John Habib

Associate

Phoenix

Services

Biography

John Habib focuses his practice on all aspects of energy, natural resources, water, and regulatory affairs. He provides litigation and transactional counsel to clients facing issues related to federal, state, and local permitting, environmental compliance, renewable and fossil fuel development, water, land use, mining, and industry.

Credentials

Bar Admissions

Arizona

Court Admissions

Supreme Court of Arizona
United States District Court, District of Arizona

Education

Arizona State University, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law (J.D.)
- Willard H. Pedrick Scholar
- Order of the Barristers
- Joseph Feller Memorial Scholarship
- JURIMETRICS: The Journal of Law, Science, and Technology, Articles Editor
- ASU Moot Court Executive Board, President
- Environmental Law Society
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (B.S., Agricultural and Environmental Plant Science)

Experience

Previous Professional Experience

Snell & Wilmer, Summer Associate (2020)
Curry, Pearson & Wooten, Law Clerk (2019)
Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, Summer Associate (2019)
Peters, Habib, McKenna, Juhl-Rhodes & Cardoza, Law Clerk (2017-2018)
Betteravia Farms, Pest Control Adviser/Certified Crop Adviser (2016-2017)

Professional Memberships and Activities

American Bar Association
Arizona Association of Defense Counsel
- Young Lawyer’s Division
  - President
Federal Bar Association
Maricopa County Bar Association
- Environmental Section
  - Chair-Elect (2024)
  - Board of Directors (2021-Present)

Representative Presentations and Publications

“EPA Steps Back, Arizona Moves Forward,” Co-Author, Snell & Wilmer Legal Alert (April 16, 2025)
“Lawsuit Challenges Water Rules Amid Housing Crisis,” Co-Author, Snell & Wilmer Legal Alert (January 29, 2025)
“Trump II: The Green New Repeal,” Co-Author, Snell & Wilmer Legal Alert (January 22, 2025)
“SEC Revises (and Weakens) Climate Disclosure Rules,” Co-Author, Snell & Wilmer Environmental, Natural Resources, Oil and Gas Law Blog (March 8, 2024)
“Arizona Groundwater Policy,” Co-Author, The Water Report: Water Rights, Water Quality & Water Solutions in the West (August 2023)
“Breaking News: Phoenix AMA Has an Abundance of Groundwater for the Next 100 Years and Beyond,” Co-Author, Snell & Wilmer Legal Alert (June 14, 2023)
“The Importance of Reusing Water in Arizona is Growing as Other Sources Become More Scarce,” Co-Author, Snell & Wilmer Legal Alert (June 6, 2023)
“Long-Term Storage Credits: Securing Arizona’s Water Future,” Co-Author, Snell & Wilmer Legal Alert (June 1, 2023)
“Two Idaho Homeowners Finally Clarify Scope of Clean Water Act,” Co-Author, Snell & Wilmer Legal Alert (May 30, 2023)
“The Law of the Colorado River: An Opportunity for Change,” Co-Author, Snell & Wilmer Legal Alert (May 23, 2023)
“Arizona’s In-State Surface Water Resources: Appropriable Water Fosters Economic Development,” Co-Author, Snell & Wilmer Legal Alert (May 16, 2023)
“Arizona Groundwater Supplies: More Than a Drop in the Bucket, Problems and Solutions for Policymakers,” Co-Author, Snell & Wilmer Legal Alert (May 9, 2023)
“As an Excellent Winter Transitions to an Uncertain Spring, How Secure Are Arizona’s Water Supplies?,” Co-Author, Snell & Wilmer Legal Alert (May 1, 2023)
“A Better Network: Storage as the Keystone of Renewable Energy’s Success“, Author, Circular Ecnonomy: American Bar Association’s Summer 2022 Publication of the Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources (Sept. 22, 2022)
“A Better Network: Storage as the Keystone of Renewable Energy’s Success,” Author, Natural Resources and Environment: A Publication of the American Bar Association Section of Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources (Vol 37, No 1, August 30, 2022).
“Pushing the United Nations for Recognition of Access to a Clean Environment as a Human Right,” Author, Snell & Wilmer Environmental, Natural Resources, Oil & Gas Law Blog (April 28, 2022)
“Colorado River Basin Drought Contingency Plan—We Are Where We Thought We’d Be: The Plan is About to Be Tested as the Colorado River Basin Enters a New Era of Shortage,” Author, The Water Report (Issue #211, Sept. 15, 2021)