In a unanimous decision, the Washington State Supreme Court has declined to review Clark County’s appeal of the WA State Court of Appeals stormwater ruling. In September 2012, Washington State Court of Appeals upheld the Pollution Control Hearings Board ruling that Clark County’s weak stormwater plan allowed too much polluted runoff and violates both State [...]
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Federal Judge Lifts Stay on Clark County Stormwater Case
U.S. District Judge Ronald B. Leighton has lifted a stay on a federal lawsuit against Clark County regarding their stormwater management plan. The injunction was issued against Clark County in December 2011, ordering it to follow the state’s default stormwater rules while its stormwater plan was under review by the state Court of Appeals. The [...]
EPA Rights Complaint Process Changes Fail To Ease Petitioner Concerns (reprinted w/permission from Inside Washington Publishers)
This article originally appeared in Inside EPA Weekly Report on February 22, 2013. It is reprinted here with permission of the publisher, Inside Washington Publishers. Copyright 2013. No further distribution is permitted. Click here to view article (pdf format): EPA Rights Complaint Process Changes Fail To Ease Petitioner Concerns
Communities Letter RE Sportsmen’s Act of 2012
This letter, signed by 35 environmental activists in 16 states and territories, was sent to Senators Tester, Reid, and Boxer: Excerpt: Dear Senator: It has come to our attention that S. 3525, the Sportsmen’s Act of 2012 – scheduled for a U.S. Senate floor vote immediately after Thanksgiving 2012, contains language that appears to exempt certain munitions [...]
OPB Announces Results of Its EarthFix Poll: NW Residents Rank Stormwater as Greatest Source of Water Pollution
OPB has published the results of their environmental news segment, EarthFix, water pollution survey. Results show respondents ranked stormwater runoff as the greatest source of water pollution. From OPB: A new poll by Earthfix suggests growing awareness in the Northwest of some of the problems associated with nonpoint source pollution- the diffuse chemicals, bacteria, and [...]
WA Court of Appeals Rules County’s Plan to Manage Polluted Runoff Illegal
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 26, 2012 Contacts: Jan Hasselman, Earthjustice Dvija Michael Bertish, Rosemere Neighborhood Association Brett VandenHeuvel, Columbia Riverkeeper Mark Riskedahl, Northwest Environmental Defense Center WA Court of Appeals Rules County’s Plan to Manage Polluted Runoff Illegal Taxpayer subsidy, fish-killing loopholes scrapped by judges as violations to clean water laws Tacoma, WA – In [...]
EPA Roundly Criticized Over Draft Supplement To Civil Rights Plan (reprinted with permission from Inside Washington Publishers)
This article originally appeared in Inside EPA Weekly Report on July 20, 2012. It is reprinted here with permission of the publisher, Inside Washington Publishers. Copyright 2012. No further distribution is permitted. Click here to view article (pdf format): EPA_Roundly_Criticized_Over_Draft_Supplement_To_Civil_Rights_Plan_IEPA_07-12 ******* To view Rosemere Neighborhood Association comment letter on Title VI Supplement please go here: [...]
RNA Comments on EPA Draft Title VI Supplement
On July 17, 2012, Rosemere Neighborhood Association submitted a public comments letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson on EPA’s Draft Supplement: Advancing Environmental Justice Through Title VI of the Civil Rights Act The public comments letter in part includes: Despite Rosemere’s lawsuit and the subsequent national debate of the failures of [...]
Media Advisory: State Appeals Court Hears Arguments by County to Circumvent Clean Water Act
Media Advisory for July 2, 2012 CONTACTS: Jan Hasselman, Earthjustice, (206) 343-7340, ext. 1025 (Available July 2) Janette Brimmer, Earthjustice, (206) 343-7340, ext. 1029 Dvija Michael Bertish, Rosemere Neighborhood Association, (360) 281-4747 Brett VandenHeuvel, Columbia Riverkeeper, (503) 348-2436 State Appeals Court Hears Arguments by County to Circumvent Clean Water Act Protections of Fish and Water [...]
PRESS RELEASE: New EPA Study shows contamination at Camp Bonneville has migrated
************ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE *************** NEW EPA STUDY SHOWS CONTAMINATION AT CAMP BONNEVILLE HAS MIGRATED Contact: Dvija Michael Bertish, Rosemere Neighborhood Association 360-281-4747 Original Release: May 31, 2012 Update: June 8, 2012 EPA Region X (Seattle Office) has published a May 2012 Technical Data Report entitled “Camp Bonneville Expanded Site Inspection, Vancouver WA” (Technical Document [...]
