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By Associated Press, Wire Service Content June 24, 2020,
BY JOHN ROGERS, Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Major California cities say they’ll use their share of a $650 million settlement to clean up the now-banned chemical PCB from bays, lakes and other waterways polluted for decades.
The giant chemical company Monsanto announced a tentative agreement Wednesday with government entities that had filed suit since 2015 over waterways and estuaries they say were polluted.
PCBs […]
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June 23rd, 2020 | Category: California, Featured Posts, Legal, News, Oregon, Protection, Rights of Nature, Southern Oregon, Surface Water, United States | June 22, 2020
Jeremy P. Jacobs, E&E News
The Supreme Court today declined to consider whether federal regulators violated farmers’ constitutional rights when they cut off irrigation water to save fish in the Pacific Northwest.
Facing drought in 2001, the George W. Bush administration shut off water deliveries from the Bureau of Reclamation’s Klamath River project to farms in south-central Oregon and Northern California. The goal was to provide water to threatened salmon species downriver.
The farmers revolted. They […]
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June 22, 2020
KTVZ.com
PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality said a new federal rule that took effect Monday “has serious and potentially damaging implications for ensuring clean, safe and healthy water in Oregon and elsewhere.”
Here’s Oregon DEQ’s full statement on the impacts of the new rule:
The rule imposes a new definition of Waters of the United States, or WOTUS, under the federal Clean Water Act that reduces the extent of water bodies protected […]
Continue reading Oregon DEQ sharply critical of new federal ‘Waters of the U.S.’ rule
Portland Tribune
Nick Budnick
June 17, 2020
California federal case features familiar debate over whether fluoridation should continue, including in Oregon.
In a broadcast that rewound the clock to pre-coronavirus times, a live-streamed federal trial in San Francisco revisited the fluoridation debate that gripped the city of Portland in 2013.
Since June 8, Food and Water Watch, the Fluoride Action Network and other groups have engaged in the Continue reading Portland fluoridation clash echoes in unprecedented trial
June 18. 2020
The Fifth Amendment protects the right to life, liberty, and property. This week, the Supreme Court should take a critical step to protect the private property rights of farmers and ranchers in the Western states. Their rights were infringed upon by a lower court ruling that upended the water laws of the region and abandoned over a century of federal deference to state law for adjudicating and administering water rights.
The Supreme Court is considering whether to […]
Continue reading OP ED: Republicans say Supreme Court must prevent uncompensated theft of Western water
June 17, 2020
Beveridge & Diamond PC Eric Christensen
Drawing on the long history of Oregon water rights, the Oregon Court of Appeals on June 10, 2020, issued an opinion in WaterWatch of Oregon v. Water Resources Department that carries significant implications for hydroelectric projects as well as for water rights more generally. Taken at face value, the case turns on an apparently technical dispute about how to interpret two Oregon water statutes, ORS 543A.305 and […]
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Jun 09, 2020 By Dan Ross | Fairwarning.org
A federal court trial underway in San Francisco could spell the beginning of the end of water fluoridation in America, potentially affecting drinking water for hundreds of millions of people across the U.S.
Although fluoride can occur naturally in water, many water utilities add the chemical with the goal of improving dental health. But an alliance of groups led by Food & Water Watch, a […]
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May 20th, 2020 | Category: Columbia River, Featured Posts, News, Oregon, Other States, Protection, Rights of Nature, Surface Water, United States, Washington | Study issued Tuesday looks at causes of warming water on Snake and Columbia rivers
By Eric Barker, of the Tribune
May 20, 2020 Updated 1 hr ago
The Environmental Protection Agency issued a report Tuesday detailing summertime water temperature problems on the lower Snake and Columbia rivers and assigning significant responsibility to federal dams.
The report said dams on both rivers play a role in raising water temperatures above 68 degrees — the state water quality standards of Washington […]
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May 15th, 2020 | Category: California, Featured Posts, Legal, Maine, Massachussetts, New Hampshire, New York, News, Oregon, Other States, Protection, Surface Water, United States, Vermont, Washington, Water Conservation | Enrique Saenz May 14, 2020 Two Democratic lawmakers have introduced a bill to block the implementation of a Trump administration rule limiting the scope of bodies of water that fall under federal jurisdiction.
House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure chair Rep. Peter DeFazio, of Oregon, and Chair of the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Rep. Grace Napolitano, of California, submitted a bill to block the Navigable Waters Protection Rule finalized […]
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Wednesday, May 13, 2020 Food & Water Watch
Emma Newton, enewton@fwwatch.org, (971)266-4557
Supply chain chaos caused by COVID-19 is making milk oversupply problems even worse, yet Oregon officials consider permitting new mega-dairy.
Salem, OR – Stand Up To Factory Farms, a broad coalition of environmental, food safety, family farming, and animal welfare organizations fighting to protect Oregon from mega-dairies, calls on Governor Brown and the Oregon Department of Agriculture to protect small dairy farmers during the […]
Continue reading Oregon Department of Agriculture Considers Permitting New Mega-Dairy, Easterday Farms, While Small Dairy Farmers Dump Milk
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