California in Crisis: Green state chokes off its middle class

By Conn Carroll

Published February 28, 2013 5:00am ET

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California in Crisis: Green state chokes off its middle class — The five-centimeter-long Delta smelt was listed as threatened under the California Endangered Species Act in 1993. Since then, environmentalists have used the fish to drain millions of gallons of water from farms in California's Central Valley. (Photo: B. Moose Peterson/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)

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For all the bed-wetting environmentalists do over how climate change might affect the present ecosystems of California, they always seem to conveniently forget what the state looked like before it joined the Union.

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