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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    The Fight Over California Drought Legislation

    The House of Representatives passed a drought relief bill earlier this week that would pave the way for water from Northern California to be diverted to Southern California and the Central Valley during winter storms.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Dec 11, 2014 • 1 min read

    The House of Representatives passed a drought relief bill earlier this week that would pave the way for water from Northern California to be diverted to Southern California and the Central Valley during winter storms. We look at the behind-the-scenes wheeling and dealing over the bill, the fight heating up between agribusiness and environmentalists, and why the measure is likely to stall in the midst of it all.

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      Madeleine Brand

      Host, 'Press Play'

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      Andrew Walsh

      Too Beautiful to Live

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      Christian Bordal

      Managing Producer, Greater LA

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      Matt Holzman

      Producer, 'The Document'

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      Michael Hiltzik

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    The full episode

    2 of 5
    Predicting Rain, Military Sexual Assaults, and Abercrombie’s Outlandish CEO
    1. 0:00Predicting Precipitation in California
    2. 10:18The Fight Over California Drought Legislation You’re reading this
    3. 17:42Sexual Assault in the Military
    4. 27:25The Supreme Elite
    5. 42:36Abercrombie and the Strange World of Clothing CEOs
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