NWEA News
Federal Court Ruling Favors NWEA Position on CWA and ESA
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 ...
NWEA Continues Legal Fight to Bring Cold Water to Salmon, Steelhead, and Bull Trout in Oregon
In December, a federal court heard oral argument in NWEA’s six-year old case challenging Oregon’s water quality standards for temperature.
Salmon, steelhead, and bull trout are the Pacific ...
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 ...
NWEA Works to Stop Sewage Sludge Dumping
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 ...
In Memory of Dr. Rudi Nussbaum
With great sadness we note the passing of Dr. Rudi Nussbaum, professor emeritus of Physics at Portland State University. Dr. Nussbaum, who survived the Holocaust and was an avowed pacifist, was ...
Shipping Industry Loses Legal Challenge to Ballast Water Discharge Permit
A federal appellate court in Washington, D.C. has rejected a legal challenge by the shipping industry to the permit issued by the Environmental Protection Agency for ships to discharge ballast ...
Petition to Suspend Licensing at Nuclear Power Facilities Pending Fukushima Investigation
On April 14 and 18, NWEA joined with citizens groups across the country to file an Emergency Petition with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). The Petition is supported by a highly ...
Oregon’s Sneak Effort to De-Regulate Unsafe Levels of Iron and Manganese
In Oregon’s recent rulemaking to make the state’s toxic criteria the most stringent in the country, the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) also sought to remove its water quality ...
NWEA Comments on Oregon’s Proposed Toxic Criteria and New Loopholes
NWEA spent the last two and a half years working through Oregon’s advisory committees to upgrade its water quality criteria for the protection of human health from toxic pollutants. Recently we ...
Getting the Real Facts about Radiation
A lot of misleading information has been put out on radiation and its health effects since the start of the nuclear power accident in Japan. Listening to governments, nuclear industry ...
NWEA Files Brief Supporting EPA Ballast Water Permit
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 ...
Nuclear Disaster Was Inevitable
The nuclear disaster unfolding at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility in Japan (six reactors with spent fuel pools and an additional common pool) are very troubling, raising concerns ...