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-- Kathryn Waer, San Carlos

Environment

Business Group Loses 'Green' Members in Global-Warming Fight

Some companies on the Implementation Group's membership list no longer exist, or their executives were surprised to learn of the group's efforts to alter the global-warming law.

The Wobbly (Vital) Water Supply

The story behind San Diego's newly tenuous Colorado River supply.

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No Solutions for Rural Water Pollution Problem

A decade after a law required the state to reduce water pollution from septic systems, nothing has happened. Residents of one East County village still fear their tap water.

The Water Pollution Cop

The man responsible for policing, monitoring and enforcing water quality laws talks about bay and border pollution -- and whether he'd eat a fish from San Diego Bay.