By Maria Mehranian & Adán Ortega

Bans against ex-parte discussions with regulators. Potential third-party lawsuits. Threatened court challenges against enforcement authority of regulators.

By Tony Barboza, Los Angeles Times

In a rare intervention, county health officials ordered two Paramount metal-processing plants to stop emissions of hexavalent chromium or shut down operations contributing to high levels of the cancer-causing air pollutant.

By Adán Ortega, Jr., Ortega Strategies Group

In 2011 I had an unexpected epiphany about “white” people and water infrastructure. In the midst of a blinding migraine headache, I attended a forum in Fresno on the subject of racism.

By Adán Ortega, Ortega Strategies Group

The term “Disadvantaged Community” (“DACs”) is loaded with unspoken connotations that must be dispelled, especially as it relates to water.

By Adán Ortega, Ortega Strategies Group

Not a month goes by that an investor or an inventor comes by our office looking to market water related services and technologies in California.

By Adán Ortega, Ortega Strategies Group

With wide acceptance of climate change, Californians have an opportunity to create a common heritage through a new approach to public investments.

By Adán Ortega, Ortega Strategies Group

Recent news about easing water use restrictions by California water agencies encourages the false impression that the drought is over.

By Steve Scauzillo, San Gabriel Valley Tribune

Water or trains?  A ballot measure proposed by two Southern California Republicans asks voters to make that choice by siphoning more than $8 billion from the high-speed rail bond measure into surface and ground-water storage, making water the No. 1 priority in the state.

By Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times

Employers at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach will no longer order dockworkers to unload ships at night, a move they contend will help relieve crushing congestion on the waterfront.