CLIMATE NEWS
Crag Scores Important Win in Case to Protect the Salish Sea
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...
Youth Climate Case Heads to the Oregon Supreme Court
Oregon Supreme Court Grants Plaintiffs’ Request to Take Up Youth Climate Lawsuit Against the State Crag and our young clients Kelsey Juliana and Ollie Chernaik are gearing up to go the Oregon Supreme Court. On May 23, 2019, the Oregon Supreme Court granted the youth...
Oregon Youth Climate Case Heats Up
Crag takes youth climate case to the Oregon Supreme Court Crag Law Center is asking the Oregon Supreme Court to take up the case of Oregon youth who are suing the state government for failing to protect our shared natural resources from the devastating impacts of...
COMMUNITIES NEWS
Oregon Farmland Protected at Port Westward!
Court Decision Effectively Halts Plans for Proposed Methanol Refinery, Industrial Expansion at Columbia River Port Crag is celebrating with our client Columbia Riverkeeper on a key victory for farmland and our climate. On May 22, 2019 the Oregon Court of Appeals...
Protecting Rural Coastal Lands from Sprawl
Protecting Rural Coastal Lands from Sprawl On August 24, 2018, Crag and our client, Oregon Shores Conservation Coalition, celebrated a win for rural working lands and the laws that protect coastal landscapes. In 2004, Oregonians adopted a law that rolled back...
Second Win for Farmland at Port Westward
The Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals rejected Columbia County's second attempt to open 837 acres of high-value agricultural land along the Columbia River to industrial development. The Port of St. Helens proposes doubling the size of its rural Port Westward property...
THE WILD NEWS
Coalition Challenges Boardman to Hemingway Transmission Line
Crag is representing a group of concerned residents across Oregon who have joined forces to oppose construction of the massive, nearly 300-mile-long, Boardman to Hemingway (B2H) high-voltage transmission line. Crag, along with co-counsel Dave Becker, filed a complaint...
Central Oregon Wild Lands Protected!
In a victory for public lands, wildlife, and native fish, Judge Marco Hernández ruled that the Forest Service failed to satisfy its legal obligation to study the environmental impacts of a major new trail system for off-road vehicles, and to ensure that...
Victory on the Tongass!
Crag and clients Greenpeace and Cascadia Wildlands have scored a huge win for old-growth forests and wildlife in Southeast Alaska's Tongass National Forest. Crag brought the "Islands Wolf" lawsuit against the Forest Service all the way back in 2008. After a...