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California’s Vehicle Emissions Fight Continues a 50-Year Struggle

California’s Vehicle Emissions Fight Continues a 50-Year Struggle

California’s resistance to federal plans loosening vehicle emissions standards is nothing new. Over the decades, the state has fought…
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Strawberry Fields Forever? Thirsty Baja California Turns to Seawater to Grow Lucrative Crop

Strawberry Fields Forever? Thirsty Baja California Turns to Seawate...

An arid region 180 miles south of Tijuana is the crossroads where strawberries, economics, and groundwater meet. Baja usually gets less…
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Under New Pollution Regulations, Milk Producers Seek Profit in Dairy Air

Under New Pollution Regulations, Milk Producers Seek Profit in Dair...

From tests on metal bovines to electricity-generating manure pits, California is experiencing a radical transformation in the practices of…
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Are Forest Managers Robbing the Future to Pay for Present-Day Fires?

Are Forest Managers Robbing the Future to Pay for Present-Day Fires?

In the federal government, wildfires have a lesser claim on disaster funds. As fires burn with greater magnitude and frequency, the cost of…
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Changing Currents: Picturing a Northwest Without Cheap, Public Hydropower

Changing Currents: Picturing a Northwest Without Cheap, Public Hydr...

By Felicity Barringer
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The Short Life of The BLM’s Master Leasing Plans

The Short Life of The BLM’s Master Leasing Plans

Master Leasing Plans were intended to manage resource conflicts on public lands that border national parks and monuments, contain popular…
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Painful Experience Helps to Chart the Future of Groundwater in Ventura County

Painful Experience Helps to Chart the Future of Groundwater in Vent...

The fraught statewide conditions that led to passage of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act in 2014? They afflicted Ventura decades…
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By Treating Obstacles to Health, Community Health Workers Also Treat a Troubled System

By Treating Obstacles to Health, Community Health Workers Also Trea...

Welcome to the world of community health workers. The job, part medical aide and part social worker, is a tradition in poor and rural…
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Decarbonizing California’s Energy Diet

Decarbonizing California’s Energy Diet

California’s ambitious energy goals may lead the state toward an economy far less reliant on carbon-based fuels than ever before. But how…
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Lower Basin States Work to Keep Lake Mead Afloat

Lower Basin States Work to Keep Lake Mead Afloat

Lake Mead on the Colorado River has become an hourglass of shrinking water supplies. Can lower-basin states turn back the clock?
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In Other Words, Water

In Other Words, Water

From multiple tongues came multiple terms for how water flows, and how it works in the West.
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To Save Crops, Farmers Took Groundwater. Then the Land Sank

To Save Crops, Farmers Took Groundwater. Then the Land Sank

Like the topsoil, structures built 40 years ago to contain floodwaters are cracking, too.
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Beyond the Coal Boom: Powder River Basin Residents Look to a Diversified Future

Beyond the Coal Boom: Powder River Basin Residents Look to a Divers...

By Alan Propp
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Conservation Underground: Researchers Propose a Way to Block Subsurface Exploitation

Conservation Underground: Researchers Propose a Way to Block Subsur...

By Felicity Barringer
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The Southwest’s Orphan Disease Thrives on Ignorance

The Southwest’s Orphan Disease Thrives on Ignorance

By Felicity Barringer
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You and Us and the West

You and Us and the West

The veteran journalist Felicity Barringer introduces the Bill Lane Center’s news blog, & the West, which will feature reports, interviews…
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What If California Had Won the 1963 Case Over the Division of the Colorado River?

What If California Had Won the 1963 Case Over the Division of the C...

This is the first of a series of occasional posts looking at at how the West would have changed if a major historical event had — or had…
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In the Pacific Northwest, Native Fishing Rights Take on a Role as Environmental Protector

In the Pacific Northwest, Native Fishing Rights Take on a Role as E...

By Felicity Barringer
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To Manage Groundwater, California Must First Get Basin Boundaries Right

To Manage Groundwater, California Must First Get Basin Boundaries R...

For decades, landowners were free to pump water from under their land at will. Now a landmark 2014 law sets up new bosses who will call the…
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Weighing the Future of Bears Ears Butte

Weighing the Future of Bears Ears Butte

A major land-use decision still sits on the desk of President Barack Obama.
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