On June 28, NEDC and a coalition of conservation groups filed a formal notice of our intent to sue the Federal Emergency Management Agency over its failure to protect threatened floodplain-dependent salmon, steelhead, and orcas in Oregon. FEMA’s National Flood … Read More
Oregon’s air permitting regulations are past due for a major overhaul. Under the current rules, many industrial facilities are issued permits with emission limits that are well above what the facility is physically capable of emitting. As a result, these … Read More
Recent NEDC Clean Water Act enforcement actions helped fund a series of river cleanups this summer across Portland. In July, SOLVE Oregon used funds from an NEDC settlement to organize an extensive cleanup of the Holgate Channel, an ecologically important … Read More