Tag: Food & Water Watch
Groups Meet with EPA to Discuss Emergency Action in Boardman
By Alex Baumhardt
More than three years ago, eight national and Oregon-based environmental nonprofits petitioned the federal Environmental Protection Agency to do something about nitrate-contaminated...
Groups Blast DEQ Proposal on Factory Farm Gas Refinery
Last week, seven organizations in the Stand Up to Factory Farms coalition submitted comments blasting an Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) proposal to reduce certain...
Groups Want Oregon to Regulate Air Pollution From Large Dairies
By Alex Baumhardt
Two dozen environmental, farming and public health groups are asking the state to regulate air pollution from large dairies.
In an Aug. 17...