The Trump administration has removed a major regulatory obstacle to a plan to pump water from beneath the Mojave Desert and sell it to Southern California coastal cities. The move is prompting outrage from critics who say it would destroy a pristine environment to benefit a private company. The company, Los Angeles-based Cadiz Inc., praised the Bureau of Land Management’s March 29 decision to reverse an Obama administration...

Source: Wall Street Journal April 06, 2017 02:37 UTC