March 9, 2014 | Advocacy, Ballast Water, Clean Water Act, EPA, Invasive Species, Lawsuits, National, NPDES Permits
The never ending fight to stop invasive species from ballast water permit. Hard to believe NWEA started working on the Ballast Water issue, to prevent the discharge of invasive species from ships, some 15 years ago and while we’ve had some success it hasn’t been...
February 23, 2014 | Advocacy, Clean Water Act, Endangered Species, EPA, Lawsuits, Puget Sound, Salmon, Toxics, WA Temperature, WA WQS, Washington, Water Quality, Water Quality Standards
EPA Failure brings into question Washington’s water quality standards. In a sweeping case that addresses a wide variety of pollutants – from temperature to toxics – NWEA has challenged EPA’s failure to consult under the Endangered Species Act on its approval of...
February 23, 2014 | Accidents, Energy, Nuclear Power
NWEA Joins in Petition to NRC Seeking New Rules to prevent Fires in Spent Fuel Pools. Thirty-four organizations have petitioned the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission seeking new rules to ensure that all NRC licensing decisions address startling new information about...
January 13, 2014 | Agriculture, CZARA, EPA, Lawsuits, Logging, NOAA, Nonpoint Sources, OR CZARA, OR Temperature, Oregon, Oregon Coast, Water Quality
Have you wondered about the truth of the State of Oregon’s assertions regarding the federal government’s proposal to disapprove the state’s coastal nonpoint pollution program? If so, you have good reason because Oregon tried a...
December 20, 2013 | Advocacy, CZARA, EPA, Lawsuits, Logging, NOAA, Nonpoint Sources, OR CZARA, Oregon, Oregon Coast, Uncategorized, Water Quality
Two federal agencies issued a proposed disapproval action of Oregon Coastal Pollution Control Program for Nonpoint sources on December 20, 2013, pursuant to a settlement of a lawsuit brought by Northwest Environmental Advocates in 2009. The case was brought under the...
November 22, 2013 | Clean Water Act, EPA, OR NPDES, OR Trading, Oregon, Water Pollution Trading, Water Quality
EPA has provided a response to NWEA’s March 2013 FOIA request on water quality trading. The FOIA documents are posted here. At this time we have not identified documents of particular interest or prepared any kind of summary. NWEA has other FOIA requests pending...
October 29, 2013 | Advocacy, Clean Water Act, EPA, Human Health, Petitions, Toxics, WA WQS, Washington, Water Quality, Water Quality Standards
WA water quality standards for toxics not adequate to protect human health NWEA filed a petition with EPA today asking that the EPA Administrator make a formal “determination” pursuant to the Clean Water Act that Washington’s water quality standards for toxics are not...
September 27, 2013 | Advocacy, Clean Water Act, Endangered Species, EPA, ID Copper, ID WQS, Idaho, Lawsuits, Toxics, Water Quality, Water Quality Standards
On September 24, NWEA amended its lawsuit concerning Idaho’s water quality standards against federal fish and wildlife agencies to include the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Consistent with two notice letters sent to EPA, the lawsuit alleges that EPA failed to...
September 26, 2013 | Advocacy, Clean Water Act, Human Health, Toxics, WA WQS, Washington, Water Quality, Water Quality Standards
In a letter sent to Washington Governor Jay Inslee on September 13, NWEA took the Governor to task for setting up a process to bring yet more political influence to the already fraught “political football” of Washington’s fish consumption-based toxic criteria for the...
August 9, 2013 | Antidegradation, Clean Water Act, EPA, Lawsuits, OR WQS, Oregon, Water Quality, Water Quality Standards
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 damning critique of Oregon’s policies that are supposed to protect the...
