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Inside California’s fight to fix its water crisis

The story of California’s water wars begins, as so many stories do in the Golden State, with gold.

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Government, farmers working together achieve historic reductions in ag emissions

Agricultural vehicles, including tractors and harvesters, have contributed to the San Joaquin Valley's gargantuan air problem. Now they're also part of the solution.

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California’s San Joaquin Valley is on the front line of climate change. How will it adapt?

Home to more than 4 million people, the vast San Joaquin Valley lies flat and low between the Sierra Nevada and the Southern Coast Range and has long been prone to climate hazards.

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The carbon removal project that puts communities in the driver's seat

A California coalition will use federal funding to explore a new way of designing direct air capture hubs — one where locals get veto power.
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Central Valley farmers are having a climate reckoning

One of California's thirstiest, Trumpiest water districts is going through a political transformation.
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‘Stay out of the water’: what lurks below California’s zombie lake?

Winter storms inundated an industrial agricultural area the size of Lake Tahoe, flooding fields, homes and electricity grids.

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Planning for environmental justice for all

Local planning, often a reason communities of color face worse pollution, is changing in California after a 2016 law. A new study offers lessons learned for planners nationwide.

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