View from the Helm: The problem of agricultural pollution
Nationwide, the pollution that has the biggest impact on rivers and streams is agricultural pollution.
Tag: Agricultural Pollution
Ecology’s draft CAFO water quality permit sacrifices public health, drinking water, shellfish beds
Faced with the opportunity to protect Washingtonians from industrial agriculture pollution, Ecology instead chose to ignore the recommendations of its own scientists and bowed to “big ag,” writing a convoluted, two-tiered draft permit that fails to protect our most fundamental natural resource–clean water.
U.S. Senate: Muzzling public education on water pollution?
“Our rivers are in distress,” said Trish Rolfe, director of the Center for Environmental Law & Policy. “We are disappointed and troubled that two Senators from the Midwest would try to stop efforts to educate Washington state residents about water pollution from industrial agriculture and the simple steps that agriculture could take that would dramatically improve water quality in our rivers.”
The Samish River: a Story of Salmon, Oysters and Cows
The Samish is ‘River Number Twelve’ as part of Soundkeeper’s Twelve Rivers in Twelve Months program, launched in January 2013 to increase our understanding of the river systems that feed Puget Sound.
Washington Supreme Court rules in favor of Ecology’s authority
Today, the Washington Supreme Court ruled 8-1 in support of a decision of the Washington State Department of Ecology (Ecology), defeating a challenge by rancher Joseph Lemire in a case that challenged the state’s authority to regulate the water quality impacts of cattle and other nonpoint source pollution.