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Greens have the wrong priorities

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The Wall Street Journal

California’s political leaders are climate-obsessed, so why have they allowed the water from this winter’s storms to go to waste? asks The Wall Street Journal. One issue is the state’s lack of investment in infrastructure, particularly storage and flood control. Few large water projects have been built since the 1970s. The result: 95% of storm water flowing into the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta has just been “flushed” into the Pacific Ocean and reservoirs south of the

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