water resources

California snowpack improves as new blizzard barrels in

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[ After a dry start to the West Coast winter, California snowpack levels showed considerable improvement Thursday, just as a multi-foot blizzard was about to barge into the Sierra Nevada region. Measurements conducted live at Phillips Station, just south of Lake Tahoe, revealed a snowpack depth of 47.5 inches, with a snow-water equivalent — the amount of … Read more

UAW campaign to organize Southeast carmakers gets into gear

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[ As of Wednesday morning, 30 percent of workers at the Mercedes-Benz facility outside Tuscaloosa, Ala., have voted to join the national union, according to a statement from UAW.     It also comes on the heels of last fall’s 40-day strike by around 50,000 UAW workers, who conducted simultaneous walkouts against the “Big Three” automakers — Ford, General Motors and Stellantis — in the upper Midwest and won sizable pay increases.  … Read more