NWEA News
Sewage Treatment Appeal Lands in Governor’s Lap
Ecology Denied a Petition that Sought Rules to Protect Puget Sound
Northwest Environmental Advocates called for Washington Governor Jay Inslee’s leadership to protect Puget Sound as we filed a ...
Court Rejects EPA Stand On Oregon Rivers’ Temperature
Oregon Rivers increasing temperatures need attention
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has a lot of work to do to protect salmon from hot water, according to a ...
Issue Timely Water Pollution Permits Court tells Oregon
Oregon to issue timely water pollution discharge permits
Water pollution permits in Oregon will now be issued in a timely fashion due to an order signed today by an Oregon court. The ...
Stalled Plans for Deschutes River Clean-up Brings New Court Action
Taking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to court for a second time over stalled plans for cleaning up Washington’s Deschutes River, an environmental group criticized the ...
Bull Trout Exposure to Toxic Pollution Brings Court Action
Threatened bull trout in Oregon are not being adequately protected by federal agencies
Bull trout in Oregon are not being adequately protected from toxic pollutants by federal ...
EPA Forced to Act on Deschutes River Clean-Up Plan
NWEA Lawsuit Forces EPA Action on Deschutes River Clean-Up
After failing to either approve or disapprove the Deschutes River TMDL clean-up plan developed by Washington Department of Ecology’s ...
Oregon Beavers Win Reprieve
In response to a lawsuit threatened by NWEA, Oregon beavers win reprieve from execution by the federal agency known as Wildlife Services. The agency announced a temporary end to the killing in a ...
Lawsuit Challenges EPA’S Stall of Deschutes River Clean-Up Plan
Why a Deschutes River Clean-Up Plan?
NWEA has challenged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) unlawful stalling of Washington's Deschutes River clean-up plan. NWEA filed the ...
Groups Act to Protect Beavers to Save Salmon and Frogs
Federal fish and wildlife experts agree on the importance of protecting beavers in order to save threatened and endangered species including salmon, steelhead, and the Oregon spotted frog. Yet ...
Cleaning Oregon Rogue River
City of Medford put on notice about sewage discharges to Rogue River
Little water creatures can tell us a lot about whether streams and rivers are polluted. For many years, this science of ...
NWEA Petition Seeks Control of Puget Sound Sewage Discharges
NWEA has submitted a petition for rulemaking to the Washington Department of Ecology that seeks to control nitrogen pollution from sewage discharges into Puget Sound. The demand for a TMDL ...
Oregon Plan Undermines the Goals of the Clean Water Act
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is currently cooking up a plan to largely undermine the goals of the Clean Water Act over the next decade. Given a long menu of work that ...
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