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Feds Say Railroad Must Deliver Grain to California Chickens
Jan. 2, 2023, 4 p.m.Federal regulators have ordered Union Pacific railroad to make sure a livestock producer gets the grain it needs in California to prevent millions of chickens and hundreds of thousands of cattle from starving.
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Groundwater Depletion Accelerating in California’s Central Valley
Dec. 26, 2022, 4 p.m.Scientists have discovered that heavy agricultural pumping has drawn down aquifer levels to new lows and now threatens to devastate the underground water reserves.
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