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After spending years promoting cutting-edge science as the savior of fish, environmentalists have cast science aside to support Senate Bill 1. Why? Power.
Senate Bill 559, which would send $400 million to repair the canal, is being converted into a “two-year bill” giving legislators additional time to act.
While working to open their own pistachio processing plant, the Assemi family launched a legal fight over their final crop delivery to Wonderful Pistachios.
Amendments to the state legislature’s marquee water bill didn’t mollify opponents. Now, signs are emerging that the bill may be punted into 2020.
Crop value and ag production is at an all-time high in Fresno County, a new report from the Fresno County Ag Commissioner said this week.
As Democratic lawmakers voice greater concern, newly-released amendments to SB 1 leave unresolved questions about its impact on Federal water projects.
Asm. Adam Gray (D-Merced) did not mince words in describing the impact of the California Legislature’s marquee water bill ahead of its final consideration.
Why would a Valley lawmaker supporting a bill to save jobs, farms, and clean water for communities, later vote for a different bill denying all of that?
A new poll from Harvard University and the Harris Poll shines a light onto current trade battles between President Donald Trump’s administration and China,
Senate Bill 1, California’s pre-emptive strike at the Trump administration’s moves on water deliveries, is headed for a vote in the state Assembly soon.
