Babak Naficy Law Offices

10/12/2021

the reality of water shortage and the plight of Native American tribes who rely on the Colorado River

ABC News' Kayna Whitworth reports on the drought in the southwest, where over 40 million people, including 29 Native American tribes, are forced to ration water as the Colorado River dries up.

01/31/2019

White Wolf

09/10/2018

Forum focuses on tenants rights and state rent control legislation.

12/12/2017

It's here. https://orionmagazine.org/special-35th-anniversary-issue/

10/27/2017

Morphine, people

09/02/2016

This is truly a nonpartisan issue. We should demand transparency regardless of who is opposed to it or would benefit from it.

Let’s start with the hug.

09/01/2016

California has already applied to EPA to have the Price Canyon aquifer declared NOT to be a source of drinking water just so the oil company can expand their operation and inject polluted wastewater back into the basin. This is very alarming indeed...

A little-known program under federal environment law is being used to permit oil and gas companies to inject waste into the state’s aquifers, even as the thirst for groundwater grows.

08/10/2016

The Rose Foundation has released a detailed study of the impacts of the California Environmental Quality Act, CEQA, on the economy and the environment. This report is a powerful response to those who blame everything from the housing crisis to unemployment on CEQA

http://rosefdn.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/CEQA-in-the-21st-Century.pdf

07/12/2016

If Republicans have their way, the POTUS would not be able to use his authority to designate national monuments.

Tribal leaders want Bears Ears to be a national monument, but Tea Party Republicans resist federal land protections

06/01/2016

About six years ago, on a fabulously sunny day in Malibu, it became abundantly clear how in the dark I was about coastal development in California.

05/16/2016

Legislation to ban members of the California Coastal Commission from meeting privately with developers, environmentalists, lobbyists and others promises to change the way the panel has operated since its inception 40 years ago — some for the better and some for the worse.