Deskbook
The ENR Section updates the OSB’s Environmental and Natural Resources Deskbook. With over 40 chapters of detailed information, the Deskbook summarizes state and federal regulations, statutes, and caselaw applicable to environmental and natural resource issues in Oregon. It also contains many practice tips and links to relevant websites.
The ENR Deskbook is available online through the OSB’s member pages, and hard copies may be purchased through the OSB website.
Section Newsletters
- E-Outlook – a short bulletin distributed approximately four times per year that typically contains an article on breaking judicial, statutory, and regulatory developments; and
- Case Notes – a periodical summary of recent case law addressing natural resource and environmental issues.
E-Outlooks and Case Notes are sent directly to ENR members by electronic mail, and are additionally archived below.
2023 Newsletters
Lindsay Thane of Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt analyzes the Supreme Court’s Sackett v. EPA decision and the resulting revisions to the Waters of the U.S. rule.
Nolan Smith of the Carollo Law Group provides an analysis of the O&C Act cases.
A summary of and comment on recent cases of interest to ENR practitioners.
A summary of recent cases of interest to ENR practitioners.
2022 Newsletters–
Ralph Bloemers discusses the County of Linn v. State of Oregon litigation following the Oregon Supreme Court declining to hear the Counties’ appeal.
A summary of recent cases of interest to ENR practitioners.
Anne Idsal Austin, Shelby L. Dyl, and Sheila McCafferty Harvey of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP analyze the Supreme Court’s recent opinion in West Virginia v. EPA; Andrea Wortzel, Elizabeth McCormick, Morgan Gerard, and Viktoriia De Las Casas of Troutman Pepper discuss recent changes to Endangered Species Act regulations.
A summary of recent cases of interest to ENR practitioners.
Mike Eliason of the Oregon Forest & Industries Council discusses Oregon’s 2022 Legislative Session.
2021 Newsletters–
A summary of recent cases of interest to ENR practitioners.
Mike Freese of Romain Freese, LLC discusses Oregon’s 2021 Legislative Long Session.
2020 Newsletters–
Eric Christensen, William Enoch, David Weber & Gus Winkes of Beveridge & Diamond analyze the Oregon Supreme Court’s recent climate change decision; Priscilla Hampton, Christina Bonanni & Marc Bruner of Perkins Coie detail EPA’s new guidance document database; and Gus Winkes & Olivia Parish of Beveridge & Diamond provide an update on Oregon’s updated ecological risk assessment guidance.
A summary of recent cases of interest to ENR practitioners.
Thomas Griffin & Elizabeth Howard of Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt discuss the WOTUS Rule; Kathy Robb of Blue Access LLC analyzes the Supreme Court’s County of Maui v. Hawai’i Wildlife Fund decision; and a team from Troutman Pepper examines EPA’s overhaul of Section 401 of the Clean Water Act.
A summary of recent cases of interest to ENR practitioners.
A summary of recent cases of interest to ENR practitioners.
2019 Newsletters
A summary of recent cases of interest to ENR practitioners.
Michael Freese of The Romain Group provides a summary of the 2019 Oregon Legislative Session and a list of enacted environmental, natural resources, and energy-related bills from the session.
A summary of recent cases of interest to ENR practitioners.
A summary of recent cases of interest to ENR practitioners.
Mac Lacy of Oregon Natural Desert Association examines the conservation, ecological, and legal hurdles that stand in the way of saving Greater sage-grouse in the West, including how federal and state agencies, and the courts, address the threats to this bird’s unique adaptation to the sagebrush landscape in which it lives.
2018 Newsletters
A summary of recent cases of interest to ENR practitioners.
A summary of recent cases of interest to ENR practitioners.
Lawson Fite of American Forest Resource Council examines debate over the extent of executive power to reduce national monuments. Mac Lacy of Oregon Natural Desert Association examines the conservation, ecological, and legal hurdles that stand in the way of saving Greater sage-grouse in the West, including how federal and state agencies, and the courts, address the threats to this bird’s unique adaptation to the sagebrush landscape in which it lives.
Case Notes – May 2018
A summary of recent cases of interest to ENR practitioners.
This issue provides a list of environmental, natural resources, and energy related bills from the 2018 Oregon Legislative Short Session.
Douglas MacDougal of Marten Law PLLC analyzes the U.S. Court of Federal Claims’ September 2017 decision regarding water rights in the Klamath River Basin. The case involved plaintiffs who owned water rights and brought takings claims in the wake of the Bureau of Reclamation’s shut‐off of water in the Klamath basin in 2001.
A summary of recent cases of interest to ENR practitioners.
Marina Cassio of Marten Law PLLC analyzes the current landscape of climate change litigation by examining various legal theories and Juliana v. United States (a small group of young people and a climate scientist representing future generations sue the federal government for violating their asserted constitutional rights to a stable climate system).
Case Notes – October 2017
A summary of recent cases of interest to ENR practitioners.
Meline MacCurdy of Marten Law summarizes the Eastern District of Washington ruling in City of Spokane v. Monsanto Co. in which Monsanto alleged the City’s wastewater discharges give rise to liability under CERCLA, the Clean Water Act, and state tort-law theories (negligence, unjust enrichment, contribution, and equitable indemnity).
E-Outlook – May 2017
Older Newsletters are archived at the State Bar’s website: