LOS ANGELES— A federal judge has vacated a U.S. Bureau of Land Management decision that would have allowed Cadiz Inc. to repurpose a mothballed oil-and-gas pipeline to drain a large aquifer in the ...
The right-of-way would facilitate Cadiz’s groundwater-mining scheme to drain ancient aquifers under the Mojave Desert to feed sprawling new developments in Southern California. “This deeply flawed ...