by CRAG Law Center | May 10, 2022 | Climate Victories, Community Victories
Victory for Farmland, Water and Salmon! 2022 Appeals Board Ruling Protects High-Value Farmland, Clean Water, and Salmon Habitat in the Lower Columbia. On May 9, 2022 Columbia County’s effort to rezone hundreds of acres at Port Westward was overturned by the Oregon...
by CRAG Law Center | Apr 29, 2022 | Wild Victories
Victory for Oregon State Forests! 2022 Court Overturns $1.1 Billion Verdict that Would Have Mandated Maximal Logging On Wednesday, the Oregon Court of Appeals erased the verdict of a 2019 Linn County lawsuit that sought more than a billion dollars from taxpayers on...
by CRAG Law Center | Apr 12, 2022 | Community Victories, Wild Victories
Big Trees Saved in the Little Butte Creek Watershed 2022 Photos courtesy of Kelsey Furman. Conservation lawsuit convinces BLM to pull controversial timber sale An old-growth forest near Medford, Oregon is off the chopping block for the time being thanks to a legal...
by CRAG Law Center | Feb 4, 2022 | Climate Victories, Community Victories
LUBA upholds City’s right to deny fossil fuel expansion 2022 Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals Rules Portland Has Authority to Deny Zenith Oil Storage Facility Permits; Must Make Additional Findings On February 3, 2022, Oregon’s Land Use Board of Appeals (LUBA) upheld...
by Lizzy Gazeley | Dec 6, 2021 | Features, Victories, Wild Victories
Victory! Judge Halts Post-Fire Logging near Breitenbush 2021 Forest Service Forest Unlawfully Changed Logging Contracts Following 2020 Wildfires On December 3, 2021 a federal judge enjoined post-fire logging on the Willamette National Forest near Detroit Lake and...
by CRAG Law Center | Dec 2, 2021 | Climate Victories, Coastal Law Project Victories, Community Victories
Victory! The end to Jordan Cove LNG 2021 After more than 15 years of community organizing, the Jordan Cove LNG export terminal and fracked gas pipeline project is dead. Company Asks Federal Agency to Cancel Permit for Fracked Gas Project. On December 1, 2021, Pembina,...
