Federal nitrate pollution lawsuit against Eastern Oregon farms moves forward

Federal nitrate pollution lawsuit against Eastern Oregon farms moves forward

A federal lawsuit accusing agricultural businesses of polluting groundwater in the Lower Umatilla Basin is moving forward and changing venues. In an 80-page recommendation released Monday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew Hallman mostly favored a group of Eastern Oregon residents, who filed the lawsuit a year ago. Hallman referred the case from Pendleton to a U.S. District Court in Portland. The state first recognized the public health threats of hi…

Environmentalists had sued Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia for high nitrate levels of the Ems and got right.