CLIMATE NEWS
Crag Files Challenge to Proposed Fracked Gas Power Plant
On November 1, 2019, Crag filed a request for a hearing to challenge Perennial Wind Chaser’s (Perennial) proposed 415-megawatt fracked gas-fired power plant, near Hermiston, Ore. Crag is representing Columbia Riverkeeper, Friends of the Columbia Gorge, and Oregon...
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...
COMMUNITIES NEWS
A Win for rural lands in Douglas County!
Land Use Board of Appeals (LUBA) Remands Douglas County Revisions to Land Use Comprehensive PlanOn Friday, August 2nd, LUBA took a huge step in protecting farm and forestland in Douglas County. LUBA remanded a Douglas County decision to amend its comprehensive plan...
Victory for Oregon Wine Country!
Yamhill County Farmers and Vintners Celebrate Court Ruling Protects Oregon Wine Country from Rural Sprawl In two decisions issued last week, the Oregon Court of Appeals took a big step to preserve Oregon farm and forest lands from large developments proposed under...
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...
THE WILD NEWS
Victory! Court Halts Roadside Post-fire Logging Project
Victory! Court Halts Roadside Post-fire Logging Project2021The injunction prevents more of this - logging of large and old trees that are critical for the recovering post-fire ecosystem.Judge Halts Willamette National Forest Roadside Logging Project Finds Agency...
Fragile post-fire forests saved in Rogue-Siskiyou Forest
Victory in the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest2021Photos by Luke RuedigerLawsuit stops commercial logging in fragile post-fire areas In October 2021, a lawsuit Crag filed on behalf of Klamath Forest Alliance effectively stopped commercial logging in fragile...
Crag files lawsuit to stop illegal logging after fires
Remote road proposed for logging. Photo by Ralph Bloemers.Forest Service’s aggressive post-fire logging project is wrong approach for recovering forests. On August 18, Crag filed a new lawsuit alleging that the Willamette National Forest violated a series of...