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Though the incentive program has taken heat, it already has more applicants for its first round than were planned for in the whole program.
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An unprecedented coalition of Native people and other environmental activists fought the State of California to a standstill 15 years ago on a proposal to dump low-level nuclear waste in Ward Valley.
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It's one of those places in the California desert where you can find yourself 20 miles off the pavement without much problem. It's also where California almost put its final dump for low-level nuclear waste.
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If the campaign raises the visibility of rooftop solar as an issue, that's a win no matter who takes the oath of office.
Without the Clean Water Act, the fetid sewers in South Los Angeles and across town would waft the smell of rotten eggs.
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On the question of "Does the flow of water out of a concrete channel within a river rank as a 'discharge of a pollutant'?" The Supreme Court says "no."
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Would you pay over 1,000 times more for something you could get for free? That's exactly what happens approximately 85 million times every day with bottled water.
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The Interior Department says Southern California can expect to get a lot less water out of the Colorado River in the next 50 years.
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Each time it rains in L.A., a toxic soup of pollutants routinely make its way from the city's roadways and rooftops down to our waterways and oceans. A new measure may offer a partial solution.
This 1906 federal law allowed a city that was then about 400,000 people to grow to about four million today.
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In a decade, the Los Angeles River has become a rallying ground for Angelenos looking to reclaim a part of their history and revitalize their ecosystem.
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"Rock the Boat" chronicles the kayaking adventures of George Wolfe and how the L.A. River began to be transformed.
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