Oregon Federal Judge Says Group Can Pursue Wildlands CWA Suit Against Air Force

( August 29, 2025, 11:47 AM EDT) -- PENDLETON, Ore. — A federal judge in Oregon ruled that a nonprofit dedicated to protecting the Owyhee Canyonlands showed a concrete and particularized injury-in-fact and causation to establish constitutional standing and stated a sufficient claim for relief under the Clean Water Act (CWA) but failed to establish an informational injury allowing it to sue on its own behalf in a lawsuit filed against the U.S. Air Force for allegedly polluting bodies of water in the area during training exercises at a base that encompasses hundreds of thousands of acres....