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New York Times Report: 500,000 violations of Clean Water Act in past 5 years

Posted Mon, 09/14/2009 - 08:48 by JimRobison

The New York Times has compiled a comprehensive collection of data on facilities permitted under the Clean Water Act, violations of the law, and enforcement actions.  The data shows that enforcement is often lax, but Oregon fairs better than many other states.

The most common violators in Oregon, under the Clean Water Act, are municipal waste water treatment plants, including Portland's facility on Columbia Boulevard.

You can browse the data at http://projects.nytimes.com/toxic-waters.

 

Portland Harbor! How clean is clean enough?

Posted Fri, 07/10/2009 - 19:42 by Robin Plance

As the Portland Harbor cleanup process moves forward, and the LWG and EPA wrestle through the RI/FS we must discuss what level of clean we want for our Harbor.
Do we wish to see more McCormick & Baxter type of sites, or do we step up and look for alternative treatment technologies to give a cleaner river?
And HEY, what about that upland source control?

The forgotten ships

Posted Thu, 06/04/2009 - 11:46 by CAGAdmin

An interesting story in the Portland Tribune about the war time history of ship building in the Portland area.  See http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=124406121209594300

Low levels of BPA raise breast cancer risk in rat offspring.

Posted Mon, 03/02/2009 - 15:07 by CAGAdmin

Jenkins, S, N Raghuraman, I Eltoum, M Carpenter, J Russo and C Lamartiniere. 2009. Oral exposure to bisphenol A increases dimethylbenzanthracene- induced mammary cancer in rats. Environmental Health Perspectives doi:10.1289/ehp.11751.