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 30, 2009 | Blog, Native Fish News, News, Public Lands News, Wildlife News
(Dale, Oregon). Earlier this week, the District Ranger of the North Fork John Day Ranger District, Umatilla National Forest issued a one line statement pulling the Farley logging project in the face of objections from scientists. The Farley project proposed thousands...
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 29, 2009 | Blog, News
In response to Crag’s recent environmental justice victory, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has ordered reforms at the Office of Civil Rights to speed the processing of discrimination claims. In addition to ordering her staff “in the strongest terms, to...
by Crag Law Center | Sep 25, 2009 | Blog, News
Crag’s client, the Northwest Environmental Defense Center, just settled a Clean Water Act enforcement actions against the Oregon Department of Transportation. NEDC and Crag provided notice of intent to sue ODOT to enforce the terms of its Clean Water Act...
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...
