Latest from The Spokesman-Review

• Editorial: Treatment plant delay won’t help environment

  June 12, 2011 in Opinion on Page B8 Spokane County’s $173 million sewage treatment plant is ready to be tested. Conceivably it could be operating by year’s end and making an immediate reduction in the amount of PCBs …

• Court rules on logging roads, orders EPA regulation

  August 18, 2010 in City on Page A7 GRANTS PASS, Ore. – A federal appeals court Tuesday decided that mud washing off logging roads is pollution and ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to write regulations to reduce the … 1

• County to fight river lawsuit

    July 22, 2010 in City on Page A1 Spokane County plans to oppose a federal lawsuit that could impair its ability to open a new sewage treatment plant in January 2012. Commissioners moved to defend the county’s interests … 6

• City’s lawsuit blasts EPA river cleanup plan

  July 21, 2010 in City, Idaho Post Falls and the Hayden Area Regional Sewer Board are suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in federal court over a plan to clean pollution in the Spokane River. 3

• Center alleges freeway project is violating Clean Water Act

    April 1, 2010 in City The Center for Justice’s Spokane Riverkeeper project is alleging that the state Department of Transportation has violated the Clean Water Act during construction of the North Spokane freeway.