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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 in...
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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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Agency Malaise is Killing Salmon

by Nina Bell • February 4, 2021 •    Well, dear reader, at one level the answer is the glib: “we will never know because we will never try to meet them.” That is, the way to meet water quality standards is to protect streamside trees from being removed,...
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Politics Are Killing Our Salmon

by Nina Bell • January 24, 2021 •  ​A Fishing Enthusiast asks: Why do state and federal agencies keep delaying enforcement of clean water laws that are supposed to protect salmon? The answer to the question is, in a word: politics.  Meeting water quality...
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Agency Malaise is Killing Salmon

Agency Malaise is Killing Salmon

Feb 2, 2021

by Nina Bell • February 4, 2021 •    Well, dear reader, at one level the answer is the glib: “we will never...

Politics Are Killing Our Salmon

Politics Are Killing Our Salmon

Jan 24, 2021

by Nina Bell • January 24, 2021 •  ​A Fishing Enthusiast asks: Why do state and federal agencies keep delaying...

Actual Leadership

Actual Leadership

Mar 6, 2020 |

by Nina Bell • March 7, 2020 •   A kindly Washington reader writes: “What would it take to get some actual...

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