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The Army Corps is polluting illegally, without the Clean Water Act permits required to operate.

On Monday night the Vancouver City Council unanimously voted to extend its moratorium on new or expanded large-scale fossil fuel facilities, such as LNG or LPG train terminals.

At a critical bend in the Columbia River Estuary, a company called NEXT Renewable Fuels, Inc., is seeking to build a new, massive renewable diesel refinery.

The stories we tell about the Columbia River and the people who live and work on this river are important.

"Necessity Part II: Rails, Rivers & the Thin Green Line"

In 2014, Union Pacific proposed a major rail expansion project through Mosier from Memaloose State Park to the Hood River County line.

Improve air quality, decrease the public health impacts from exposure to local air pollution, increase community education about those impacts, and support community-based solutions. 

Photocredit: Nicole Mark

Staff Attorney Simone Anter gives a history lesson about the former nuclear site nestled along the Columbia’s banks, and shares why it is a place worth fighting for.

Dr. Maureen Walczak and Dr. Alan Mix, environmental scientists at Oregon State University, share their research on the history of climate and flows on the Columbia River—spanning 20,000 years!