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Apr. 1, 2013
Collision Course
Central Valley farmers are using CEQA - the state's premiere environmental protection statute - to keep high-speed trains from being routed across their land.
No one would describe the countryside around the San Joaquin Valley town of Madera as beautiful. It is a working landscape in the most fundamental sense: a patchwork of almond orchards, vineyards, alfalfa fields, and dairy farms. The terrain is flat. On clear days you can see the looming mass of the Sierra Nevada to the east, and the less precipitous Diablo Range to the west. Most days, however, are not clear; the air is murky with dust, copious emissions from the endless lines of traf...
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