AKART Petition
Akart Petition filed with the Washington Department of Ecology on November 14, 2018 seeking to force Puget Sound sewage treatment plants to significantly modernize their pollution removal technology.
AKART Petition News Release
News Release for the AKART Petition filed on November 14, 2018.
AKART Petition Supportive Documents
Contains a charts, graphs, and maps detailing the extent of the problem.
News Release – Remedy Order Oregon TMDL 12/12/18
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has a lot of work to do to protect salmon from hot water, according to a ruling issued by U.S. District Judge Marco A. Hernández Wednesday afternoon.
Oregon TMDLs Court Opinions Summary
Three documents must be read together to understand the court’s opinion in NWEA’s case challenging 14 Oregon temperature TMDLs and the Willamette River Mercury TMDL.
Federal court orders Oregon Act on Cleanup Plans
Oregon and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have eight years in which to replace defective water pollution clean-up plans that allow temperatures lethal to salmon in some of the state€™s key river basins, a federal court ordered late Tuesday. U.S. District Court Judge Marco A. Hernández ordered the agencies to place a higher priority on completing clean-up plans that affect the most pollution dischargers regulated by Clean Water Act permits. n some of the state€™s key river basins, a federal court ordered late Tuesday. U.S. District Court Judge Marco A. Hernández ordered the agencies to place a higher priority on completing clean-up plans that affect the most pollution dischargers regulated by Clean Water Act permits.