by Maura Fahey | May 9, 2018 | Communities News, Fighting Fossil Fuels News
When it comes to protecting the climate, we often find ourselves playing defense against massive fossil fuel development proposals that threaten our communities and environment. In the Pacific Northwest, we have experienced an onslaught of fossil fuel export proposals...
by Crag Law Center | May 9, 2018 | Communities News, Fighting Fossil Fuels News, Land Use News
Take a drive down the winding rural roads north of Clatskanie, Oregon. Meandering through this part of Columbia County, one cannot help but feel a sense of appreciation while observing some of the best farmland in the country. On these agricultural lands in the...
by Crag Law Center | May 9, 2018 | Fighting Fossil Fuels News
On behalf of a large coalition of local interests, Crag Law Center recently challenged a major expansion of the Tesoro oil refinery in Anacortes, Washington. Tesoro wants to produce a new fossil fuel-based product—mixed xylenes—that would be manufactured from crude...
by Ralph Bloemers | May 7, 2018 | Climate News, Land Use News
For over a decade, Crag has been working with local communities to hold the line against new fossil fuel terminals and pipelines along the Oregon Coast, including in Coos Bay and the lower Columbia River estuary. Even though the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission...
by Crag Law Center | Mar 7, 2018 | Climate Justice News, Features
Court Rejects Trump’s Attempt to Evade Constitutional Climate Trial Today, Chief Judge Sidney R. Thomas, writing for a unanimous three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the Trump administration’s “drastic and extraordinary” petition for writ...
by Maura Fahey | Jan 4, 2018 | Features, Fighting Fossil Fuels News
Today, the Oregon Court of Appeals reversed, in large part, a Land Use Board of Appeals (LUBA) decision that invalidated Portland’s landmark Fossil Fuel Terminal Zoning Amendments, passed unanimously in December 2016. The Court ruled that Portland did not violate the...
