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Overharvesting, farming and urban development top list of threats
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Despite legislative attempts to block full protection, most Californians favor preserving huge swaths of the California Desert.
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U.S. Fish And Wildlife Service staff said the agency's eagle "take permit" policy was unsound. Now a federal judge has backed them up.
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Environmental groups say the government isn't discussing alternatives to large tunnels to shunt water around the Delta.
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It's a complicated estuary where water from 75,000 square miles of California and sometimes Oregon drains into the Pacific, and it doesn't really have a name.
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Mendocino County has decided to hold off on renewing its contract with the predator-killing agency Wildlife Services.
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Life in California may change quite a bit after Governor Brown's emergency Executive Order this week.
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The EPA's feedback may cause the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan's authors even more work.
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Californians are weighing in on how much smog is too much.
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An Inland Empire lawmaker is backing legislation aimed at making the paper trail of records connected with environmental impact reports easier to find and follow.
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As a fourth severe drought year looms, it's no surprise that a lot of the laws passed in California in 2014 pertain to water.
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Now that the festivities are mostly over for the year, I'll let you in on a little secret: I don't think much of Earth Day.
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