By Steve Scauzillo, San Gabriel Valley Tribune

Record winter rainfall may have vanquished the state’s five-year drought, but that hasn’t stopped Californians from conserving water.

By Esmeralda Bermudez, Los Angeles Times

When Miguel Luna began to wear the little black pin, he wasn’t sure how people would react. “I’m either going to get hugged or I’m going to get punched,” he told his wife.

By Louis Sahagun, Los Angeles Times

The Audubon Society intended to connect with people it had all but ignored in the past when it built an urban nature center in 2003 on a swath of rolling grasslands northeast of downtown.

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.