Environmental
Jul. 17, 2013
EPA and logging industry make for odd bedfellows before US high court
The Supreme Court's recent decision regarding stormwater discharges from a logging operation involved a rare alliance between the EPA and the logging industry. By Jad T. Davis
In March, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an opinion in Decker, et al. v. Northwest Environmental Defense Center, 133 S.Ct. 1326 (2013), that was in favor of strange bedfellows - the logging industry and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Several logging companies contracted with the state of Oregon to harvest timber from the Tillamook State Forest in the Pacific Coast Range near Portland, Ore. The logging industry uses tempo...
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