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This is the May 6, 2021, edition of Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment in California and the American West. Sign up here to get it in your inbox.
Conservationists in California and across the West are deeply skeptical of hydropower, and it’s not hard to see why. There’s a long history of government agencies damming spectacular canyons, choking off rivers, obliterating fish populations and cutting off access to Indigenous peoples. It’s a history detailed in books such as “Cadillac Desert,” and experienced by anyone who has spent time fishing, kayaking or swimming in the region’s reshaped waterways, or hiking alongside them.
Protests over George Floyd s killing included one in Miami May 31, 2020, (Hanna Tverdokhib/Dreamstime.com)
By Lynne Perri
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Over the course of 2020, the Investigative Reporting Workshop produced 20 investigations into subject areas we’ve focused on since we began publishing 11 years ago: Banking, immigration, health and the environment.
Nearly 1 million people in small, disadvantaged California communities are divided from their neighbors by a lack of access to safe and affordable drinking water. (Lance M. Yamamoto)
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Our environmental coverage grew and included two major projects on water use, one in California, where an unincorporated town has endured 12 years of having to use bottled water, and another in Florida, where the state’s largest freshwater lake continues to have high phosphorus levels, creating a growing algae problem.