In arguments before U.S. District Court Judge Michael H. Simon, defending parties in a two-year court case that alleges water quality violations by Portland General Electric due to operations at its dams on the lower Deschutes River continued to argue that the case should be dismissed.

U.S. District Court Judge Michael W. Mosman dismissed a law suit filed 15 years ago that claimed grazing in Oregon’s Malheur National Forest imperils resident bull trout.

U.S. District Court Judge Michael H. Simon this week lifted the requirement that NOAA Fisheries must complete its next iteration of a salmon/steelhead biological opinion for the federal Columbia River power system by December 31, 2018.

Portland General Electric moved for the second time in two years in federal court to dismiss a lawsuit in which the Deschutes River Alliance is charging the company with over a thousand clean water act violations resulting from its operations at the Pelton Round Butte Complex of Dams on the Deschutes River.

Parties to a U.S. District Court of Oregon injunction that orders higher spring spill for juvenile salmonids at Columbia/Snake River dams got their day in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals this week, March 20, in San Francisco.

After nearly two years of challenges to its lawsuit, a conservation group is getting its chance to argue the merits of its case in U.S. District Court of Oregon. The court case charges Portland General Electric with water quality violations due to its operations at the Pelton/Round Butte complex of dams on Oregon’s Deschutes River.

The search is officially underway for a new director to lead the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.