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Pipeline skipped environmental review, would drain Mojave of precious water

The Court GRANTS the Motion for Voluntary Remand and vacates the rights-of-way in light of the Bureau of Land Management’s reconsideration of Cadiz’s application.

Thankfully, the arm of the law is longer today than it was a century ago.

This case challenges a December 21, 2020 decision by defendants to issue a private company, Cadiz, rights-of-way to convey water through a mothballed oil and gas pipeline that crosses Mojave Trails National Monument and other protected public land in southeastern California

Cadiz water pipeline skipped full environmental review, would drain Mojave Desert of precious water supply

Private sector cannot profit from public necessity

Earthjustice successfully challenged Cadiz, Inc.’s plans to sell contaminated groundwater from a fragile ecosystem in southern California.

The new acting Interior Secretary, David Bernhardt, has been described as a "walking conflict of interest."

Our client’s declaration about the impacts the Cadiz project would have on the desert.

Conservation and health-safety groups have filed suit in federal court challenging the Trump administration’s approval of an enormous groundwater-mining and pipeline project in Southern California. The Cadiz water project, approved without environmental review, includes the construction of a pipeline through the Mojave Trails National Monument and other public lands in the area.

The Cadiz water project, approved without environmental review, includes the construction of a pipeline through the Mojave Trails National Monument and other public lands in the area. The Trump administration reversed two Obama administration decisions and wrongly concluded that the Cadiz project’s 43-mile pipeline did not require any federal Bureau of Land Management permits or…

Conservation and health-safety groups have filed suit in federal court challenging the Trump administration’s approval of an enormous groundwater-mining and pipeline project in Southern California. The Cadiz water project, approved without environmental review, includes the construction of a pipeline through the Mojave Trails National Monument and other public lands in the area.

Water-mining project would deplete life-giving springs in the Mojave Trails National Monument

El proyecto Cádiz aprobado por la administración Trump amenaza al borrego cimarrón y otras especies