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Stopping Tacoma from Harming Puget Sound Chinook Salmon

Stopping Tacoma Wastewater Discharges from Harming Puget Sound Chinook Salmon NWEA has served the City of Tacoma with an intent to sue for discharging treated sewage containing so-called “contaminants of emerging concern,” a category of largely unregulated pollutants...

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....

Victory for Puget Sound

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

Director's Blog

Speaking Truth to Power

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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