CLIMATE NEWS
Defending Portland’s Fossil Fuel Ordinance
Crag Represents Coalition of Public Health, Environmental, & Sustainable Economy Groups in Opposing Industry Lawsuit Challenging Portland's Fossil Fuel Terminals Ordinance. Today Crag filed a motion to intervene in an industry-backed lawsuit challenging Portland’s...
Klamath Advocates Go To Court Over Wildlife Management
On January 17, Crag filed suit on behalf of three conservation groups, Audubon Society of Portland, Oregon Wild and WaterWatch of Oregon, in federal court against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for failure to follow federal law in the creation of the Comprehensive...
Feds Deny Jordan Cove LNG Terminal and Pacific Connector Pipeline
In December 2016, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) denied a request from Canadian oil and gas companies for rehearing of the case surrounding the proposed Jordan Cove Liquefied Natural Gas Terminal and Pacific...
COMMUNITIES NEWS
Rogue Valley Victory Upheld!
Yesterday the Land Use Board of Appeals upheld a recent victory that Crag secured on behalf of Rogue Advocates, upholding a Jackson County Hearings Officer's decision that denies land use approval for an asphalt batch plant operation that has been illegally operating...
Crag Files Clean Air Act Lawsuit Against Illegal Asphalt Plant
Earlier today, Crag filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Rogue Advocates against the Mountain View Paving asphalt batch plant to enforce the company’s Clean Air Act permit for the protection of the surrounding community. The lawsuit comes in the wake of last week's...
Court Denies USDA Motion in Organic Compost Case
Yesterday a federal court in California denied a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) motion to dismiss a lawsuit challenging its allowance of pesticide-contaminated compost in organic food production without a formal rulemaking and a public comment period. Crag...
THE WILD NEWS
Lawsuit Challenges Plan to Log Alaska Old Growth
Crag Law Center is representing five environmental organizations in a lawsuit that challenges a plan to log the old-growth forests of Mitkof Island, near the Southeast Alaska community of Petersburg. On behalf of the groups, today Crag filed suit in Alaska District...
Judge Affirms Ruling Favoring Wildlife on Klamath Refuges
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service given August 2016 deadline to complete plan to ensure commercial agribusiness doesn’t harm refuge wildlife Medford, OR - Yesterday, a U.S. District Judge issued a ruling ordering the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to...
Tongass Logging Halted For Two Weeks Pending Appeal
Judge Beistline (U.S. District Court, Anchorage) has granted a temporary injunction of The Big Thorne timber sale, which involves the proposed logging of more than 6,000 acres of old-growth coastal rainforest in one of the most sensitive areas of the Tongass National...