Regional_ Study on air pollution opens eyes I’OKTl AND. Or.-. (AO) Or.-gon - IM S largest . hemical users reported 12 million pounds ol lo-sit releases in 1 ORB including 20 rnillinn pounds of .iii pollution. according to .« n-poit issued Wednesday by tin- Oregon State Hublit Interest Research Orotip The studs ot h.'i chemicals found little change from the 11 million pounds reported released during 1U87. OSPIKCs rescan li was based on industry filings under the federal Community Right to Know Art. which reijuires companies that mamifar lute or use large quantities of any of .125 chemicals to disclose the amount released into the environment or transported off site as wastes The releases reported in I'lHH included 20 million pounds of air pollution "The sad fact is that virtually none of this industrial an pollution is even regulated under tin- current Clean Air Act. which rovers only seven of more than 200 known air toxics " said Joel Ario. executive dins.tor of OSPIKC. lie said the Clean Air Act reforms passed by the U S Senate on Tuesday would improve the situation hut don't go far enough l'ln* most glaring problem is th.it tin Senate liill for uses on pollution control, when we should be looking moth more to pollution prevention strategies " Ario said OSI’IRC saiil toxii releases were reported in ll i ounlies and 55 t ities Releases e\i eeded t million pounds in fixe cities St Helens. Portland. White City. Mi Mmnville and Clalskanie. Columbia County had the highest amount 01 chemicals released, with 9.8 million pounds, followed by Multnomah. 5 2 million pounds: Jackson. t H million pounds. Vamhill, 2 5 million pounds; Linn. 2 1 million pounds, and Washington. 2 million pounds Most of the 85 chemicals are linked to health threats. OSP1RG said Cancer has been linked to chemicals reported in 4 million pounds of releases and reproductive problems to those reported in l't million pounds, the group said The two industries reporting the most re leases were paper and associated products, with 1 t million pounds of the total, and met als with 5 million pounds. Protection of owl will cost jobs in Northwest B\ Si ott Sonner \smi( iuted Press U \SIII\i,! 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K t)rr i.ailed thr rn ommendations "a riant pink slip tor thousands ot (>iegon timber workers and tllrir families It s a slap in the t.ui' to thr vtTV people wliosr hard work and family values limit (Jregon Adams said earlier \\ nines ila\ that the l' S Forest Serve r has reneged on its promise to put environmental protei turn nl old growth forests on equal looting with timber harvest goals I he senator s<iid the compro imsf he helped write last sear as <i temporary solution to the timber supply crisis "raised a false hope that we could sus tain high timber sale levels and protect old growth "We now understand that is not possible." he said "We now realize that the level is too high and has been too high. " "We asked the agent \ (For est Serve e) to tell us what we could harvest while retaining the ecological v alues Since last summer we have learned that llie harvest level is not consis tent with the maintenance of those values." Adams said. "The protection of signili t ant old growth areas has not been [ml on equal footing with the timber target .is the legisla tion is intended. The Forest Servile has not emphasized this goal as it had committed."