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The whale doesn't win: how the Navy used fear tactics to gut concerns about marine mammal health

After years as a loner adrift in his own world, Ken (Balcomb) had finally found a peer group and a mission,” writes Joshua Horwitz in his new book. Balcomb was the first to do in-depth studies of the various pods of orca whales that live in Washington’s P ...

25 Feb 2015 - Megan Wildhood
Underwater: Oregon's agency responsible for monitoring waterway polluters is the most backlogged in the country

Oregon has the stiffest water pollution regulations of any state in the U.S. Sounds impressive, right? Think again. Oregon is dead last nationwide when it comes to keeping wastewater permits current with state regulations. According to the EPA’s most rece ...

24 Feb 2015 - Emily Green
Who is watching the river? The largest sources of water pollution in Oregon aren’t monitored well, if at all.

The Clean Water Act of 1972 made it a lot harder for industrial facilities to dump large amounts of toxic materials into U.S. waterways with the institution of a permitting process with limits on toxic releases – it put a stop to many of the activities th ...

23 Oct 2014 - Emily Green