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Oregon’s Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Program – Fact and Fiction

January 13, 2014 | Agriculture, CZARA, EPA, Lawsuits, Logging, NOAA, Nonpoint Sources, OR CZARA, OR Temperature, Oregon, Oregon Coast, Water Quality

Have you wondered about the truth of the State of Oregon’s assertions regarding the federal government’s proposal to disapprove the state’s coastal nonpoint pollution program?  If so, you have good reason because Oregon tried a...

Fed Agencies Heed NWEA, Propose Disapproval of Oregon Coastal Pollution Program

December 20, 2013 | Advocacy, CZARA, EPA, Lawsuits, Logging, NOAA, Nonpoint Sources, OR CZARA, Oregon, Oregon Coast, Uncategorized, Water Quality

Two federal agencies issued a proposed disapproval action of Oregon Coastal Pollution Control Program for Nonpoint sources on December 20, 2013, pursuant to a settlement of a lawsuit brought by Northwest Environmental Advocates in 2009.  The case was brought under the...

WA water quality standards for toxics not adequate to protect human health

October 29, 2013 | Advocacy, Clean Water Act, EPA, Human Health, Petitions, Toxics, WA WQS, Washington, Water Quality, Water Quality Standards

WA water quality standards for toxics not adequate to protect human health NWEA filed a petition with EPA today asking that the EPA Administrator make a formal “determination” pursuant to the Clean Water Act that Washington’s water quality standards for toxics are not...

Lawsuit on Idaho Water Quality Standards Expanded to Include EPA

September 27, 2013 | Advocacy, Clean Water Act, Endangered Species, EPA, ID Copper, ID WQS, Idaho, Lawsuits, Toxics, Water Quality, Water Quality Standards

On September 24, NWEA amended its lawsuit concerning Idaho’s water quality standards against federal fish and wildlife agencies to include the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.  Consistent with two notice letters sent to EPA, the lawsuit alleges that EPA failed to...

Letter Takes WA Governor to Task Over Advisory Group

September 26, 2013 | Advocacy, Clean Water Act, Human Health, Toxics, WA WQS, Washington, Water Quality, Water Quality Standards

In a letter sent to Washington Governor Jay Inslee on September 13, NWEA took the Governor to task for setting up a process to bring yet more political influence to the already fraught “political football” of Washington’s fish consumption-based toxic criteria for the...

EPA Issues Damning Critique of Oregon’s Water Quality Anti-Degradation Policies

August 9, 2013 | Antidegradation, Clean Water Act, EPA, Lawsuits, OR WQS, Oregon, Water Quality, Water Quality Standards

Concluding the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) does not have its existing house in order to protect water quality, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a damning critique of Oregon’s policies that are supposed to protect the...
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