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Texas Rice Farmers Face Water Shortage

AP | RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI | Posted 05.02.2012

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HOUSTON (AP) — Thousands of Texas rice farmers won't get water for irrigation this year because lakes and rivers remain low after more than a year o...

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Unprecedented: Thousands Of Rice Farmers May Not Get Water Due To Drought

AP | RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI | Posted 04.22.2012

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LISSIE, Texas (AP) — Five generations of Ronald Gertson's family have tilled the claylike soil of southeast Texas to grow rice, confident that no ma...

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EPA Gives Out First Texas Greenhouse Gas Permit

AP | By RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI | Posted 01.10.2012

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HOUSTON -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday awarded a greenhouse gas permit to a Texas plant, the first the federal agency has iss...

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