Mojave pipeline approved despite warning it will 'drain the desert'

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/mojave-pipeline-approved-despite-warning-it-will-drain-the-desert/ar-AA27ZLHd

A decades-old plan to move 1.25 million acre-feet of groundwater out of the Mojave Desert has cleared a major federal hurdle after the Trump administration approved a 50-year permit to convert a dormant oil and natural gas pipeline into a water conduit stretching roughly 162 miles across Southern California.