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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
Posted: January 16, 2020 3:39 AM YakTriNews.com by Associated Press, KAPP/KVEW Staff
SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Widespread snowstorms have boosted Oregon’s previously anemic snow pack to almost normal levels statewide in just two weeks.
The biggest improvements in what is called “snow-water equivalent” are in the Hood, Sandy and Lower Deschutes basins.
Those areas were at 26% of normal on Dec. 30 and are now at 90% of normal.
Last year saw something similar unfold in Oregon.
Snowpack […]
Continue reading Snowstorms boost anemic snowpack in Oregon in just 2 weeks
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
January 10th, 2020 | Category: Featured Posts, News, Oregon, United States |
Elise Heron, Willamette Week
January 9, 2020
It’s been an abnormally dry winter in Oregon, and snowpack levels are well below normal.
According to the January water supply report from the Natural Resources Conservation Service, a warm, dry first three months of the 2019-20 water year (October-January) have left the state in drought-range conditions.
“November, usually one the wettest months of the year, was exceptionally dry,” the report read, “setting many records for […]
Continue reading A Dry Oregon Winter Leads to Below Normal Snowpack Levels and Drought-Range Condition
January 10th, 2020 | Category: Featured Posts, News, Oregon, United States | By Kale Williams The Oregonian January 9, 2020
Massive tides, dragged up the shore by the gravitational pull of the sun and the moon, will wash up on the Oregon coast this weekend, giving researchers a glimpse of what threats climate change might pose to coastal communities.
The high tides forecast for Friday, Saturday and Sunday, informally known as king tides, occur a few times a year when […]
Continue reading Oregon coast braces for massive king tides this weekend; researchers warn this is the future
NPR
January 1, 20205:00 AM ET
EMILY CURETON
In a desert far from any city, farmers use groundwater to grow lush green hay. The hay fattens livestock all over the world. But there’s a big problem: The water is drying up. Now scientists warn it will take thousands of years for an aquifer in southeastern Oregon to recover, while residents there are already hurting.
At Marjorie and John Thelen’s house, the well ran dry in 2015.
“We’re not […]
Continue reading Water Crisis Puts Oregon Community At A Crossroads
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
Friday, December 27, 2019 6:58am
By Gillian Flaccus
The Associated Press
WARRENTON, Ore. — A rare environmental success story is unfolding in waters off Oregon and California.
After years of fear and uncertainty, bottom trawler fishermen — those who use nets to scoop up rockfish, bocaccio, sole, Pacific Ocean perch and other deep-dwelling fish — are making a comeback in Oregon and California, reinventing themselves as a sustainable industry less than two decades after authorities closed huge […]
Continue reading Oregon, California fishery rebounds in conservation ‘home run’
by Erin Ross
OPB Dec. 23, 2019
For marina owner Jim Nielson, occasional floods are the price you pay for shorefront property on the Oregon Coast.
His shop, the Wheeler Marina, sits in an estuary where the Nehalem River opens into the eponymous bay. It’s sheltered from Pacific waves by a narrow spit of sand dunes. Stacks of colorful kayaks border the dirt parking lot. An aging black lab greets visitors’ pets before […]
Continue reading Oregon Coastal Towns Confront A Fate Tied To Antarctica’s Melting Glaciers
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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