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Water Quality Trading Update

November 22, 2013 | Clean Water Act, EPA, OR NPDES, OR Trading, Oregon, Water Pollution Trading, Water Quality

NWEA to EPA: Are Hyporheic Zones for Cooling Fish or Discharges?

July 30, 2013 | Advocacy, Clean Water Act, EPA, NPDES Permits, OR NPDES, OR Temperature, Oregon, Temperature, Water Quality

In a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on July 26th, NWEA asked the federal agency to consider why Oregon dischargers are being allowed to use hyporheic zones, which are supposed to be protected as thermal refuges for the protection of salmon, as...

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...

DEQ Issues Permit to Poison Fairview Lake, Oregon

July 3, 2012 | Clean Water Act, Columbia Slough, Comments, Dissolved Oxygen, Nutrients, OR NPDES, OR_TMDLs, Oregon, Pesticides, Species, Toxics, Turtles, Water Quality

In March, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) denied a permit to the Fairview Lake Property Owners Association (FLPOA) to discharge herbicides to Fairview Lake based on concerns raised by NWEA.  In May, DEQ turned around and granted the permit to...

NWEA Works to Stop Sewage Sludge Dumping

November 25, 2011 | Advocacy, Clean Water Act, Comments, Human Health, OR NPDES, Oregon, Toxics, Water Quality

Dumping sewage sludge (called “biosolids” in the trade) on land is the solution promoted by the federal government since dumping the waste in the ocean was banned in 1992.  Neighbors abutting one ranch where the Roseburg...
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