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Water bills are climbing as utilities clean up a chemical made infamous in “Erin Brockovich.” Should lawmakers give them cover as work continues?
A new study has ranked the US states in order of how well they would fare in the event of a nuclear apocalypse.
The initiative kicked off in earnest two years later when officials released a detailed road map for the plan ... an additional 853,000 acres of land and 191,000 acres of water were conserved in ...
The Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations is pivoting after state and federal regulators closed the commercial salmon fishing season for an unprecedented third year in a row.
Southern California’s two largest water agencies announced Monday that they have settled a 15-year legal dispute over the price of water transferred between them.
Farmers argue for local control of California’s water amid shifting federal policies, emphasizing the need for stable, science-based water access.
But the so-called war over California’s water is a dangerous, flawed trope that reduces certain water uses to right or wrong and turns the Delta into a place with no local stakes.
California water wars: A century of wrangling over Los Angeles’s water The battle for California’s water pitted ranchers against water barons and still echoes today.
Another player in California’s high-stakes water game emerged eight years ago when Donald Trump became president for the first time. He forcefully backed farmers in their conflict with state ...
Donald Trump’s California water order does more for farms than wildfires The state’s Republican farmers are an emerging force but still fear tariffs and deportations.
Trump's order is premised on the idea that increasing Delta pumping would make more water available for the rest of California. But experts say its more complicated than that.