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February 19th, 2020 | Category: California, Featured Posts, Groundwater, Legal, Maine, Nestlé, News, Oregon, Other States, Privatization, Protection, United States, Washington, Water Conservation | By Alex Brown / The Washington Post
Posted Feb 18, 2020 at 5:00 AM
OLYMPIA — Washington state, land of sprawling rainforests and glacier-fed rivers, might soon become the first in the nation to ban water bottling companies from tapping spring-fed sources.
The proposal is one of several efforts at the state and local level to fend off the fast-growing bottled water industry and protect local groundwater. Local activists throughout the country say bottling companies are taking their water virtually […]
Continue reading Bottled water war: Washington, other states seek to curtail firms in tapping local groundwater
By Associated Press
Posted Jan 29, 2020 Eugene Register-Guard
SEATTLE — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a $2.2 million grant for Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington to help identify sources of lead in drinking water in schools and child-care facilities.
The funds are provided through EPA’s new drinking water grant program established by the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act Voluntary Lead Testing in Schools and Child Care grant program.
“Ensuring access to clean drinking water and protecting […]
Continue reading Oregon to get $1.1M as part of EPA $2.2M drinking water program grant
January 24th, 2020 | Category: California, Featured Posts, Groundwater, Legal, Maine, Massachussetts, New Hampshire, New York, News, Oregon, Other States, Protection, Surface Water, United States, Vermont, Washington | Posted: Jan 23, 2020 KDRV.com Posted By: Jamie Parfitt
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Two U.S. Congressmen representing parts of southern Oregon were quick to sound off Thursday following an announcement from the Trump administration that it would move ahead with rollbacks on Obama-era clean water protections.
Officials with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the change on Thursday. During the Obama administration, the agency expanded protections of the “waters of the United States” (commonly referred to as WOTUS) to include smaller […]
Continue reading OREGON LAWMAKERS DIVIDED OVER EPA ROLLBACK OF WATER PROTECTIONS
December 28th, 2019 | Category: Columbia River, Featured Posts, Legal, News, Oregon, Other States, Protection, Rights of Nature, Surface Water, United States, Washington | By GEORGE PLAVEN Capital Press Dec 27, 2019
A federal appeals court has ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to finalize a long-overdue plan to lower water temperatures for endangered fish in the Columbia and Snake rivers.
The ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is likely to intensify the ongoing debate over breaching four Lower Snake River dams in Eastern Washington to increase salmon and steelhead runs.
Environmental and commercial fishing groups sued the EPA […]
Continue reading Court orders EPA to write temperature control plans for Columbia, Snake
The Sacramento Bee
December 16, 2019
Roughly 100 years worth of tiny shells resting on the Southern California seafloor have revealed an alarming trend that could spell trouble for the West Coast seafood industry, a new study says.
The research, published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience, suggests that the Pacific Ocean along California is acidifying twice as fast as the global average, scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric […]
Continue reading 100 years of tiny seashells reveal alarming trend threatening West Coast seafood
BY PHIL FULLERTON, Retired Attorney
The Fresno Bee
NOVEMBER 22, 2019 10:30 AM
Central Valley agriculture faces a looming existential water crisis from the interlocking problems of drought, climate change, and falling underground water tables. Yet the potential answer to this problem is incredibly simple and only a lack of political will may defeat it. The solution is to send south to California the abundant waters of the Columbia River.
New ground water rules to take effect in […]
Continue reading EDITORIAL: San Joaquin Valley’s water solution? Look north to the mighty Columbia River ????
By The Associated Press
By DAVID A. LIEB, MICHAEL CASEY and MICHELLE MINKOFF Associated Press
On a cold morning last March, Kenny Angel got a frantic knock on his door. Two workers from a utility company in northern Nebraska had come with a stark warning: Get out of your house.
Just a little over a quarter-mile upstream, the 92-year-old Spencer Dam was straining to contain the swollen, ice-covered […]
Continue reading Oregon dams among more than 1,600 at risk nationally, AP investigation finds
November 6th, 2019 | Category: Columbia River, Featured Posts, Groundwater, Legal, News, Oregon, Privatization, Protection, Surface Water, United States, Washington |
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Evan Bush Seattle Times staff reporter
WINTHROP, Okanogan County — Follow the water and you’ll find the money.
That’s how it often works in the dusty rural corners of Washington, where a Wall Street-backed firm is staking an ambitious venture on the state’s water.
Crown Columbia Water Resources since 2017 has targeted the water rights of farms on tributaries of the mighty Columbia River.
This March, […]
Continue reading Wall Street spends millions to buy up Washington state water
October 15th, 2019 | Category: Columbia River, Featured Posts, Grassroots Movements, News, Oregon, Protection, Rights of Nature, Surface Water, United States, Washington |
Brett VandenHeuvel, Executive Director,Columbia Riverkeeper
bv@columbiariverkeeper.org
Today I stood on the Columbia’s shores at Celilo Park and watched history in the making. Yakama Nation, supported by Lummi Nation, announced a bold vision: a Columbia River teeming with salmon, a restored Celilo Falls, and a Pacific Northwest powered by clean energy that does not drive salmon and orca to extinction. Yakama Nation Chairman Jode Goudy stated: “The Columbia River dams were […]
Continue reading Yakama and Lummi Nations Call for Removal of Three Columbia River Dams
By Associated Press
September 19, 2019
SEATTLE — US protections for the waters that a group of endangered orcas call home could soon expand beyond the Seattle area to encompass much of the West Coast, from the Canadian border to central California.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a proposal Wednesday to increase the critical habitat designation for southern resident killer whales by more than sevenfold under the Endangered Species Act.
Just 73 orcas remain in […]
Continue reading Feds propose major habitat protections for killer whales
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