Water Issues
PEAC works towards cleaning up and cooling down the world's waters on a regional and national scale by tackling the insufficient regulation and implementation of laws. Essential to the survival of life, elemental in the maintenance of stable ecosystems, and itself a habitat for aquatic species, water quality is a cornerstone environment issue, and PEAC is committed to its protection and improvement.
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The Ninth Circuit affirmed PEAC’s arguments on behalf of Northwest Environmental Advocates, The Ocean Conservancy, and Sanfrancisco Baykeeper, upholding a district court order that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) repeal its 1973 ballast water exemption under the Clean Water Act. -
PEAC won a critical victory in the Ninth Circuit this July on behalf of Northwest Environmental Advocates, The Ocean Conservancy, and San Francisco Baykeeper, forcing theEPA to regulate the discharge of ballast water under the Clean Water Act. -
PEAC filed suit against Grabhorn, Inc., which operates one of the last unlined landfills in the Portland Metro region, for violations of the Clean Water Act. -
PEAC reached satisfactory settlement in a case to protect the flow of the nation’s 10th largest river, impacting 16,000 total stream miles and 12,000 square miles of watershed. -
PEAC achieved a critical interim victory in its case for Northwest Environmental Advocates (NWEA) challenging federal agencies’ erroneous approval of Oregon water temperature and inter-gravel dissolved oxygen standards lethal to critically endangered salmon, steelhead and bull trout. -
PEAC won a crucial case targeting Oregon state agencies’s failure to enforce compliance by the Blue Heron Paper Company with state water quality standards for thirty years. -
Sept 20 - PEAC filed suit impacting the very flow of the nation’s 10th largest river, with potential impact on 16,000 total stream miles and 12,000 square miles of watershed. -
Listen to expert oral arguments that the EPA should, for the first-time, regulate ballast water discharges – a leading cause of bioinvasion and ecosystem disruption.
Contact Us
The Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center is located in Wood Hall.
Email peac@lclark.edu
Voice (503) 768-6600
Fax (503) 768-6642
Executive Director
Karen Smith Geon
Clinical Director
Dan Rohlf
Address
Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center at Lewis and Clark Law School, 10015 SW Terwilliger Blvd, Portland, OR 97219
