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...
A federal magistrate judge is recommending that NWEA win its lawsuit challenging clean-up plans developed by Oregon to address the state’s widespread river temperature pollution. Oregon District Court Magistrate Judge John V. Acosta issued his decision in a case...
NWEA has just released an extensive letter from Executive Director, Nina Bell, to Region 10 of the U.S. EPA, dated July 17, 2014, that examines Oregon’s water quality trading program. In the letter, Ms. Bell details the many deficiencies plaguing the Oregon program...
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 filed a challenge to the results of Oregon’s use of that provision. All...
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 Congress left nonpoint source pollution controls to the states, it passed the...
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 raised by NWEA. In May, DEQ turned around and granted the permit to...
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