by Suzanne Savell | Aug 26, 2014 | Features, News, Wildlife News
Today, the Crag Law Center filed a new lawsuit to stop a Forest Service project that would log more than 6,000 acres of irreplaceable old-growth temperate rainforest in Southeast Alaska. The Big Thorne timber sale is planned on the Tongass National Forest and would...
by Suzanne Savell | Aug 18, 2014 | Features, Fighting Fossil Fuels News, News
Today, the Oregon Department of State Land announced that it had denied a permit for a proposed coal export terminal at the Port of Morrow on the Columbia River. The coal export terminal is being proposed by Ambre Energy, an Australian company, that plans to use the...
by Crag Law Center | Aug 15, 2014 | Features, Fighting Fossil Fuels News, News
Today, a federal judge in Portland, Oregon sharply rebuked the Army Corps of Engineers for its secrecy over a coal export proposal at the Port of Morrow on the Columbia River. Despite overwhelming public concern about the impacts of the project on the Columbia River...
by Suzanne Savell | Aug 13, 2014 | Environmental Health News, Features, News
Today, the Crag Law Center filed a first-of-its kind lawsuit to protect families in rural Oregon from chemical trespass and exposure to toxic herbicides and pesticides. In October of 2013, the rural community of Gold Beach, Oregon was sprayed by a soup of toxic...
by Crag Law Center | Aug 6, 2014 | Environmental Health News, Environmental Justice News, News
Today, the Crag Law Center, along with client Beyond Toxics filed a civil rights and environmental justice complaint against the Lane County Regional Air Protection Agency (LRAPA). The complaint was filed with EPA’s Office of Civil Rights and relates to...
by Crag Law Center | Jul 30, 2014 | Features, News, Wildlife News
This month, Crag won an injunction compelling the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to take action on listing the Leona’s little blue butterfly under the Endangered Species Act after years of delay. The Leona’s little blue butterfly was discovered in 1995. It is found...
