NWEA News
Winter 2021 Newsletter
Join with UsStay informed on the latest Northwest Environmental Advocates news as we work to protect and resort the regions water quality and habitat.Make Your Voice HeardYes, I want Northwest ...
Puget Sound Endangered by Agency Inaction
uget Sound Endangered by Agency "foot-dragging" - NWEA tells Federal Court
Citing agency foot-dragging in cleaning up Puget Sound, NWEAÂ sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in ...
Columbia River Cold-Water Refuges Sought for Salmon
NewsStay InformedDocumentsLawsuit filed to provide Salmon and Steelhead with Columbia River Cold-Water Refuges
NWEA sued the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) on November 2, 2021, on the ...
Ashland Sewage Permit Comments
NewsStay InformedDocumentsNWEA's Ashland Sewage Permit Comments submitted to Oregon DEQThirteen years after the City of Ashland’s permit to discharge treated sewage expired, the Oregon ...
EPA Must Protect Idaho Salmon from Mercury Pollution
EPA’s “parade-of-horribles”Seventeen years after EPA first told Idaho to not remove mercury water quality standards that protect fish, a federal judge in Idaho ruled that EPA is on the hook to ...
Rogue River Court Victory
The City of Medford’s nutrient pollution of the Rogue River violates its discharge permit, a federal court has ruled in NWEA’s 2018 lawsuit challenging the discharge of treated sewage to the ...
Dam Removal Risks Environmental Laws
The recent proposal by Rep. Mike Simpson (ID) to breach the four Lower Snake River dams has a major flaw: it will suspend the nation’s bedrock environmental laws for 35-50 years across large ...
Protecting Salmon in Idaho Waters
In a settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), NWEA has forced one more step towards protecting salmon in Idaho waters. As the result of the NWEA lawsuit, EPA has agreed ...
Cleaning Up the Rogue River: Update
In our effort to clean up the Rogue River because government agencies won’t do their jobs, NWEA filed its opening brief to enforce the City of Medford’s discharge permit. Despite our having ...
Comments on Deschutes River TMDL
Following NWEA’s successful lawsuit to force the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to act one way or the other on Washington’s proposed clean-up plans for Puget Sound’s Deschutes ...
Protecting Salmon and Orcas from Toxics
NWEA filed a lawsuit in federal court this week accusing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of failing to bring Washington State’s water quality standards out of the last century all the ...
Rogue River Oregon Update
In May, NWEA’s expert panel issued a scathing rebuttal report to Medford’s most recent study. NWEA’s report shows that aggressive reductions in nutrient pollution—both nitrogen and ...