Northwest Environmental Advocates

Established in 1969, Northwest Environmental Advocates works through advocacy and education to use federal environmental laws to protect and restore water quality and habitat in the Northwest and nationwide.

NWEA uses a mix of approaches — including negotiation, litigation, education, community organizing, and advocacy — to obtain the best outcome for people and the environment:

* filing lawsuits to obtain program implementation and remedy egregious threats
* advocating for funding, enforcement, and environmental results
* working on advisory committees to build support for implementation
* education and community organizing to ensure an informed and involved public

Some of NWEA’s accomplishments include:

* NWEA’s litigation has forced Oregon and Washington to commit to cleaning up and restoring 1,500 degraded waterbodies in the next 10 and 15 years respectively.
* NWEA made environmental quality of the Columbia River a major regional issue, leading to the creation of the $2.4 million Bi-State Lower Columbia River Water Quality Study.
* NWEA’s efforts have closed two nuclear power plants and forced plans for the removal of seven billion gallons of raw sewage from Portland waters and the clean-up of the Centralia Coal Plant, the largest source of sulphur dioxide in the west.

NEA
PO Box 12187
Portland, OR 97212
503-295-0490

https://www.northwestenvironmentaladvocates.org
Contact page: https://www.northwestenvironmentaladvocates.org/newblog/contact-us