2024-06-18T08:38:23-04:00 2023-12-31 990EZ 2023-01-01 237421080 NORTHWEST ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES % Nina Bell NORT 5032950490 PO BOX 12187 PORTLAND OR 972120187 Eugene Rosolie Board Director Treasurer 2024-06-18 Eugene Rosolie XXX-XX-XXXX 2023 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z X www.northwestenvironmentaladvocates.org X X 72566 X 70781 1686 0 0 0 99 72566 45295 1600 932 1537 5948 55312 17254 235796 253050 X 210848 229959 27063 25549 237911 255508 2115 2458 235796 253050 X Work through advocacy and education to use federal environmental laws such as the Clean Water Act to protect and restore water quality and habit in the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Puget Sound Program: NWEA focuses on restoring the water quality of Puget Sound and its tributaries by reducing pollution from sources permitted under the Clean Water Act to discharge from pipes and from polluted runoff from nonpoint sources. NWEA represents the public interest in protecting clean water and protected species by petitioning state and federal agencies providing public comments on agency proposed actions conducting public outreach and bringing litigation under federal and state laws to encourage federal and state agencies to take their responsibilities seriously. Our work benefits the interests of approximately 4 million people in the Puget Sound area including Treaty Tribes. 0 15500 Columbia River Program: NWEA's work to protect and restore water quality in the Columbia River Basin focuses on improving the water quality programs in Oregon Washington and Idaho through public participation and litigation. Over 13 million people live in Oregon Washington and Idaho combined. NWEA continues to work to assure cold-water refuges for salmon and steelhead migrating through hot waters in the Columbia River through federal litigation. Commercial and recreational fishing businesses and treaty tribes rely on migrating salmon and the private and public investments in protecting these threatened and endangered fish is undermined by high water temperatures. 0 12590 Regional Clean Water Program. NWEA uses state and federal laws in Oregon Washington and Idaho to reduce water pollution. The goal of our work is to protect public health and aquatic life including but not limited to threatened and endangered species such as salmon orcas and amphibians. Because so many aspects of the Clean Water Act are ignored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the states we seek to improve the implementation of this law. Generally activities of this program include the following: 1 submitting public comments to agencies on regulatory proposals; 2 assisting members of the public who are seeking information on how to protect water quality and habitat; 3 obtaining and analyzing documents from agencies through the Freedom of Information Act FOIA and state public records laws; 4 bringing enforcement cases against agencies and polluters; and 5 general outreach and education through website newsletter emails etc. NWEA seeks to ensure that states 1 have protective water quality standards; 2 properly identify waters that violate those standards and develop the required clean-up plans for those waters; 3 take regulatory actions to reduce pollution from dischargers and nonpoint sources such as logging and farming; 4 protect threatened and endangered species in the actions they take. In 2023 we continued our litigation to obtain clean-up plans for waters in Oregon with unsafe levels of pollution including the Deschutes River. In Washington obtained a court order in ensure the state has water quality standards for a number of pollutants. Also in Washington we signed an interim settlement to evaluate why the state's clean-up program has failed. In Idaho we obtained federal restrictions on mercury pollution and petitioned EPA to carry out its commitments under the Endangered Species Act to reduce toxic pollution. NWEA continued its focus on water pollution in the Rogue River where a federal judge found the City of Medford liable for violating the Clean Water Act and NWEA's lawsuit forced Oregon to issue a permit to Medford requiring significant reductions in nutrient pollution discharged to the Rogue. NWEA's experts say these proposed reductions are too little too late so NWEA has appealed the Medford permit to state court. The program served the residents of Oregon Washington Idaho. 0 13920 National Clean Water Program. In its national efforts to reduce toxics in waterways NWEA is focused on regulating the discharge of currently unregulated toxic chemicals. We petitioned the EPA to update the Clean Water Act's Toxic Pollutant List to which no pollutants have been added for 47 years despite EPA's legal obligation to add chemicals to the list from time to time. The Toxic Pollutant List drives the law's pollution control requirements to curtail toxics in the nation's waters. As the result of EPA's failure to update the list most of the thousands of chemicals used in today's manufacturing offices and homes that end up in lakes rivers and streams are not regulated. 0 8510 50520 Nina Bell Executive Director Board Member 40 36000 5850 600 Chris Noble Board Chair 1 0 0 0 Eugene Rosolie Board Treasurer 20 0 0 0 false false false false false 0 false false false OR Eugene Rosolie 2866 NE Dunckley Portland OR 97212 5038807200 false false false false false false false false NONE NONE X 103318 70387 130267 53466 72566 430004 21051 0 16000 22500 0 59551 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 124369 70387 146267 75966 72566 489555 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 489555 183 567 244 201 1686 2881 0 0 0 0 0 0 183 567 244 201 1686 2881 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 124552 70954 146511 76167 74252 492436 0.9941 0.9973 0.0059 0.0027 X Part III Line 12 Refund RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Part I, line 8 | Other Revenues:, Amount:| Refund, $99| Part I, line 16 | Other Expenses:, Amount:| Fundraising, $323| Travel, $59| Office Supplies, $49| Software, $1703| Internet website etc, $2765| Administration, $844| Workers Comp SAIF, $205| Part II, line 24 | Explanation:, BOYAmount:, EOYAmount:| 0ffice furniture equipment legal and expert retainer security deposit undeposited funds, $27063, $25549| Part II, line 26 | Explanation:, BOYAmount:, EOYAmount:| credit card Q4 payroll tax, $2115, $2458|