by Maura Fahey | Mar 31, 2014 | Environmental Health News, Features
Today the Crag Law Center filed a complaint in federal court on behalf of Bear Creek Recovery to hold the City of Molalla accountable for years of alleged violations of the Clean Water Act. Bear Creek Recovery is a group of local Molalla residents that are concerned...
by Crag Law Center | Mar 25, 2014 | Environmental Health News, News
On behalf of Beyond Toxics, Crag Legal Fellow Maura Fahey drafted a petition to pressure the Department of Agriculture to release records regarding an investigation into a potentially illegal aerial herbicide spraying near Gold Beach. As a result, the Department of...
by Courtney Johnson | Sep 27, 2013 | Environmental Health News, Land Use News, News
This week, Jackson County’s Hearings Officer issued decisions that should halt operations at an asphalt plant on Bear Creek in Talent, Oregon. Mountain View Paving sought recognition as a grandfathered use that could continue to operate in violation of land use...
by Crag Law Center | Mar 21, 2013 | Environmental Health News, Features, Native Fish News, News
March 20, 2013, Washington, DC — Today the U.S. Supreme Court reversed and remanded a Ninth Circuit ruling requiring Clean Water Act permits for discharges of heavily polluted stormwater along two logging roads in northwest Oregon. Under the Supreme Court’s 7-1...
by Crag Law Center | Sep 7, 2012 | Blog, Environmental Health News, Native Fish News
Across the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a spider web of logging roads crisscrosses the landscape from the steep hillsides of headwater areas to the lower elevation valleys. Each fall, iconic runs of salmon return to these watersheds, instinctively drawn to the...
by Ralph Bloemers | May 2, 2012 | Environmental Health News, Features, News
Almost a half century ago, a company that is now owned by Bayer Cropscience made and profited from the sale of toxic chemicals known as Agent Orange that were used in the Vietnam War. The Department of Defense bought tens of millions of gallons of Agent...
