Jeff Chiu
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AP
California regulators adopted a drinking water limit on toxic hexavalent chromium, a chemical compound made infamous by the movie “Erin Brockovich."
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A federal appeals court has upheld California's authority to set its own nation-leading vehicle emission standards that are the strictest in the country.
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