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WA water quality standards for toxics not adequate to protect human health

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...

Lawsuit on Idaho Water Quality Standards Expanded to Include EPA

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...

Letter Takes WA Governor to Task Over Advisory Group

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...

EPA Issues Damning Critique of Oregon’s Water Quality Anti-Degradation Policies

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...

Lawsuit Filed over Idaho Toxics

June 26, 2013 | Advocacy, Arsenic, Clean Water Act, Cyanide, Endangered Species, ID Copper, ID WQS, Idaho, Lawsuits, Salmon, Toxics, Water Quality, Water Quality Standards

NWEA filed a lawsuit over Idaho toxics standards because a 17 year delay by federal fish and wildlife agencies in reviewing the state’s water quality standards is unlawful. The lawsuit against the National Marine Fisheries Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife...

NWEA resigns from Washington process to adopt new criteria for toxics

June 12, 2013 | Advocacy, Arsenic, Clean Water Act, Dioxin, Human Health, Mercury, Toxics, WA WQS, Washington, Water Quality, Water Quality Standards

NWEA resigned from the Washington Department of Ecology’s process to adopt new human health criteria for toxics today. NWEA was the last remaining participant not affiliated with pollution sources. In a letter to Ecology Director Maia Bellon, NWEA wrote that “Ecology...
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