Oregon

· E&E News: "9th Circuit declines to rehear logging-road runoff case"

May 17, 2011 -- A federal appeals court said today it won't reconsider its decision last year that requires Clean Water Act permitting for stormwater runoff on logging roads.

· Seattle Times: "Court: reaffirms that muddy water is pollution"

May 17, 2011 -- A federal appeals court has reaffirmed that muddy water running off logging roads after rainstorms is pollution that requires a special permit from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

· Law360: "9th Circuit won't rehear logging runoff permit challenge"

May 17, 2011 -- The Ninth Circuit has refused to reconsider its holding that runoff from Oregon State Forest logging roads was subject to permitting requirements under the Clean Water Act.

· Santa Cruz Good Times: "New ruling tightens logging regulations"

November 3, 2010 -- This August, WFLC won a landmark sedimentation case in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. According to the ruling, logging companies must now seek point source permits for the water discharged from roadways traversed during timber harvests.

· The Oregonian: "Oregon forestry department appeals court ruling that logging road runoff is a form of pollution"

October 6, 2010 -- The Oregon Department of Forestry is appealing a court ruling that runoff from logging roads is a form of pollution that requires a permit under the Clean Water Act.

· The Oregonian: "Settlement requires stricter regulation of Oregon coast logging"

September 28, 2010 -- Private timber owners and loggers in much of Oregon's Coast Range will face more stringent environmental regulations to protect streams under a court settlement issued Tuesday.

· Tillamook Headlight Herald: "Judge: Logging roads pollute"

August 24, 2010 -- Local timber interests are bracing for the potential impact of a court ruling that dirt, rock and sand runoff from logging roads is a form of pollution requiring a permit under the Clean Water Act.

· Seattle Times: "Appeals court: mud from logging roads is pollution"

August 17, 2010 -- A federal appeals court Tuesday decided that mud washing off logging roads is pollution and ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to write regulations to reduce the amount that reaches salmon streams.

· OPB: "Logging Road Runoff Decision Could Have Big Implications in NW"

August 17, 2010 -- Today, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that rainwater channeled by logging roads into rivers and streams is pollution and can be regulated under the Clean Water Act.

· The Oregonian: "Oregon held to account for failing to protect coastal waterways"

January 15, 2010 -- Oregon doesn't do enough to protect its coastal waterways from the harmful effects of logging, and that could end up costing the state millions in withheld federal dollars.

· The World: "Timber plan divides Oregon North Coast residents"

January 30, 2010 -- A proposal to cut more timber on the Clatsop and Tillamook state forests has divided North Coast residents.

· Statesman Journal: "Effect of logging incident on city's drinking water spotlights forest rules"

January 28, 2007 -- No laws were violated, but logging near headwaters of creek forced Falls City to close its drinking-water intake.

· The Oregonian: "Suit to attack logging roads' dirty water"

June 22, 2006 -- An environmental group alleges polluted runoff is streaming into the Trask, Kilchis rivers. A Portland legal group known for making polluters clean up their acts is taking aim at logging roads in the Coast Range that it says funnel chocolate-brown water into prime salmon rivers with every heavy rain.

· The Oregonian: "Oregon Senator Ron Wyden under fire from environmental groups for bills on logging roads, industrial pollution"

 

· The Oregonian: "Salmon habitat and water quality"

August 5, 2011 -- Every Oregonian has a stake in stream protection

· Clean Water Act Under Attack

August 24, 2011 – Environmental groups sponsor an ad urging members of Congress to stop their attack on our clean water.

· Seattle Times: "Follow the law to protect fish and water supplies"

Nov. 2, 2011 -- A controversial federal appeals court decision shines a light on an exemption to clean-water regulations that can compromise healthy fish runs and water supplies.