NWEA News
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 ...
Revealing Waste through FOIA
Revealing Waste of Federal Tax Dollars Using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is well known for distributing large amounts of tax dollars to ...
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 ...
Northwest Nuclear Plant Costing Ratepayers Billions
The Northwest’s only nuclear plant—the Columbia Generating Station (CGS) in Richland, WA—could cost public power electrical ratepayers about $1.64 billion more than buying the same power on the ...
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 ...
Court OKs Lawsuit to Protect Puget Sound from Polluted Runoff
In a big win for NWEA, U.S. District Court Judge John C. Coughenour gave a green light to NWEA’s lawsuit to protect Puget Sound from polluted runoff. The case is against two federal agencies ...