( May 7, 2026, 8:06 AM EDT) -- PENDLETON, Ore. — A lawsuit filed in Oregon federal court by a nonprofit dedicated to protecting the Owyhee Canyonlands alleging the U.S. Air Force violated the Clean Water Act (CWA) by polluting bodies of water in the area during training exercises at a base that encompasses hundreds of thousands of acres was dismissed without prejudice following a presidential memorandum exempting the agency’s jet fighter training operations in Idaho, Oregon and Nevada from water pollution regulations....