What We're Reading: Top State Stories 3/13 - The Pew Charitable Trusts
The Biden administration will formally approve a huge oil drilling project in Alaska known as Willow, according to two people familiar with the decision, despite widespread opposition because of its likely environmental and climate impacts. The president also will impose sweeping restrictions on offshore oil leasing in the Arctic Ocean and across Alaska’s North Slope in an apparent effort to temper criticism over the Willow decision.
TX: Texas bill would allow state to ‘repel’ and return migrants crossing from Mexico
Texas Republican House Speaker Dade Phelan threw his support behind a bill that would create a state unit of officers empowered to “repel” and arrest migrants crossing the border outside a port of entry and return migrants to Mexico if they were seen trying to illegally cross the border. The bill would test the boundaries of the state’s ability to enforce immigration law, which courts have historically ruled falls under federal purview.
CA: Flush with rain, California plans to replenish drought-depleted groundwater with floodwaters
With torrential rains drenching California, state water regulators have endorsed a plan to divert floodwaters from the San Joaquin River to replenish groundwater that has been depleted by heavy agricultural pumping during three years of record drought.
MN: Minnesota pushes to abolish subminimum wages for people with disabilities
More than 4,000 Minnesotans with disabilities earn less...
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