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Country's biggest solar project moving ahead in California

NPR | By Dan Charles
Published February 24, 2026 at 2:42 AM MST

An enormous solar project is moving forward in California, on land that farmers have had to keep fallow as the state restricts over-pumping the aquifers they previously used to irrigate crops.

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Dan Charles
Dan Charles is NPR's food and agriculture correspondent.
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