Northwest Environmental Defense Center (NEDC)
NEDC was established by a group of professors, law students and attorney alumni at Lewis & Clark Law School in 1969. NEDC is an independent nonprofit organization working to protect the environment and natural resources of the Pacific Northwest.
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NEWS
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Regularly updating water pollution permits spurs innovation and progress. Thanks to the legal team at the Earthrise Law Center and to NEDC board member Karl Anuta for years of hard work on this matter, and to Governor Kate Brown for including a major commitment in her newly-released budget to reduce Oregon’s water quality permit backlog. -
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Check out NEDC’s Summer Newsletter to read more about our recent work and other news -
Willamette Week journalists interview NEDC Executive Director Mark Riskedahl about this preventable catastrophe -
We are partnering with Native Fish Society, WildEarth Guardians and Advocates for the West in a new lawsuit to press federal agencies to do more to protect salmon and steelhead