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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
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Do You Need To See It To Believe It?
Posted on April 25, 2012 | No Comments“It really touched me how [a blind lady shopping for produce] did not need to see something to believe it was there. It’s a lot like climate change actually, you can’t just deny all the evidence that climate change is there because we can’t see... -
Nestlé Issue Transcends Environmental Movement
Posted on March 30, 2012 | No CommentsThis week Crag Law Center filed protests of two Water Resources Department decisions that start the approvals process for a Nestlé water bottling plant in the Columbia Gorge. The decisions under protest are integral to a water rights exchange between the Oregon Department of Fish... -
Protests Filed to Protect Oregon Spring Water from Nestlé
Posted on March 29, 2012 | 3 CommentsOn behalf of Bark and Food and Water Watch, Crag filed two protests challenging the Oregon Water Resources Department’s (Water Department) approval of permits that move Nestlé one key step closer to bottling and selling Oregon’s water. Crag is donating our services to protest the... -
Something so important, so essential…
Posted on March 16, 2012 | No CommentsWith all the buzz about the amazing Stories of Trust films Our Children’s Trust, WITNESS, and iMatter are putting together documenting the stories of the youth plaintiffs who are pursuing Atmospheric Trust Litigation (ATL) cases against their government, we thought it would be helpful to... -
White Salmon River Valley Water Threatened
Posted on March 6, 2012 | 2 CommentsThe Crag Law Center represents the Friends of the White Salmon River, the Friends of the Columbia Gorge and Citizens for Common Sense on the White Salmon in a challenge to a proposal floated by Klickitat County to rezone over 1,000 acres of land in... -
Climate Change is the Issue for the Day
Posted on January 27, 2012 | No CommentsCrag staff attorney Tanya Sanerib appeared in Lane County Circuit Court on Monday (1/23/12) to defend a lawsuit filed by our clients – 11 year old Olivia Chernaik and 15 year old Kelsey Juliana – demanding that the state of Oregon and Governor John Kitzhaber... -
Darkness, Light and Hope
Posted on December 21, 2011 | No CommentsThe Winter Solstice – the darkest day of the year – is my favorite holiday. It offers the opportunity to reflect on the darkness of the past four seasons, to embrace that darkness and all it has taught us, and to let the darkness go... -
Oregon Supreme Court Victory for Farm and Forestlands!
Posted on October 21, 2011 | No CommentsOregon’s epic battle over land use and property rights in Measure 37 and Measure 49 closed a chapter this week. Yesterday, the Oregon Supreme Court issued its decision in Friends of Yamhill County v. Board of Commissioners of Yamhill County, finding that Yamhill County violated... -
Our Climate. Our Future. Our Revolution.
Posted on September 29, 2011 | 1 CommentWatch the Video On May 5, youth in Oregon sued Governor Kitzhaber for failing to adequately protect our atmosphere from climate change. At the same time, members of the next generation also sued the federal government, several other states, and launched lawsuits in other countries... -
Court Rejects Old-Growth Clearcuts in the Tongass National Forest
Posted on August 3, 2011 | 1 CommentCrag recently won a key victory in the fight to preserve old-growth forest and wildlife habitat in the Tongass National Forest. In the case – Greenpeace v. Cole – the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals threw out four old-growth timber sales that would have logged...