Northwest Environmental Advocates
Making a Difference
Winter 2023 Newsletter
The Winter 2023 Newsletter: A year of both high points and the inevitable frustrations. It got me to wondering why NWEA has to bring so many...
Petition Seeks to Update 47-Year-Old Toxic Pollutants List
EPA Toxic Pollutant List "See No Evil" The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) has failed to update two lists of toxic pollutants...
Protecting Endangered Species in Idaho Waters from Toxic Metals
Following federal findings, a formal petition seeks long over-due action by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency NWEA petitioned the U.S....
Director's Blog
Speaking Truth to Power
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
