Center For Biological Diversity: Suit Targets Trump Plan to Drain Mojave Desert

The Center for Biological Diversity and our allies just sued the Trump administration over its greenlighting of a private company’s plan to resurrect a defunct oil and gas pipeline to transport and sell groundwater out of California’s already-parched Mojave Desert. Operating the pipeline, which crosses Mojave Trails National Monument and other protected federal land, would dry up freshwater springs desert plants and animals desperately need. “The Trump administration is once again handing out favors to its cronies determined to suck the Mojave Desert dry,” said the Center’s Lisa Belenky. “Desert creatures like tortoises and bighorn sheep won’t survive if key springs and seeps they need are lost. That’s why we're determined to keep fighting this ill-conceived project.” Learn MORE.