What’s NEXT?
Local Farmer, Columbia Riverkeeper, and 1000 Friends of Oregon Challenge Rail Yard for Proposed Diesel Refinery Port Westward, OR (July 18, 2024)—Yesterday, 1000 Friends of Oregon, Columbia Riverkeeper and mint … Read more
Fighting Fracked Gas at the Oregon Public Utility Commission
by Audrey Leonard, Staff Attorney At Columbia Riverkeeper, we have to be nimble when advocating for energy and climate justice. That’s why we’ve developed creative strategies to engage with Oregon’s … Read more
Invisibles. Permanentes. Por todas partes.
Por Lorri Epstein, Directora de Calidad del Agua Es hora de enfrentar la realidad sobre las sustancias químicas permanentes, comúnmente conocidas como químicos perfluorados (PFAS). Las PFAS son sustancias químicas … Read more
PFAS: Invisible. Forever. Everywhere.
By Lorri Epstein, Water Quality Director Time to get real about forever chemicals, commonly known as perfluorinated chemicals (PFAS). PFAS are man-made chemicals used in a wide variety of consumer … Read more
Hanford Holistic Settlement Released
Changes Raise Thousand-Year Questions June 27, 2024 By Dan Serres, Advocacy Director On May 30, the U.S. Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, and the Washington Department of Ecology (Tri-Party Agreement … Read more
Stand Up to Factory Farms
Stand up to Factory Farms Week of Action June 24, 2024By Kelly Campbell Six years ago, Columbia Riverkeeper and our partners in the Stand Up to Factory Farms Coalition scored … Read more
New Lawsuit Aims to Protect Levee and Farmland from NEXT Refinery
Challenging Army Corps’ failure to review impacts of NEXT refinery construction on Port Westward levee May 30, 2024 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New Lawsuit Aims to Protect Levee and Farmland from … Read more
Hanford’s Future Revised
Hanford Holistic Settlement Released:Changes Raise Thousand-Year Questions As Good as Glass? Not so Fast. By Dan Serres, Advocacy Director At the end of April, the U.S. Department of Energy (Energy), … Read more
What’s the Next Challenge Facing the Columbia River?
Get up to speed on the latest issues facing our communities thanks to “Locus Focus” on KBOO Radio, here’s four recent episodes interviewing our team. Important stories uncovered thanks to … Read more
The Big Problems with Small Nukes
Here are a few answers to some of the most frequently asked questions Columbia Riverkeeper gets about SMNRs. What Does Columbia Riverkeeper Support Instead Of SMNRs? By Kelly Campbell (she/her), … Read more
Bradford Island Superfund Site Update
This spring marks two years since Bradford Island and surrounding waters was listed as a Superfund site and we are still waiting for cleanup to begin. April 15, 2024 Bradford … Read more