Trump administration seeks to roll back Obama-era rules to curb greenhouse gas emissions at coal-fired power plants, Washington state is forging ahead with its own rules to cap carbon pollution from big industrial facilities. But the state faces legal challenges as it begins requiring large polluters such as RockTenn. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
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Demonstrators shout slogans during an anti-G7 rally near the venue of the G7 summit in the Sicilian town of Taormina, Italy, Saturday, May 27, 2017. A summit of the leaders of the world's wealthiest democracies has ended without a unanimous agreement on climate change, as the Trump administration plans to take more time to say whether the U.S. is going to remain in the Paris climate deal. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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FILE - This June 19, 2001 file photo shows pockets of melted snow and rain that formed small pools of water in an area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. President Donald Trump’s proposed budget calls for opening the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling. The refuge takes up an area the size of West Virginia and Connecticut combined in the northeast corner of Alaska. (AP Photo/Al Grillo, file)
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Sen. Lisa Murkowski's support is tied to a bill — which would be wrapped into the tax package — that would open 2,000 acres of ANWR to oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (Associated Press/File)
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FILE - This undated aerial file photo provided by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a herd of caribou on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northeast Alaska. President Donald Trump’s proposed budget calls for opening the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling. The refuge takes up an area the size of West Virginia and Connecticut combined in the northeast corner of Alaska. (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via AP, file)
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ADVANCE FOR RELEASE SATURDAY, MAY 27, 2017, AT 12:01 A.M. CDT. - In this April 17, 2017, Lloyd Williams plants seeds at The Homestead Farm in Pleasant Hill, Iowa. (Rodney White/The Des Moines Register via AP)
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This Wednesday, May 24, 2017, photo, shows Theodore Roosevelt National Park, in western North Dakota which is known for its hills, ridges, buttes and bluffs where millions of years of erosion have exposed colorful sedimentary rock layers. A company wants to build an oil refinery about 3 miles from the park, but some worry about air pollution in the park. (AP Photo/Blake Nicholson)
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In this Wednesday, May 24, 2017, photo, a smokestack from an Old West-era meatpacking plant is shown in Theodore Roosevelt National Park in western North Dakota. The park is known for hills, ridges, buttes and bluffs where millions of years of erosion have exposed colorful sedimentary rock layers. A company wants to build an oil refinery about 3 miles from the park, but some worry about air pollution in the park.(AP Photo/Blake Nicholson)
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In this Wednesday, May 24, 2017, photo, a bison munches grass in Theodore Roosevelt National Park in western North Dakota. A company wants to build an oil refinery about 3 miles from the park, but some worry about air pollution in the park. (AP Photo/Blake Nicholson)
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FILE - In this Dec. 12, 2015, file photo, French President Francois Hollande, right, French Foreign Minister and president of the COP21 Laurent Fabius, second right, United Nations climate chief Christiana Figueres, left, and United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon hold their hands up in celebration after the final conference at the COP21, the United Nations conference on climate change, in Le Bourget, north of Paris. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)
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In this photo taken May 23, 2017, President Donald Trump meets Pope Francis at the Vatican. Earth is likely to hit more dangerous levels of warming even sooner if the U.S. pulls back from its pledge to cut carbon dioxide pollution because America contributes so much to rising temperatures, scientists said. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool)
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FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2015 file photo, a plume of steam billows from the coal-fired Merrimack Station in Bow, N.H. Earth is likely to hit more dangerous levels of warming even sooner if the U.S. pulls back from its pledge to cut carbon dioxide pollution because America contributes so much to rising temperatures, scientists said. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)
