Bloomberg Law
May 18, 2017, 6:25 PM UTC

Lobbying by Trump Interior Department Nominee Raises Concerns

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By Ari Natter and Jennifer A Dlouhy, Bloomberg News

Donald Trump’s election has been a boon for backers of a controversial plan to pump billions of gallons of water from a Mojave Desert aquifer to Southern California -- including one of the president’s nominees.

David Bernhardt, nominated to be the No. 2 official in the Interior Department, has been a paid consultant to the water project’s developer,Cadiz Inc., and his law firm, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP, stands to collect millions of dollars in stock options from the company if the project clears federal regulatory hurdles and meets ...

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