Advocacy
Oregon Rural Action
Oregon Rural Action organized door-to-door well-water testing in Morrow County that produced the evidentiary base for the class action against Amazon settled for 20.5 million dollars in March 2026. The organization operates a rural-chapter model and employs staff attorneys and community organizers.
- Location
- La Grande, OR
- Founded
- 2002
- Website
- https://oregonruralaction.org/
Oregon Rural Action’s well-water testing program gave 45,000 Morrow County residents the scientific documentation needed to bring a class action against Amazon for nitrate contamination caused by data-center cooling tower effluent, producing the first data-center contamination settlement in the United States.
Cited in
- Prineville and Boardmancrook-morrow