by Oliver Stiefel | Aug 23, 2021 | Features, The Wild News
Remote road proposed for logging. Photo by Ralph Bloemers. Forest Service’s aggressive post-fire logging project is wrong approach for recovering forests. On August 18, Crag filed a new lawsuit alleging that the Willamette National Forest violated a series of...
by Oliver Stiefel | May 7, 2020 | Newsletter
Old Growth in Southeast Alaska’s Tongass National Forest. (Photo courtesy of Oliver Stiefel) Signed into law by President Nixon in 1970, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) was designed to ensure “democratic decision making” by requiring federal...
by Oliver Stiefel | Apr 22, 2020 | Features, Public Lands News
Crag Files New Case to Protect the Ochoco Mountains by Oliver Stiefel |April 23, 2020 On Monday April 20, Crag filed a new federal lawsuit challenging a major logging project in the Ochoco National Forest in Central Oregon. Filed on behalf of long-time clients Central...
by Oliver Stiefel | Dec 31, 2019 | Climate News, Features
Deal Prevents Climate Pollution, Protects Southern Resident Orcas Thanks to Crag and our clients, another Pacific Northwest fossil fuel project bites the dust! In a settlement agreement announced on December 30, 2019, the owners of the Anacortes Oil Refinery agreed to...
by Oliver Stiefel | Oct 16, 2019 | Features, Fighting Fossil Fuels News, News, Uncategorized
On Friday October 11, the Thurston County Superior Court agreed with a coalition of groups that the Shorelines Hearings Board must address whether an Environmental Impact Statement prepared by Skagit County adequately considers impacts to critically endangered...