Environment, social justice groups withdraw support for governor’s key groundwater protection bill

Environment, social justice groups withdraw support for governor’s key groundwater protection bill

Groups that helped champion one of Gov. Tina Kotek’s key groundwater protection bills this session are withdrawing their support and asking the Legislature to let it die for now, following a last-minute amendment they say effectively neutralizes the intent of…

Environment, social justice groups withdraw support for governor’s key groundwater protection bill • Oregon Capital Chronicle

Gov. Tina Kotek on May 3, 2023 at the home of Ana Maria Rodriguez, a Boardman resident and Oregon Rural Action organizer, whose well water has nearly four times the safe drinking water limit for nitrate. Kotek was visiting with residents in Boardman, who are concerned that progress on the nitrate pollution in the Lower Umatilla Basin has been slow. (Alex Baumhardt/Oregon Capital Chronicle)Groups that helped champion one of Gov. Tina Kotek’s key …

Last-minute change saps impact of groundwater bill, groups say

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