by Courtney Johnson | Apr 10, 2013 | Features, Land Use News, News
On Monday Crag filed appeals on behalf of Rogue Advocates challenging Jackson County’s March 25th approval of Mountain View Paving’s application for non-conforming use and floodplain development permits. Mountain View Paving has been operating an industrial facility...
by Crag Law Center | Apr 8, 2013 | Features, Fighting Fossil Fuels News, News
A second coal export project in Oregon and Washington was dropped on April 1st, marking a victory for local environmental groups, and, of course, the environment itself. This is the second of five Northwest coal export projects to fail in the past year—in 2012, Rail...
by Courtney Johnson | Apr 4, 2013 | Blog
For the past three years, I’ve been privileged to work with farmers and residents of Grand Island dedicated to protecting their quiet community and rural way of life. An island on the Willamette River near Dayton, Oregon, Grand Island is home to farmsteads,...
by Courtney Johnson | Mar 22, 2013 | Blog, Features
This week, the Supreme Court of the United States reversed and remanded the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision that had determined Clean Water Act permits are required for stormwater discharges from logging roads. The case involved some complicated legal...
by Crag Law Center | Nov 27, 2012 | Features, News, Public Lands News, Wildlife News
Eleven timber sales and all logging activities in known occupied marbled murrelet sites in the Tillamook, Clatsop, and Elliott State Forests have been halted due to the threat of harm to marbled murrelets – a threatened seabird that is protected under the Endangered...
