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Businesses that need environmental permits are caught in the middle of a feud between Gov. Jay Nixon and the Legislature.

The Department of Water and Power hardly needs the water. But it's critical to the Eastern Sierra Nevada's environment and its Indigenous people.

The Department of Water and Power hardly needs the water. But it's critical to the Eastern Sierra Nevada's environment and its Indigenous people.

Half the nation’s wetlands just lost federal protection. Their fate is up to states. Supreme Court’s narrowing of the Clean Water Act has left some states scrambling to enact safeguards and others questioning whether regulators can handle workload

Last month, a U.S. Supreme Court decision struck down federal protections for wetlands covering tens of millions of acres across the country, leaving no regulation of those areas in nearly half the states.

States’ to-do lists just got a little longer: Decide how — or whether — to oversee building, planting and water quality in some wetland areas.

States’ to-do lists just got a little longer: Decide how — or whether — to oversee building, planting and water quality in some wetland areas.

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Los Angeles students gathered on May 25 for a beach clean-up and human art formation for Kids Ocean Day.

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