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Environmentalists Oppose Westlands’ Bid to Secure Water

WASHINGTON — The Interior Department proposes to award one of the first contracts for federal water in perpetuity to a powerful rural California water district that had long employed Secretary David Bernhardt as a lobbyist. "The Interior Department needs to...

Jury Awards $289M to Man Who Blames Roundup for Cancer

SAN FRANCISCO — A jury's $289 million award to a former school groundskeeper who said Monsanto's Roundup left him dying of cancer will bolster thousands of pending cases and open the door for countless people who blame their suffering on the weed killer, the m...