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Pesticides in the News
04.20.08 Pesticide Suspected in Geese Deaths (Register Guard)
04.14.08 Virginia Town Bans 'Toxic Trespass' (PANNA)
04.10.08 No Justification - An Open Letter to Giustina (Eugene Weekly)
04.08.08 Judge Halts Herbicide Spraying (CAT)
03.27.08 Pesticides Death Brings Calls for Reform (Register Guard)
03.11.08 Pesticides Worry Neighbors (Register Guard)
02.28.08 Let's Keep the Lid on Pesticides (Register Guard)
02.28.08 Small Town, Big Clearcut (Eugene Weekly)
01.15.08 Lane County Considering Herbicide Use (Register Guard)
12.06.07 Concerns Prompt Lane County to Re-evaluate Herbicides (Register Guard)
12.06.07 In Herbicide Fight, the Deck is Stacked (Register Guard)
11.30.07 Herbicide Proposal Worries Residents (Register Guard)
10.18.07 Senate Forms Work Group on Pesticides and Health (Media Release)
10.09.07 Breast Cancer Linked to DDT (Science Daily)
05.17.07 Pesticide Drift (Eugene Weekly)
04.27.07 No-Spray Pilot Project (Newport News-Times)
04.11.07 Pesticide Buffer Bill Brings Out Crowds (Register Guard)
04.06.07 Keep Pesticides Away From Schools (Register Guard Op-Ed)
02.09.07 Spraying Herbicide on Timber Land Has Foul Effects (Register Guard)
09.21.06 School Sprays (Eugene Weekly)
07.15.06 EWEB Examines Herbicides in Watershed (Register Guard)
03.16.06 Pitchfork Rebellion (Eugene Weekly)
Field Burning in the News
02/22/08 Politicians Ponder Smoke-Black Summer Skies (Register Guard)
11/15/07 Seeking Ban to Field Burning (KVAL)
11/14/07 Field Burning Ban Debate Will Continue (Daily Emerald)
11/08/07 Field Burning Town Hall (Eugene Weekly)
11/08/07 Bend, Sisters Ponder Backyard Burn Bans (KTVZ)
10/08/07 Public Pays Field Burning Price (Register Guard)
09/16/07 Not Another Field Burning Study (Oregonian)
09/07/07 Field Burning Study Questioned (Register Guard)
08/30/07 State Missed Chance on Field Burning (Register Guard)
08/23/07 No Ban on Burn (Eugene Weekly)
08/18/07 Field Burning Faces Constraints (Register Guard)
08/16/07 Study Tracks No-Burn Methods (Register Guard)
08/17/07 EQC Fails to Act (Register Guard)
08/15/07 An Idaho Summer without Smoke (Register Guard)
08/08/07 Agency won't Discuss Field Burning this Month (Register Guard)
08/03/07 Sparks Fly Over Grass Seed Article (Capital Press)
07/19/07 Field Burning Under Fire (KLCC)
07/19/07 Burning Smokes Out Citizens (Eugene Weekly)
07/15/07 County Could Sue to Force Ban (Register Guard)
07/11/07 Field Burn Smokes Out Valley (Register Guard)
06/28/07 Coughing Blood (Eugene Weekly)
06/23/07 County Takes Field Burning Case to State (Register Guard)
06/20/07 County Weighs Field Burn Suit (Register Guard)
05/03/07 Field Burning Under Fire (Register Guard)
04/14/07 Health Panel OKs Field Burning Ban (Register Guard)
04/07/07 Speakers Clash on Health Ills of Field Fires (Register Guard)
03/22/07 County Commissioners Back Field Burning Ban (Register Guard)
01.28.07 It's Time to End Field Burning (Register Guard)
Benzene Reduction in the News
03.12.08 Benzene Concerns South Lane School District (Cottage Grove Sentinel)
01.17.08 Idle Threat (Eugene Weekly)
11.08.07 Hidden Danger (KGW)
09.25.07 Save Gas, Clean the Air (Register Guard)
09.22.07 Change in County Pump Protocol (Register Guard)
09.19.07 Lane Commissioners Pass Anti-Benzene Policy (Register Guard)
09.14.07 Health Advocate Wins Award to Improve Air Quality
02.09.07 EPA Bows to Northwest Senators' Concerns on Benzene Levels
11.22.06 Special Report: Pumping Poison - Gas Station Workers and Toxic Fumes (KGW)
07.25.06 Going the Extra Mile to Cut Truck Vapors (Register Guard)
01.13.06 OpEd: Parents Should Know What Their Children Are Breathing (Register Guard)
Eugene Railyard in the News
11.02.07 Neighbors Question Calling Rail Pollution Harmless (Register Guard)
10.17.07 Testing Puts Rail Yard Fumes in Sharper Focus (Register Guard)
08.15.07 Neighbors Need City Advocate (Register Guard)
08.13.07 Threat of More Cancer Cases (Register Guard)
08.13.07 Drop in Property Value Worries Owners (Register Guard)
08.13.07 Neighbor Viewpoints Differ (Register Guard)
08.12.07 Switching Stories (Register Guard)
08.12.07 Information Sidetracked (Register Guard)
07.19.07 Trainsong's Pollution Purgatory (Eugene Weekly)
07.13.07 Railroad Presents Clean-up Plan (Register Guard)
07.12.07 Railroad to Respond to Pollution (Register Guard)
07.12.07 Union Pacific Railroad Responds (KVAL)
06.21.07 Testing for Train Toxics (Eugene Weekly)
06.13.07 State to Test More Homes for Toxic Gases (Register Guard)
06.07.07 Toxic Trainyards (Eugene Weekly)
05.30.07 Railyard Fumes Termed 'Public Hazard' (Register Guard)
05.29.07 Railyard Contamination Poses Risks (KVAL)
05.17.07 Pollution, Cancers Get a Second Look (Register Guard)
09.14.06 Toxic Hoods (Eugene Weekly)
09.07.06 Townhall on Toxics (Eugene Weekly)
09.05.06 Study Shows Solvents Damaged Workers' Brains (Courier Journal)
08.12.06 People at Risk (KEZI)
02.11.03 Neighbors Meet to Hear About Toxic Groundwater (Daily Emerald)
02.06.03 Railyard Forum (Eugene Weekly)
Toxics In the News
04.29.08 Candidates Concerned About Baxter Plant's Fumes (Register Guard)
04.29.08 West Eugene Neighborhs Call for Emissions Notification (KLCC)
04.26.08 Candidates Concerned About Emissions After Industry Fire (OTA Press Release)
11.12.07 Oregonians Test Positive for Toxic Chemicals (OEC Press Release)
11.07.07 A Chance to Clear the Air (Mail Tribune)
10.31.07 DEQ Should Protect Oregonians, Not Corporate Polluters (Letter to the Editor)
11.04.07 Off Target in the War on Cancer (Washington Post)
09.18.07 We Can Reduce Toxic Exposure (Register Guard)