July 21, 2014 | Clean Water Act, EPA, NPDES Permits, OR NPDES, OR Temperature, OR Trading, OR_TMDLs, Oregon, Water Pollution Trading, Water Quality
NWEA has just released an extensive letter from Executive Director, Nina Bell, to Region 10 of the U.S. EPA, dated July 17, 2014, that examines Oregon’s water quality trading program. In the letter, Ms. Bell details the many deficiencies plaguing the Oregon program...
July 5, 2014 | Advocacy, Arsenic, Clean Water Act, Copper, Cyanide, EPA, ID Copper, ID WQS, Idaho, Lawsuits, Mercury, Salmon, Toxics, Water Quality, Water Quality Standards
In response to a lawsuit filed by NWEA in June 2013, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) on May 7, 2014 issued a biological opinion (“BiOp”) finding Idaho toxic standards pose jeopardy to salmon and other threatened and endangered species. The...
March 31, 2014 | Clean Water Act, EPA, NPDES Permits, OR NPDES, OR Temperature, Oregon, Temperature, Water Quality
In July 2013, NWEA sent a letter to EPA Region 10 in Seattle asking the agency to weigh in on the Oregon practice of letting – even encouraging – municipal dischargers to dump their wastes into hyporheic zones of rivers. These hyporheic zones are where cold...
March 30, 2014 | Agriculture, Comments, CZARA, Lawsuits, Logging, Nitrogen, NOAA, Nonpoint Sources, OR CZARA, OR Dairies, OR Temperature, Oregon, Oregon Coast, Salmon, Water Quality
NWEA recently commissioned two expert declarations on how Oregon coastal logging and farming are affecting water quality. Dr. Chris Frissell’s declaration addresses the effects of logging on water quality, concluding that the best available science demonstrates “the...
March 28, 2014 | Advocacy, Agriculture, Comments, CZARA, EPA, Frogs, Lawsuits, Logging, NOAA, Nonpoint Sources, OR CZARA, OR Dairies, OR Temperature, Oregon, Oregon Coast, Salamanders, Salmon, Water Quality
Working with the Washington Forest Law Center, NWEA submitted extensive comments on the federal government’s proposed disapproval of Oregon’s Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control Program. The comments support the proposed disapproval, focusing primarily on Oregon’s...
March 9, 2014 | Advocacy, Ballast Water, Clean Water Act, EPA, Invasive Species, Lawsuits, National, NPDES Permits
The never ending fight to stop invasive species from ballast water permit. Hard to believe NWEA started working on the Ballast Water issue, to prevent the discharge of invasive species from ships, some 15 years ago and while we’ve had some success it hasn’t been...
