CLIMATE NEWS

Coalition grows to defend Oregon Climate Policy

Coalition grows to defend Oregon Climate Policy

Coalition grows to defend Oregon climate policy Fifteen organizations join Crag clients against fuel industry attacks to state’s Climate Protection Program.  last updated January 19, 2022 | Megan GleasonOn September 7, 2022, Crag filed a motion to intervene to defend...

Defending Oregon’s Climate Policy

Defending Oregon’s Climate Policy

Defending Oregon’s Climate Policy Crag clients intervene to defend Climate Protection Program from oil and gas industry attackOn September 7, 2022, Crag filed a motion to intervene to defend Oregon’s landmark Climate Protection Program against legal attacks by the oil...

Crag Joins City of  Portland to Defend Denial of Zenith

Crag Joins City of Portland to Defend Denial of Zenith

Willamette and Columbia Riverkeepers Intervene at LUBA to Reinforce Portland’s Denial of Zenith’s Oil-by-Rail Facility On behalf of our clients Willamette Riverkeeper and Columbia Riverkeeper, Crag filed a Motion to Intervene in support of the City of Portland's...

COMMUNITIES NEWS

What does Environmental Justice actually look like at Crag?

What does Environmental Justice actually look like at Crag?

I’ve heard of Environmental Justice. But what does it actually look like at Crag? by Megan Gleason | February 21, 2023Attendees of the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit in 1991, including Makini Coleman, Mililani Trask, and Gail Small....

Achieving Environmental Justice through Legislation

Achieving Environmental Justice through Legislation

 How do you fight for environmental justice, when there are no concrete environmental justice laws? This is the question that community organizers and community-based lawyers alike have been grappling with for years. In theory, we have federal laws on the books...

Stopping Shoreline Armoring

Stopping Shoreline Armoring

Protecting Public Beach Access Challenging Shoreline Armoring by Lizzy Gazeley | June 16, 2022Riprap in Neskowin Beach, OR. Preserving public access to beaches is cherished by Oregonians and a defining feature of our state. Oregon is one of only three states in the...

THE WILD NEWS

Early victory in case to protect Siuslaw River Watershed

Early victory in case to protect Siuslaw River Watershed

Early victory in case to protect Siuslaw River Watershed Magistrate Judge allows suit against BLM logging project to move forward April 21, 2023 | by Kenji GulloJudge Kasubhai’s ruling affirms that we will get our day in court to challenge this massive logging...

Holding the line against logging in old-growth and ”reserve” forests

Holding the line against logging in old-growth and ”reserve” forests

Holding the line against logging in old-growth and ”reserve” forests Crag and conservation groups file challenge to BLM scheme to log 17,000 acres of protected forest April 10, 2023  We’re suing the Bureau of Land Management to stop the Penn Butte timber sale, which...

We can’t fight climate change with a chainsaw

We can’t fight climate change with a chainsaw

We can’t fight climate change with a chainsawForests and the climate are inextricably linked. Ask an Oregonian about climate change, and likely the first thing we’ll think of is forest–or rather, forest fire, the most visceral and dramatic symptom of the climate...

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