Snowpack Preservation

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A growing number of businesses are breaking ranks with the oil and auto industries and saying they believe in global warming and they want the United States to do something about it. In California, the ski industry sees itself as the guardian of a declining snowpack and it’s decided to speak up about it. Andrea Kissack of KQED reports.

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