October 22, 2025
NWEA Lawsuit Forces EPA Action on Deschutes River Clean-Up Plan After failing to either approve or disapprove the Washington Department of Ecology’s Deschutes River TMDL clean-up plan for two and a half years, EPA partially approved and partially disapproved the plan in response to the court order in the NWEA case. EPA approved most of the clean-up plans for temperature pollution but it disapproved those for dissolved oxygen, pH, fine sediment, and bacteria. EPA is now on the hook to develop replacements for those plans it disapproved. The Clean Water Act gives the agency 30 days.
October 22, 2025
Court Order on Deschutes River TMDL
October 22, 2025
Plaintiff Northwest Environmental Advocates and Defendant U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (€œEPA€) hereby move the Court to enter the attached [Proposed] Order Granting Stay Pending Voluntary Reconsideration
October 22, 2025
The Order entering this Stipulated Dismissal may be modified by the Court upon good cause shown, consistent with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, by written stipulation between the parties filed with and approved by the Court, or upon written motion filed by one of the parties and granted by the Court.
October 22, 2025
Contains documents related to the court filing of November 2017
October 22, 2025
Taking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to court for a second time over
