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March 30th, 2020 | Category: California, Featured Posts, Legal, News, Oregon, Protection, Rights of Nature, Southern Oregon, Surface Water, United States | By Gillian Flaccus | The Associated Press March 29, 2020
KLAMATH, Calif. — The second-largest river in California has sustained Native American tribes with plentiful salmon for millennia, provided upstream farmers with irrigation water for generations and served as a haven for retirees who built dream homes along its banks.
With so many competing demands, the Klamath River has come to symbolize a larger struggle over the increasingly precious water resources of the […]
Continue reading Proposed dam removal on Oregon-California border stirs debate over coveted water
by Holly Dillemuth
March 13, 2020
Agricultural producers in the Klamath Project have taken the water “takings” case to the highest court in the land.
Somach Simmons & Dunn from Sacramento, along with Timothy Bishop of the law firm Mayer Brown, filed a petition on the decision related to the class action case with the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday. Roger and Nancie Marzulla, of Marzulla Law, who both worked on the case for many years, have withdrawn as […]
Continue reading 2001 water “takings” case filed with U.S. Supreme Court
My Eastern Oregon February 25, 2020
Some major changes are coming in the way the Oregon Department of Agriculture handles water quality concerns. The ODA historically addresses water quality issues on a complaint-driven basis, but that will all change according to Kyle Sullivan with the Grant Soil Water Conservation District. He wants to inform local landowners that the state agency will be taking a more proactive approach:
“They’re changing gears a little bit, and going to something they call […]
Continue reading GRANT COUNTY OR: ODA to change water quality management
PASCO, Wash. — Oregon Gov. Kate Brown shifted the political debate from cap and trade during the short-session in Salem to the waters of the Columbia River’s largest tributary — the Snake River — and the four lower dams on the Eastern Washington portion of it.
Brown on Feb. 11 wrote a letter to Washington Gov. Jay Inslee expressing her support to remove the earthen portions from the four concrete lower Snake River dams.
She stated the science was clear […]
Continue reading Oregon looks upstream to the lower Snake River
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 25, 2020 Invest Records
Other folks that produce their living on the waters off the Oregon circulate contain prolonged acknowledged that ocean acidification is a area. As carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is absorbed by the ocean, it becomes extra acidic and carbonate ions, which many crustaceans utilize to manufacture their shells, turn into scarce.
Between 2006 and 2008, the Whiskey Creek Hatchery on Netarts Bay seen Continue reading Ocean acidification is impacting Dungeness crabs, Oregon’s most-notable fishery, stare reveals
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
By Benjamin VanHoose
January 16, 2020 People Magazine
The company that makes Crystal Geyser Natural Alpine Spring Water has admitted to illegally handling hazardous wastes at its facility in Olancha, California.
On Jan. 9, CG Roxane, LLC, the company behind the bottled water brand, pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful storage of hazardous waste and one count of unlawful transportation of hazardous material.
In a plea agreement filed in U.S. District Court, the beverage-maker agreed to […]
Continue reading Crystal Geyser Water Pleads Guilty to Dumping Arsenic into California’s Ecosystem
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
David Moryc | December 19, 2019
Oregon’s Senior U.S. Senator Ron Wyden has issued an unprecedented public callto action to protect more of the best rivers across the state as Wild and Scenic. He has initiated an open public process for Oregonians to nominate rivers that we would like to see him protect that are outstanding for their recreation, fish and wildlife habitat, or because they provide clean water. From now until January 20th, 2020 he […]
Continue reading Senator Wyden is giving us a voice, a direct vote, in the future of Oregon’s rivers.
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