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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...

NWEA to EPA: Are Hyporheic Zones for Cooling Fish or Discharges?

July 30, 2013 | Advocacy, Clean Water Act, EPA, NPDES Permits, OR NPDES, OR Temperature, Oregon, Temperature, Water Quality

In a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on July 26th, NWEA asked the federal agency to consider why Oregon dischargers are being allowed to use hyporheic zones, which are supposed to be protected as thermal refuges for the protection of salmon, as...

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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