It’s Time to Tell Oregon DEQ to Restrict Pesticides to Save Salmon!

In August, Northwest Environmental Advocates filed a petition with the Oregon Environmental Quality Commission (a board that makes rules for the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ)). DEQ is taking public comment on whether to grant the petition – until September...

NRC Rejects NWEA’s Raising of Fukushima Issues in Relicensing of the Columbia Generating Station/WPPSS No. 2 Nuclear Plant

After the meltdown at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in Japan, NWEA sought to participate in the process to extend the operating license of the CGS reactor.  The Fukushima reactors are all General Electric boiling water reactors with what is termed a Mark I...