On July 2, 2012 the Crag Law Center and Organizing People-Activating Communities (OPAL) launched a lawsuit challenging the Columbia River Crossing project on behalf of an environmental justice community living on Hayden Island. Local citizens living in the low-income...
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...
The 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 the White Salmon...
Oregon’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...
Over the past several weeks, we’ve had several questions from our supporters and other members of the public about NEDC v. Brown, the recent Ninth Circuit case involving logging road pollution and water quality. Working with our client, the Northwest Environmental...
To 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...
