.Feintstein Backs Off Water Grab

US Senator Dianne Feinstein has dropped her attempt to take water from the fragile Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta and give it to agribusiness interests in the dry southern and western Central Valley. Feinstein backed off her plan because precipitation in the past few months convinced state and federal regulators to provide more water than expected for farmers. Feinstein had proposed suspending the federal Endangered Species Act in order to increase water supplies for agriculture.

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