State of Oregon tells feds to put the brakes on LNG The state of Oregon has joined a chorus of legal challenges to the federal approval of the Bradwood Landing liquefied natural gas project. On Monday, Gov. Ted Kulongoski asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for a rehearing of the Bradwood decision, promising to take the feds to court if his environmental and procedural concerns aren't addressed. Kulongoski says FERC overlooked environmental impacts of the Bradwood project and violated several federal laws when it conditionally approved the $650 million LNG terminal and pipeline last month. Located 20 miles east of Astoria on the Columbia River, Bradwood Landing is the first LNG proposal on the West Coast to receive FERC approval. But since FERC's 4-1 approval Sept. 18, several tribal, conservation and citizen groups, the National Marine Fisheries Service and the Washington Department of Ecology have filed protests insisting that FERC's ruling on the Bradwood project was premature and illegal and pressuring the federal energy board to reconsider....