CELP is Washington’s Water Watchdog 


CELP brings its water law expertise and passion to help citizen groups and tribes throughout Washington to protect their rivers, streams and aquifers.   From what we learn from people working on the front lines, river by river, aquifer by aquifer, we advocate for science based, sustainable water management in the legislature, in the courts and with government agencies.   Kayaking Hanford Reach, Columbia River.

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CELP Published in UW Law Review

CELP staff attorney Rachael Paschal Osborn recently published an article on the Columbia River Treaty and Climate Change in the University of Washington Law School’s Washington Journal of Environmental Law and Policy.   Read the full article here.



http://digital.law.washington.edu/dspace-law/bitstream/handle/1773.1/1148/2WJELP075.pdf?sequence=1shapeimage_1_link_0


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CELP begins the 2013 legislative session fighting for water.  

CELP will be the leading environmental advocate for wise water use in Olympia during the 2013 legislative session.  The recent switch of two Democratic senators to the Republicans means that control of the Senate is with Republicans, leaving great uncertainty even as to who will be chairing committees on water and the environment.  CELP is already hard at work working with allies on early legislation.  We will keep you posted by email—watch for them.
CELP’s 2011 Annual Report
We are pleased to publish our 2011 Annual Report.  
Read online or download the PDF here.




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CELP and other river advocates sue to keep water in the Similkameen River and Coyote Falls.   


Okanogan PUD wants to begin generating power from the long-dormant 100 year old Enloe dam, reducing the river, a major tributary to the Columbia, into a mere trickle.  Regrettably, the Department of Ecology certified this ill-devised plan, violating its duty to protect aesthetic flows and recreation for the public.  Trial is set for mid-April 2013 before the Pollution Control Hearings Board.