President Donald Trump followed through on his promise to unleash California’s water — only the water he released belonged to the very farmers he’d promised to help.
Despite facing some hesitancy among green groups in her home state, the vice president has embraced the cause since her time as San Francisco district attorney.
The regulation is a major win for advocates from communities with contaminated drinking water who have sought an enforceable limit on the chemicals for years.
The hard-fought negotiations over how to share the pain from shrinking water supplies will affect tens of millions of people and powerful farming interests.