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Immigration Raids are an Attack on Climate

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The Drain is a weekly roundup of environmental and climate news from Legal Planet.

It’s hard to watch the Trump administration test drive authoritarianism in California. Since the inauguration, I’ve found solace in slowly rewatching The West Wing, a good bedtime story for anyone who feels nostalgia for partisan politics of yesteryear. Anyone else doing this? It’s uncanny how my rewatching has lined up with real world events. In …

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Immigration Raids are an Attack on Climate

The Drain is a weekly roundup of environmental and climate news from Legal Planet.