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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.
Minnesota Star Tribune By Joe Atkins and Mike Slavik, Opinion DECEMBER 12, 2019
Joe Atkins, of Inver Grove Heights, and Mike Slavik, of Hastings, serve on the Dakota County Board of Commissioners. Exporting water from Dakota County is a bad idea, the writers argue.
There are few resources more critical to the well-being of Dakota County and its residents both now and in the future than the county’s drinking water supply.
Yet it was this very water […]
Continue reading OPINION: Southwestern states, keep your hands off Dakota County water
November 27,2019
Center for Biological Diversity
Old-growth Forest East of Coos Bay Will Be Retained in Public Ownership
SALEM, Ore.— The Oregon Supreme Court today ruled that the sale of 788 acres of old-growth forest from the Elliott State Forest was illegal. The ruling affirms an Oregon Court of Appeals’ ruling from 2018, which found that selling the area known as East Hakki Ridge to a private […]
Continue reading Oregon Supreme Court Affirms Sale of Elliott State Forest Tract Is Illegal
by GEORGE WUERTHNER on NOVEMBER 22, 2019 · WILDLIFE NEWS
Fish and Wildlife Service
Deschutes River Habitat Conservation Plan comments
The following are comments on the Deschutes Basin Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) are submitted on behalf of Restore Our Deschutes (ROD). The main problem with the HCP is that its starting assumptions are backward. The plan is designed primarily to protect the economic interests of irrigators and only secondarily the […]
Continue reading Comments on Deschutes River Conservation Plan
November 14, 2019 Kym Kemp Redheaded Blackbelt
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit today upheld the senior water rights of the Hoopa Valley Tribe and other Tribes in an appeal by Baley v. United States. Baley and other Klamath Irrigation District farmers argued that the federal government took their water without compensation in 2001 when water deliveries were delayed in order to […]
Continue reading TODAY, US COURT OF APPEALS UPHELD SENIOR WATER RIGHTS OF TRIBES
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