by CRAG Law Center | Aug 3, 2011 | News, Public Lands News, Wildlife News
Crag recently won a key victory in the fight to preserve old-growth forest and wildlife habitat in the Tongass National Forest. In the case – Greenpeace v. Cole – the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals threw out four old-growth timber sales that would have logged...
by CRAG Law Center | Jul 28, 2011 | Blog, Native Fish News, Public Lands News, Wildlife News
On July 27, The Oregonian reported that the House rejected a rider to a GOP-proposed spending bill that would have stripped funding for the listing of new species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The bill would have only funded the removal of species from the...
by CRAG Law Center | Jul 20, 2011 | Blog, Environmental Health News, News
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...
by CRAG Law Center | Jul 15, 2011 | Blog, Features, Native Fish News, News
Logging roads kill fish – its been proven time and time again by EPA, state agencies, and independent scientists – and dedicated fishermen will tell you the same thing. Heavily roaded watersheds often have depressed fish populations, because those roads generate...
by CRAG Law Center | Jul 6, 2011 | Blog, Native Fish News
On Friday, July 1, I was given a chance to accompany staff attorney Courtney Johnson to the National Ocean Council’s Public Listening Session. At this session, we learned about the Council’s Strategic Action Plans as instructed by President Obama’s Executive...
by CRAG Law Center | Jul 5, 2011 | Environmental Health News, Environmental Justice News, Features, News
Crag has partnered with three organizations in California to file a federal lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency and Administrator Lisa P. Jackson for their failure to enforce and uphold Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. Crag filed the environmental...
