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Northwest Environmental Advocates

Making a Difference

Winter 2024 Newsletter

The Winter 2024 Newsletter A year of hurry up and wait Pacific Northwest waters in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho continue to be plagued by high temperatures, too many toxics, and too little dissolved oxygen. The good news is that Northwest Environmental Advocates...

Victory for Puget Sound

NWEA wins another victory for Puget Sound Northwest Environmental Advocates' (NWEA) persistence means another victory for Puget Sound salmon and...

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EPA Inaction 2022 Update

by Nina Bell • June 27, 2022 •  Last year I wrote about how Congressional intent gets defeated by EPA inaction using the example of the water quality standards in Washington that are needed to protect salmon and orcas.  The saga since then has become—I don’t ...

Idaho Court Victory Musings

by Nina Bell • October 6, 2021 •    In Part One, I explained the genesis of EPA’s obligations to keep water quality standards for toxics updated, to reflect the latest science on what we know can hurt us and other living things. In July, a federal court ...

How Congress’ Clean Water Goals Get Defeated

by Nina Bell • August 27, 2021 •    I suppose that every problem that I identify as a failure to carry out federal environmental laws is a story of how Congress gets defeated, but some of them stand out more than others as the bureaucracy manages to turn ...
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