CLIMATE NEWS
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...
Something so important, so essential…
With all the buzz about the amazing Stories of Trust films Our Children’s Trust, WITNESS, and iMatter are putting together documenting the stories of the youth plaintiffs who are pursuing Atmospheric Trust Litigation (ATL) cases against their government, we thought it...
COMMUNITIES NEWS
On to the Supreme Court . . .
Across the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a spider web of logging roads crisscrosses the landscape from the steep hillsides of headwater areas to the lower elevation valleys. Each fall, iconic runs of salmon return to these watersheds, instinctively drawn to the...
Settlement Protects Oregon Wine Country
Oregon winegrowers know the importance of preserving prime agricultural land. Oregon’s land use laws are the reason the wine industry exists today. Without the establishment of Exclusive Farm Use zoning and Oregon’s comprehensive land use system, the hillsides the...
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...
THE WILD NEWS
Fighting For Its Life (Again): The Island Marble Butterfly
Crag’s attorneys are currently representing the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation in a battle to save a species of butterfly that was once thought to be extinct. The story of the Island Marble Butterfly begins on Vancouver Island in British Columbia in...
The Little River that Could
White Salmon River Saved from Residential Sprawl! Less than a year after the Condit Dam was removed from the White Salmon River, Crag secured another big victory for citizens and fish that rely on this Wild & Scenic River. Crag Law Center has been representing...
Case Will Decide Future of Hood’s Alpine Flanks
Master Plan, Chronic Degradation and Failed Restoration at Center of Challenge to Downhill Mountain Bike Trails Proposed at Historic Timberline Lodge Historic Timberline Lodge. Timberline Lodge was saved from being burned to the ground by the late Richard L....