NWEA News
EPA Issues Damning Critique of Oregon’s Water Quality Anti-Degradation Policies
Concluding the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) does not have its existing house in order to protect water quality, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a ...
NWEA to EPA: Are Hyporheic Zones for Cooling Fish or Discharges?
In a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on July 26th, NWEA asked the federal agency to consider why Oregon dischargers are being allowed to use hyporheic zones, which are ...
Lawsuit Filed over Idaho Toxics
NWEA filed a lawsuit over Idaho toxics standards because a 17 year delay by federal fish and wildlife agencies in reviewing the state's water quality standards is unlawful. The lawsuit against ...
NWEA resigns from Washington process to adopt new criteria for toxics
NWEA resigned from the Washington Department of Ecology’s process to adopt new human health criteria for toxics today. NWEA was the last remaining participant not affiliated with pollution ...
NWEA Highlights Oregon’s Failure to Control Agricultural Pollution
With Oregon staring down a November 15, 2013 date on which two federal agencies must issue a proposed decision on the State’s coastal nonpoint pollution program, NWEA’s more recent letter ...
Wireless networks the new energy hogs
With rapid growth wireless networks will soon pass data centers as energy hogs, that's the finding of a new report from researchers in Australia. According to Melbourne's Centre for Energy ...
Federal Court Vacates Oregon’s Water Quality Temperature Standards
Over a year after a federal court ruled in NWEA’s favor on key provisions of Oregon's water quality temperature standards, an agreement between NWEA and EPA has resulted in two court orders – ...
EPA Again Fails to Control Invasive Species from Ship Discharges
EPA has issued its second national permit to control invasive species from ship discharges and the result is not much better than the first permit. The national permit, known as the Vessel ...
Oregon cheating on water quality trading program
Pollution credit trading is a new idea that is already badly tarnished. Many examples of abuses exist, including an increase in production of dangerous gases in response to a United Nations ...
EPA Fails on Washington’s Water Quality Standards
Over twenty years ago the Washington Department of Ecology water quality standards changes to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for approval. These standards, and updates ...
Fed Agency Calls for Stream Buffer on Agriculture Lands
In January 2013 the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) sent two other federal agencies a letter regarding the need for riparian stream buffers along streams in western Washington ...
Impending Columbia River Dike Breach Threatens Endangered Deer
Since March 2011 it’s been clear the Steamboat Slough Road Dike – the only thing holding the Columbia River back from decimating a significant population of endangered Columbian white-tailed ...