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EPA Again Fails to Control Invasive Species from Ship Discharges

April 7, 2013 | Ballast Water, Clean Water Act, EPA, Invasive Species, National, NPDES Permits, Uncategorized, Water Quality

EPA has issued its second national permit to control invasive species from ship discharges and the result is not much better than the first permit. The national permit, known as the Vessel General Permit (VGP), is intended to control the discharge of invasive species,...

Oregon cheating on water quality trading program

March 16, 2013 | Advocacy, EPA, NPDES Permits, OR NPDES, OR Temperature, OR Trading, Oregon, Temperature, Water Pollution Trading, Water Quality

Pollution credit trading is a new idea that is already badly tarnished. Many examples of abuses exist, including an increase in production of dangerous gases in response to a United Nations climate change credit initiative. In the Pacific Northwest pollution credit...

EPA Fails on Washington’s Water Quality Standards

March 10, 2013 | Advocacy, Ammonia, Clean Water Act, Copper, EPA, Lawsuits, Toxics, WA Copper, WA WQS, Washington, Water Quality Standards

Over twenty years ago the Washington Department of Ecology water quality standards changes to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for approval. These standards, and updates made in the two decades since then, set the allowable levels of toxic chemicals for...

Federal Court Ruling Favors NWEA Position on CWA and ESA

February 29, 2012 | Advocacy, Antidegradation, Clean Water Act, Columbia River, EPA, Lawsuits, OR Temperature, OR WQS, Oregon, Salmon, Temperature, Water Quality Standards

A federal court ruled largely in NWEA’s favor on February 28, 2012 in a case challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approval of Oregon’s 2004 temperature standards under the Clean Water Act (CWA).  NWEA also challenged the reviews...

NWEA Files Brief Supporting EPA Ballast Water Permit

March 28, 2011 | Advocacy, Ballast Water, Clean Water Act, EPA, Invasive Species, Lawsuits, National, NPDES Permits, Water Quality

Although NWEA recently signed a settlement with EPA over its own challenge to EPA’s Vessel General Permit (VGP),  the shipping industry had continued to press its own court case against the VGP in the D.C. Circuit. NWEA is an intervenor in the shipping industry’s...
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