CLIMATE NEWS
Oregon Climate Case Appealed
Today, Crag’s clients, two courageous young women from Eugene, announced their decision to Appeal their Atmospheric Trust case to Oregon’s Court of Appeals. At the same time, the girls’ announced that they are asking the Court of Appeals to send the case straight up...
Nestlé Issue Transcends Environmental Movement
This week Crag Law Center filed protests of two Water Resources Department decisions that start the approvals process for a Nestlé water bottling plant in the Columbia Gorge. The decisions under protest are integral to a water rights exchange between the Oregon...
Protests Filed to Protect Oregon Spring Water from Nestlé
On behalf of Bark and Food and Water Watch, Crag filed two protests challenging the Oregon Water Resources Department’s (Water Department) approval of permits that move Nestlé one key step closer to bottling and selling Oregon’s water. Crag is donating our services...
COMMUNITIES NEWS
Lawsuit Filed to Protect Environmental Justice Community from Columbia River Crossing Impacts
On July 2, 2012 the Crag Law Center and Organizing People-Activating Communities (OPAL) launched a lawsuit challenging the Columbia River Crossing project on behalf of an environmental justice community living on Hayden Island. Local citizens living in the low-income...
Crag Thwarts Bayer Cropscience’s Attempt to Shirk Responsibility for Alkali Lake Toxic Waste Dump
Almost a half century ago, a company that is now owned by Bayer Cropscience made and profited from the sale of toxic chemicals known as Agent Orange that were used in the Vietnam War. The Department of Defense bought tens of millions of gallons of Agent...
White Salmon River Valley Water Threatened
The Crag Law Center represents the Friends of the White Salmon River, the Friends of the Columbia Gorge and Citizens for Common Sense on the White Salmon in a challenge to a proposal floated by Klickitat County to rezone over 1,000 acres of land in the White Salmon...
THE WILD NEWS
A walk in the woods with the Forest Service
Nothing beats going on a hike on a sunny day in Oregon, especially when you’re in the company of Forest Service experts. Accompanied by two Crag summer interns, Derek Leuzzi and Alix Jacobson, I recently joined a group of Hood River Valley residents, Forest Service...
Crook River Destination Resort Rejected by LUBA
Crook River Destination Resort Rejected by Luba2011History A property adjacent to the Crook Point Unit of the Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge and the Pacific Ocean, and sandwiched between two state parks: Pistol River State Park to the north and Boardman State...
Land Trade to Protect the North Side of Mt. Hood Moving Forward
The Forest Service effort to protect the North side of Mt. Hood is underway. At long last, the Forest Service and Meadows are taking the formal steps to complete the protection of the North side at Cooper Spur as Wilderness and a watershed protection zone. Senator...