No one’s breathing easy in the nation’s new megawarehouse hub

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By Emma Foehringer MerchantMay 30, 2017, 5:00 am152 pts
Just a few decades ago, California’s Inland Empire billed itself as “the Orange Empire” for the citrus orchards that fueled its primary industry. Today, many of those groves are gone, and so is the nickname. The landlocked region of 4 million people an hour east of Los Angeles now sprouts more enormous…

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