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NSPR News Brief: March 2

Here's your daily briefing...

Piled high and deep: While not quite a record, the Sierra Nevada snowpack is 185 percent of normal, according to yesterday’s official monthly measurement by the Department of Water Resources. While that’s fantastic news for growers, salmon and everyone else, officials point out that the state’s aquifers---an equally, if not more important source of water in California---have been greatly depleted.

Cap and trade stumbles and falls: California’s latest quarterly auction of pollution permits fell far short of the half billion officials hoped to raise to help pay for cleaner energy and fast trains. The sale raised just $8 million, the third time in four quarters that auctions fell short.

Is keeping clean bad for your health?: A Democratic lawmaker is pushing legislation in Sacramento that could force makers of household cleansers and other cleaning products to disclose their ingredients on labels. State Senator Ricardo Lara says people should know more about potentially dangerous chemicals. A trade group representing makers of cleaning products calls the bill “completely unnecessary.”

LaMalfa hears call, makes call: US Representative Doug LaMalfa (R-Richvale) answered a variety of questions from voters on a conference call Wednesday evening. LaMalfa reiterated the positions of the Trump administration on a number of issues during the mostly sedate hour-plus call, though there were a few sharp exchanges with voters.

Did you catch KQED’s California Report?: Following breaking revelations that US Attorney General Jeff Sessions met with Russian officials before the election and apparently lied to congress under oath about the incidents, has led House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to call on Sessions to resign…Federal immigration officials have altered how they screen applicants seeking asylum. Immigration lawyers say the new process makes it harder to get a case considered by a judge...A new University of California official is tasked with reforming how the nine-campus system responds to allegations of sexual misconduct…and an I.P.O.