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Oregon Told Expedite River Cleanup Plans

Oregon Told Expedite River Cleanup Plans

June 12, 2019 | Clean Water Act, Lawsuits, OR Temperature, OR Trading, OR_TMDLs, TMDLs

Court Orders priority for most pollution dischargersDocument Links Oregon and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have eight years in which to replace defective water pollution clean-up plans that allow temperatures lethal to salmon in some of the state’s...

EPA’s Early Involvement Needed in Oregon Water Quality Trading

February 22, 2015 | Advocacy, Agriculture, EPA, NPDES Permits, OR NPDES, OR Temperature, OR Trading, Oregon, Water Pollution Trading, Water Quality

NWEA and NEDC  Urge EPA’s Early Involvement in Oregon Water Quality Trading Rules Citing grave concerns about Oregon’s Clean Water Act permitting program, NWEA and the Northwest Environmental Defense Center (NEDC) sent a letter to the U.S. EPA asking for its early...

Water Quality Trading an Oregon Failure

July 21, 2014 | Clean Water Act, EPA, NPDES Permits, OR NPDES, OR Temperature, OR Trading, OR_TMDLs, Oregon, Water Pollution Trading, Water Quality

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...

Water Quality Trading Update

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...

Oregon cheating on water quality trading program

March 16, 2013 | Advocacy, EPA, NPDES Permits, OR NPDES, OR Temperature, OR Trading, Oregon, Temperature, Water Pollution Trading, Water Quality

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 climate change credit initiative. In the Pacific Northwest pollution credit...

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