NWEA News
Federal Agencies Criticize Oregon Logging Reform Efforts
In their 2010 settlement with NWEA over Oregon logging practices on the coast, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) agreed to make ...
Idaho Water Quality Standards Subject to Pending Legal Action
Federal Agencies Fail to review Idaho Clean Water Standards
Eighteen years ago the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality submitted changes to its water quality standards to EPA for ...
NWEA Sues EPA for Approving Temperature Clean-Up Plans (TMDLs)
Following the February 2012 federal court ruling in our Temperature Standards lawsuit that Oregon could not automatically change its water quality standards without federal agency approval, NWEA ...
Oregon Fails to Control Coastal Nonpoint Source Pollution from Logging and Agriculture
The most persistent source of water pollution in this country comes from nonpoint sources – the logging, farming, and grazing that doesn’t require a Clean Water Act permit to pollute. While ...
NWEA Files Friend-of-the-Court Brief on Logging Roads Case
The U.S. Supreme Court recently heard arguments on whether industrial logging roads should have Clean Water Act permits like other pollution discharge sources. After all, we require a wide ...
Winter 2012 Newsletter
Our annual Newsletter for the Winter of 2012 is now posted.
It’s Time to Tell Oregon DEQ to Restrict Pesticides to Save Salmon!
In August, Northwest Environmental Advocates filed a petition with the Oregon Environmental
Quality Commission (a board that makes rules for the Department of Environmental Quality
(DEQ)). DEQ ...
Petition Seeks Federal Pesticide Restrictions in Oregon
Citing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s refusal to protect threatened and endangered species from pesticides, Northwest Environmental Advocates (NWEA) petitioned Oregon’s Environmental ...
DEQ Issues Permit to Poison Fairview Lake, Oregon
In March, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) denied a permit to the Fairview Lake Property Owners Association (FLPOA) to discharge herbicides to Fairview Lake based on concerns ...
Federal Court Ruling Favors NWEA Position on CWA and ESA
A federal court ruled largely in NWEA's favor on February 28, 2012 in a case challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approval of Oregon's 2004 temperature standards under the ...
NWEA Continues Legal Fight to Bring Cold Water to Salmon, Steelhead, and Bull Trout in Oregon
In December, a federal court heard oral argument in NWEA’s six-year old case challenging Oregon’s water quality standards for temperature.
Salmon, steelhead, and bull trout are the Pacific ...
NRC Rejects NWEA’s Raising of Fukushima Issues in Relicensing of the Columbia Generating Station/WPPSS No. 2 Nuclear Plant
After the meltdown at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in Japan, NWEA sought to participate in the process to extend the operating license of the CGS reactor. The Fukushima reactors are all ...