by Ralph Bloemers | Nov 2, 2009 | Environmental Health News, Environmental Justice News
Obama Official Orders Reforms in EPA Office of Civil Rights For over five years now, the Crag Law Center has represented the Rosemere Neighborhood Association of Vancouver, Washington. Rosemere Neighborhood Association filed a complaint with the US EPA that detailed...
by Ralph Bloemers | Oct 15, 2009 | Land Use News
In 2004, a majority of Oregonians voted for ballot initiative Measure 37 only to later discover that the measure threatened to unravel Oregon’s land use system. The measure permitted landowners to file claims demanding that all land use regulations be removed...
by Crag Law Center | Sep 24, 2009 | Blog, Environmental Justice News, News
Our friend Professor Noah Hall from Wayne State University maintains an excellent blog about the Great Lakes ecoregion. He just published a guest post by Staff Attorney Chris Winter about our recent environmental justice victory with the Rosemere Neighborhood...
by Crag Law Center | Aug 3, 2009 | Blog, Land Use News, Public Lands News, Wildlife News
At 92 years-young, Kate McCarthy has probably been hiking the trails of Mt. Hood longer than anyone else on Earth. As a young teenage girl, she camped in lush alpine meadows filled with wildflowers and song birds and learned to mountaineer with her father. Later, she...
by Crag Law Center | May 8, 2009 | Blog, Environmental Justice News, News
For the last two and half years, Crag has been working with Inupiat Eskimos on the North Slope of Alaska to protect their traditional subsistence hunting grounds from offshore oil drilling. In April of 2007, Royal Dutch Shell proposed to drill up to 12 wells directly...
by Courtney Johnson | May 6, 2009 | Blog, Coastal Law Project News, Land Use News, News
Last week, Crag celebrated with Oregon Shores and local Bandon area residents when the Land Use Board of Appeals (LUBA) struck down Coos County’s approval of a large-scale development on the banks of the Coquille River. The proposal would have entailed...