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 agency’s foot-dragging in a lawsuit filed today. The new suit asserts that EPA...
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 agencies an environmental organization asserted in a lawsuit filed today. Northwest...
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 for two and a half years, EPA partially approved and partially disapproved...
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 letter sent to NWEA and the Center for Biological Diversity in December...
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 lawsuit because EPA has failed for nearly two years to approve or disapprove...
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 the federal Wildlife Services, a department of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, kills over 400 beavers each year in Oregon. Given this one federal agency’s perverse insistence in undermining the goals of federal laws and the work of other agencies, NWEA has joined with the Center for Biological Diversity and Western Environmental Law Center (WELC) in a lawsuit to be filed against Wildlife Services.
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 examining the fauna and flora in a stream has been embodied in Clean Water Act...
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 clean-up plan is contained in a formal 77-page petition that requests Ecology...