Environmental

Legal Action Prompts Feds to Analyze Risks to Northwest’s Endangered Species During Oil Spill Cleanups

PORTLAND, Ore.—(ENEWSPF)–November 18, 2014.  In response to a notice of intentto sue from the Center for Biological Diversity and Friends of the Columbia Gorge, the U.S. Coast Guard and Environmental Protection Agency will analyze the risks that oil-spill cleanup and containment actions pose to salmon, whales, sturgeon and other endangered species in the Pacific Northwest. The analysis is needed because of the massive increase in transport of oil by rail and barge throughout the…

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