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Lame Settlement on Alkali Lake Toxic Waste Dump Thwarted
2 May 2012
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Do You Need To See It To Believe It?
25 Apr 2012
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Nestlé Issue Transcends Environmental Movement
30 Mar 2012
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Lame Settlement on Alkali Lake Toxic Waste Dump Thwarted
Blog Archive
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Environmental Law, Past and Present
Posted on August 5, 2011 | No CommentsAs a student at the University of Oregon School of Law, Professor John Bonine’s essay, Private Public Interest Environmental Law: History, Hard Work, and Hope, is practically required reading for students interested in public interest environmental law. Besides detailing the nuts and bolts of starting... -
Proposed Budget Seeks to Cut Funding for the Environment
Posted on July 28, 2011 | No CommentsOn July 27, The Oregonian reported that the House rejected a rider to a GOP-proposed spending bill that would have stripped funding for the listing of new species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The bill would have only funded the removal of species from... -
EPA’s New Ozone Standards: Shifting the Burden of Pollution onto Big Industry
Posted on July 20, 2011 | No CommentsTo supplement Crag’s work representing Inupiat organizations along the North Slope of Alaska on offshore oil and gas drilling matters, I’ve been researching the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed revision of current ozone health standards set to be finalized this summer. The new ozone standards would... -
Loopholes for Logging Trucks
Posted on July 15, 2011 | 1 CommentLogging roads kill fish – its been proven time and time again by EPA, state agencies, and independent scientists – and dedicated fishermen will tell you the same thing. Heavily roaded watersheds often have depressed fish populations, because those roads generate tremendous amounts of sediment... -
Working Together to Save Our Oceans
Posted on July 6, 2011 | No CommentsOn Friday, July 1, I was given a chance to accompany staff attorney Courtney Johnson to the National Ocean Council’s Public Listening Session. At this session, we learned about the Council’s Strategic Action Plans as instructed by President Obama’s Executive Order. These Strategic Action Plans... -
A walk in the woods with the Forest Service
Posted on June 29, 2011 | No CommentsNothing beats going on a hike on a sunny day in Oregon, especially when you’re in the company of Forest Service experts. Accompanied by two Crag summer interns, Derek Leuzzi and Alix Jacobson, I recently joined a group of Hood River Valley residents, Forest Service... -
Climate Change – Don’t Stop Believing
Posted on June 22, 2011 | No CommentsIt’s only Wednesday and already there has been an onslaught of somewhat contradictory news about climate change this week. Let’s break it down. First, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that several States and land trusts could not pursue federal common law nuisance claims against operators... -
Giving Outdoor Excursions a New Meaning
Posted on June 15, 2011 | 1 CommentI love getting outside more than anything in the world. Over the last several years I have spent nearly all of my free time tromping around in the woods, skiing remote mountains, wandering the pacific coastline, slinking through desert formations, and viewing the world from... -
Mapping the Territorial Sea
Posted on June 8, 2011 | No CommentsAt Crag, we understand that litigation is just one tool in the toolbox for affecting the change necessary to protect our environment for future generations. We also focus on education, outreach, and grassroots support for our clients. Planning for renewable energy in Oregon’s territorial sea... -
We’re famous!
Posted on June 2, 2011 | No CommentsThe Crag Law Center has reached new levels of notoriety this past week when we were targeted in a blog post published by the Heritage Foundation. Unfortunately for Crag, the logic of the Heritage Foundation dooms this little blog post to the nether world of...