Help Protect Waldo Lake! Please take a moment today to e-mail Oregon DEQ and request that the Oregon Environmental Quality Commission grant our petition and commence a rule-making to designate Waldo Lake as an Outstanding Resource Water. waldolake2019@deq.state.or.us For … Read More
Regularly updating water pollution permits spurs innovation and progress. Thanks to the legal team at the Earthrise Law Center and to NEDC board member Karl Anuta for years of hard work on this matter, and to Governor Kate Brown for … Read More
In a victory for water quality statewide, NEDC and Columbia Riverkeeper reached a legal settlement with the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) regarding the contents of the permit responsible for regulating toxic stormwater pollution from over 800 industrial sites … Read More
The final chapter has closed in the multi-year lawsuit by NEDC, Columbia Riverkeeper, and the Sierra Club against the Port of Vancouver, Washington, over a proposal to build what would have been the nation’s largest rail-to-marine oil terminal there. In … Read More
Willamette Week journalists interview NEDC Executive Director Mark Riskedahl about this preventable catastrophe. Read more.