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 Northwest’s “canary in the coal mine,” making the temperatures of our rivers...

NWEA Comments on Oregon’s Proposed Toxic Criteria and New Loopholes

NWEA spent the last two and a half years working through Oregon’s advisory committees to upgrade its water quality criteria for the protection of human health from toxic pollutants. Recently we submitted comments to the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality...