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In the high desert of Central Oregon, the Deschutes River is a lifeline for farmers and landowners -- but a century-old water law entitles just a few thousand people to more than half of its volume.

By law, one irrigation district has rights to most of the water from the Deschutes, forcing farmers to fallow their land in times of scarcity. Oregon has pushed three main solutions to deliver water more efficiently and sustainably.

How the fossil fuel industry turned the plan to solve climate change into a plan to save itself ...

As global leaders look to tech advances to solve climate change, one leading idea involves capturing carbon pollution from the air and burying it underground forever. While carbon capture may sound practical, there is no conceivable way it can work.

BP sponsored an elite Princeton research center to address the climate problem without getting off fossil fuels. Its key work, a paper known as "Wedges," guided climate discourse for a generation.

A court inquiry alleges that top leaders at the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office undermined efforts to comply with mandated reforms brought on by a long-running racial profiling lawsuit and settlement.

Gov. Mike Kehoe says "out-of-state special interests" are influencing citizen-led efforts to amend the state constitution. His own ballot measure, a push to eliminate the state income tax, has received $1.9M from a mysterious Delaware nonprofit.

In a civil case stemming from a joint ProPublica-Sahan Journal investigation, a home seller has been found liable in a ploy that targeted East African Muslims in Minneapolis, marketing deceptive real estate deals as "sharia compliant."

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