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How a Fresno judge shut down landmark environmental suit against Caltrans’ Highway 99 expansion

On the coast of Monterey in the early 1990s, residents of Carmel-by-the-Sea went to federal court to stop Caltrans from building a freeway through Hatton Canyon, a stretch of wetlands and rare Monterey pines just east of town. Caltrans’ plan called for a new bridge over the Carmel River, two new interchanges, and a widening […]

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