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Search results for "San Joaquin Valley" ...
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Last Gasp
The Fresno Bee reports on increasing smog in the San Joaquin Valley. Some of the major findings are that as Los Angeles air gets cleaner, the Valley's smog problem is worsening; state and federal officials have failed to pay attention to the pollution in the area; polluting vehicles and diesel engines are common in the Valley; agricultural businesses are exempted from air pollution permits; small-particle pollution, connected to high death rates nationwide, presents an even bigger problem than the smog.
Tags: smog; air quality; air pollution; San Joaquin Valley; small-particle pollution; diesel engines; agricultural pollution; EPA; environment; wildlife; health; asthma; children; ozone cleanup; scientific research; automobile emissions; cars; database mapping project
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Rescuing the San Joaquin
The Fresno Bee reports that "Environmentalists say (the San Joaquin) is dying; a farming empire depends on it. Can we restore a river without devastating an economy? ... The federal government (60 years ago) dammed the state's second-longest river to save Valley farmers from economic ruin at the end of the Great Depression, an exchange of natural wonders for water that now supports a multibillion-dollar farming empire...Today the river appears poised to turn on the Valley it was engineered to sustain. The San Joaquin River has made the list of the nation's 10 most endangered rivers....The river needs a good flush to clean out pollutants and revive wildlife and habitat, but there isn't enough water to do that in most years. In past decades, water for farmland has been given priority over water for fish. That thinking started to change in 1988...."
Tags: agriculture; EPA; Supreme Court; litigation; farmers; environmentalists
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The Making of Bonecrusher
A former guard in the Security Housing Unit at Corcoran State Prison in San Joaquin Valley, CA tells of corruption, murder, staged gladiator-like fights bet. prisoners orchestrated by guards, and abuse in one of California's most notorious new prisons. Roscoe Pondexter, a guard and member of the elite prison guard group known as the Sharks, who began his career as a seemingly nice, fair man, becomes known as 'Bonecrusher' for his ability to inflict injury without but not break bones.
Tags: prison; Corcoran; corruption; gangs
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Contract with the Valley
The Fresno Bee looks at how federal money is spent in the San Joaquin Valley. "Congress is trying to reduce government spending and regulations, but can the Valley live without the federal government and the billions of dollars it pumps into local economies?... A computer study by The Bee shows that federal funds reach into every level of Valley life..."
Tags: CAR federal loans guarantees payments grants subsidies entitlements farm programs
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Selenium The Poisoning of America
Sacramento Bee uncovers a conspiracy of silence surrounding selenium contamination of water, wildlife and livestock throughout the west, and finds that the Department of Interior suppressed efforts to study selenium's lethal effects.
Tags: San Joaquin Valley; Kesterson National Wildlife Refuge; Selenium
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APF Reporter tells of the problems of resettlement of the Hmong refugees of Laos, almost half of whom live in California's San Joaquin Valley, Fall 1985.
Tags: Sherman Hmong CA
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No title (id: 2781)
United Press International runs series on how a large federal water project has resulted in the pollution of farmland and wildlife refuges in California's San Joaquin Valley, Aug. 13 - 17, 1984.
Tags: CA Gordon Carter
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No title (id: 2697)
Stockton (Calif.) Record series investigates the work of the U.S. Border Patrol in California and the problems of undocumented workers in the San Joaquin Valley; reporter worked peach orchards to talk with workers about Border Patrol raids, February - April 1984.