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Columbia Generating Station Waste Discharges to Columbia River Challenged

July 5, 2014 | Advocacy, Clean Water Act, Columbia Generating Station, Columbia River, Comments, Energy, Hanford, NPDES Permits, Nuclear Power, WA NPDES, Washington, Water Quality

The nuclear power plant formerly known as WPPSS No. 2, now called the Columbia Generating Station (CGS), has a permit to discharge wastes to the Hanford Reach of the Columbia River.  A nuclear power plant uses a lot of water and chemicals in its cooling system. The...

NWEA Continues Legal Fight to Bring Cold Water to Salmon, Steelhead, and Bull Trout in Oregon

January 2, 2012 | Advocacy, Antidegradation, Clean Water Act, Columbia River, Lawsuits, OR Temperature, OR WQS, Oregon, Salmon, Temperature, Water Quality Standards

In December, a federal court heard oral argument in NWEA’s six-year old case challenging Oregon’s water quality standards for temperature. Salmon, steelhead, and bull trout are the Pacific Northwest’s “canary in the coal mine,” making the temperatures of our rivers...

NRC Rejects NWEA’s Raising of Fukushima Issues in Relicensing of the Columbia Generating Station/WPPSS No. 2 Nuclear Plant

December 2, 2011 | Accidents, Advocacy, Columbia Generating Station, Columbia River, Energy, Human Health, Lawsuits, Nuclear Power, Petitions

After the meltdown at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in Japan, NWEA sought to participate in the process to extend the operating license of the CGS reactor.  The Fukushima reactors are all General Electric boiling water reactors with what is termed a Mark I...