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C-WIN: More special treatment for the powerful at the expense of ratepayers

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State legislators must vote down AB 2215 By Max Gomberg, Senior Policy Analyst, California Water Impact Network When a government agency demands special treatment to expedite “critical” projects, we should be skeptical. Invariably, the claimed need benefits a politically powerful industry that wants to avoid transparency and accountability. Currently, such “special treatment” arguments are being made to advance multiple harmful projects, from ICE concentration camps to AI data centers. In California, proponents of corporate agriculture and desert development are making the same […]

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