Water Quality Cases
01/03/2012
Advocates for the West represents Idaho Conservation League (ICL) in this lawsuit against EPA for failing to timely approve or disapprove important water quality standards in Idaho.
In 2006, Idaho adopted a new fish consumption rate, which estimates the amount of fish people catch and eat from...
08/16/2010
Advocates for the West is working with concerned individuals and conservation groups to oppose plans by Exxon Mobil, ConocoPhillips, and other Big Oil companies to create a high-and-wide industrial corridor for massive equipment to be transported from overseas shippers up Idaho's Clearwater...
07/07/2008
On behalf of Idaho Conservation League, we sent EPA a notice-of-intent letter in July 2008, alleging that it was violating Section 303(c) of the Federal Clean Water Act in not requiring the State of Idaho to adopt sufficiently protective water quality standards for arsenic and other toxic...
05/10/2004
We won an injunction in 2004 preventing the Clearwater National Forest from proceeding with two adjoining timber sales in the Lolo Creek watershed of central Idaho, to protect habitat of imperilled fish -- including salmon, steelhead, and bull trout.
Even though the Forest Service...
03/03/2003
Representing Idaho Conservation League, we successfully used the public trust doctrine to block the proposed Auger Falls dams on the mid-Snake River near the city of Twin Falls. After federal agencies had issued permits for the dam, the Idaho State Land Board voted -- after a public...
05/01/1997
Representing a broad coalition of national, state and local conservation groups, we brought this case in 1997 to stop Forest Service plans to log old growth forests in the Clearwater region of central Idaho -- including the headwaters of the Lochsa and North Fork Clearwater rivers. The...
