RESTON, Virginia, Sept. 27 -- The American Society of Civil Engineers issued the following news: Robert Clark Ewing, a structural engineer in demand during America's rapidly growing postwar years, and an expert on foundations who shored up famed Pulitzer Prize-winning author Eudora Welty's house, has died at 99. Ewing, P.E., F.ASCE, "Bob" to his friends, was a dedicated engineer whose trail of works took him from Seattle to the Willamette Valley in Oregon through Memphis, Tennessee, and down t  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, Sept. 24 -- The Center for Biological Diversity issued the following news release: * * * - Early Migrating Salmon Threatened by Logging, Hatchery Fish, Dams, Pollution * * * The Native Fish Society, Center for Biological Diversity and Umpqua Watersheds today filed a petition to protect Oregon coast spring-run chinook salmon under the federal Endangered Species Act. The safeguards would apply to salmon from below the Columbia River to Cape Blanco. Spring chinook, which are   more

PORTLAND, Oregon, Sept. 25 -- The Center for Food Safety issued the following news release: * * * - Tillamook Buys Majority of its Milk from One of the Largest Factory Farms in the Country * * * Today, Center for Food Safety (CFS) launched a petition urging citizens to commit to boycotting Tillamook's dairy products until the dairy giant commits to sourcing the milk in its products from farms which use the sustainable, humane practices that the company's advertising suggests. The food safet  more

IRVING, Texas, Sept. 26 -- The National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame issued the following news release: * * * - Oregon State and the National Football Foundation will jointly honor Coach Erickson, a 2019 College Football Hall of Fame inductee, when the Beavers host Stanford. * * * Oregon State University and The National Football Foundation (NFF) & College Hall of Fame announced today that they will jointly honor 2019 electee Coach Dennis Erickson with an NFF Hall of Fame On-  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, Sept. 20 -- Lambda Legal issued the following news release: Lambda Legal has urged the Oregon Court of Appeals once again to affirm its 2017 opinion upholding a 2015 ruling by the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI) that the owners of a Portland-area bakery violated the state's nondiscrimination statutes when they refused to bake a wedding cake for a lesbian couple because doing so violated the owners' religious beliefs. The U.S. Supreme Court vacated the Court of App  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, Sept. 28 -- The Mercy Corps issued the following statement by Dafna Rand, vice president for policy and research, in response to the Trump administration's decision to reduce refugee admissions to 18,000: "Mercy Corps is deeply concerned by the Administration's decision to cut refugee admissions to 18,000 -- a 50 percent reduction -- for the coming year. This decision undermines U.S.leadership globally, as well as our responsibility to protect the world's most vulnerable peopl  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, Sept. 25 -- The Mercy Corps issued the following news release: Mercy Corps is suspending operations in Borno and Yobe States, Nigeria, following the closure of four of our field offices by the Nigerian military. We have not yet received an official reason from the Nigerian authorities for the closure and we are seeking to work with them to resolve this as soon as possible. Mercy Corps believes in the work we have done in northeast Nigeria, and we hope to quickly resume our p  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, Sept. 26 -- The National Psoriasis Foundation issued the following news release: * * * - Safe Step Act is a significant victory for the millions of Americans living with psoriatic disease * * * The National Psoriasis Foundation, NPF, applauds Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Senator Doug Jones (D-AL), Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Senator Margaret Hassan (D-NH), Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), and Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) for introducing the Safe Step Act. This legislation   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 -- The Ocean Conservancy issued the following statement by CEO Janis Searles Jones in response to the introduction of a House Climate Resolution by Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Oregon: "Today, Representative Suzanne Bonamici introduced a Resolution to the House of Representatives calling for our government to take action against climate change in response to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate.   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 -- ProEnglish, an advocate of English language, issued the following news: ProEnglish participated in the recent Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) "Hold Their Feet to the Fire" Radio Row in Washington, and engaged media from all across the nation about the urgent need for official English legislation to adopt English as the official language at all levels of government. ProEnglish Executive Director Stephen Guschov and Director of Government Relations Dan C  more

EUGENE, Oregon, Sept. 25 -- The Western Environmental Law Center issued the following news release: Nearly three decades after first suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over its failure to clean up Washington's polluted waters, environmental groups returned to federal court to enforce the Clean Water Act. In the groups' request to reopen (https://westernlaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2019.09.24-Motion-to-Reopen-WA-TMDL.pdf) a lawsuit initially filed in 1991 and settled in   more

EUGENE, Oregon, Sept. 26 -- The Western Environmental Law Center issued the following news release: Declaring a key Clean Water Act program in Washington state broken, clean water advocates asked a federal court--in a second lawsuit this week--to order the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to fix a program to restore polluted rivers, streams, and Puget Sound. Northwest Environmental Advocates (NWEA) filed the second lawsuit to challenge EPA's failure to address the Washington Departmen  more