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| 4/19/2006 | |
| A loophole in state regulations that allows “toxic mixing zones†gives the green light to factories and cities to dump millions of pounds of pollution into Oregon’s Willamette River, which American Rivers today named as America’s #3 most endangered river for 2006. | |
| 12/17/2004 | |
| President Bush responded to the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy's (USCOP) report today by signing an executive order to establish a cabinet-level Committee on Ocean Policy. | |
| 10/19/2004 | |
| SAN FRANCISCO—A new state-by-state survey of Clean Water Act enforcement efforts by state environmental agencies reveals that the majority of states completing the survey are failing to adequately enforce key provisions of the federal Clean Water Act because they lack resources sufficient to achieve the task. | |
| 10/14/2004 | |
| PORTLAND—In 2003 the state of Oregon issued warnings against eating fish due to mercury contamination covering 16,058 acres of its lakes and 460 miles of its rivers according to a new “Fishing for Trouble: How Toxic Mercury Contaminates the Fish in U.S. Waterways†report released today by the Oregon State Public Interest Research Group (OSPIRG) | |
| 08/05/2004 | |
| PORTLAND—It's become a familiar refrain every summer: "Beach closures and advisories are up…again." But this year, it's even worse. NRDC's (Natural Resources Defense Council) annual beach report, released today, found more closures and advisories in 2003 than at any other time in the 14 years the organization has been monitoring them. | |
| 08/03/2004 | |
| PORTLAND—In recent U.S. EPA tests of fish caught from America's lakes, every fish sample tested was contaminated with mercury, 55 percent contained mercury levels that exceed EPA's "safe" limit for women of childbearing age, and 76 percent exceeded the safe limit for children under age three, according to a new Clear the Air report released today. | |
| 06/29/2006 | |
| The U.S. House of Representatives this afternoon voted to allow oil and gas drilling off America’s coasts. Oregon Representatives Peter DeFazio and Greg Walden both voted in favor of the measure, which would open areas off the Oregon coast; the rest of the Oregon delegation voted against. | |
| 06/28/2007 | |
| Salem—Governor Kulongoski helped Oregon take a significant step toward cleaner waterways and reduced toxic pollution today by signing a clean water bill into law. The bill, sponsored by Sens. Vicki Walker (D-Eugene) and Gary George (R-Newberg) and backed by Environment Oregon, requires a statewide assessment of toxic pollution and pollution prevention planning by some of the state’s largest dischargers of water pollution. | |
| 06/26/2007 | |
| Salem--The Oregon House of Representatives voted in favor of a bill to reduce toxic pollution going into rivers statewide. The bill is a major step forward for efforts to clean up the Willamette, the Columbia, and other waterways in Oregon. | |
| 06/24/2004 | |
| Rep. Nick Rahall (D-WV), ranking Democrat on the U.S. House Resources Committee, Rep. Sam Farr, Co-Chair of the House Oceans Caucus, and 12 members of Congress today introduced legislation that would help eliminate long-standing financial conflicts of interest, unbalanced representation, and poor conservation decisions in the fisheries management system. | |
| 06/21/2005 | |
| Today’s defeat of the Nelson-Martinez-Corzine amendment to strike the Outer Continental Shelf inventory from the federal Energy Bill is a loss for everyone in America that enjoys our remaining pristine beaches and cares about the health of our marine environment. | |
| 06/14/2005 | |
| PORTLAND—On Monday, an Oregon federal judge ruled that a seafood processing facility in Warrenton must immediately halt its illegal wastewater discharges into the Skipanon River, a tributary of the Columbia. | |
| 05/19/2005 | |
| PORTLAND—In a victory for clean water, the U.S. EPA announced today that the agency is withdrawing its controversial sewage dumping policy that would have let inadequately treated sewage flow into America's lakes and rivers. | |
| 04/20/2004 | |
| WASHINGTON—The U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy (USCOP) report issued today should serve as a wake-up call to Governor Ted Kulongoski, to Congress and to the Bush administration that immediate action is needed to protect our oceans, according to the Oregon State Public Interest Research Group (OSPIRG). | |
| 03/17/2005 | |
| Representative Nick Rahall (D-WV), ranking member of the U.S. House Resources Committee, was joined by 6 bipartisan cosponsors today in introducing legislation that will enhance fisheries science and management in order to ensure the long-term sustainability of marine fish and ocean ecosystems. | |
| 02/15/2005 | |
| SALEM—Leaders in the Oregon Senate have introduced legislation that conservation groups are calling a critical step in the effort to restore water quality and salmon in the Willamette River. | |
| 01/19/2007 | |
| After over four years of fighting a losing battle in a Clean Water Act enforcement suit brought by the Oregon State Public Interest Research Group (“OSPIRGâ€) and two local residents, Pacific Seafood Group, the third largest seafood company in North America, has agreed to remedy illegal pollutant discharges at its seafood processing facility in Warrenton, Oregon. | |
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