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
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< ifii Northwest lawmakers
i mu mini about the eronomii
im(>.k I of .1 new plan released
Wednesday to save the north
ern spotted owl, say efforts
should begin to i ompensale the
region lor the antu ipated loss
ol thousands of |ohs
The i ommdtee of govern
ment si le.ntisls led In I S I or
est Servil e biologist |ui k Ward
Thomas rei omniended that hat
rests in national forests he re
dined a percent to save the
ou I from es11in tinn
Rep I,es ,\n( loin. Dl )re
said a redlli tioll ol that level
suggests .i loss of a minimum of
lo tion timber related jobs in
(fregon and Washington.
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Oregon'1- timbei (ommunities
will he absolutely devastated
said Sin Hull I’atkwood K
(ire
Hep Huh Smith K ()re said
hunitin needs me ignored in the
report w huh vv.is dire* ted
solely at the biologii .il st.itus n!
the ovv I
I nless w e find .1 balant e
between protei ling the owl and
protei ting jobs, we are going to
put the Northwest out ot busi
ness. ’’ he said
"Are we going to destroy
people to save owls '1 That Is the
(|uest ion
Others said the proposed
strategy to save the owl has
some merits, hut mat need to
he rev ised to lessen the pain on
the region's e< onotnv
"The plan they have devel
oped probably makes sense, hut
it is going to have a very seri
oils imp.ii t said Kep Norm
I In hs 1)Wash "It's a suhstan
tial loss of the timber base and
that's going to he felt out
there
Si'ii Drill k Ail.mis. 1) Wash
said tli•! isiims regarding the
management ill lnri'sls "musl
hr li.ist'il upon si irntitii e\ i
ill'll! f
"it thosi' ili'i isions pose
priililfins Ini our society, thru
we as members ot (aingress
must u ork w itli the si.ilr- in
minimi/r (hr impai Is on mil
i omnium!ies ' hr said
Srii Murk Ilatlirhl K ()ir
said llir potential iinpai t ol tin
report was t.u greater fur Wash
rngton tinin (begun hri uisr III
pi n rut ot thr (begun l.inil pro
posed tin owl conservation
.ur,is tilri'.ulv is priitri led
It ,inti w lien thr spotted mi I
is llstrti .is ,m endangered m
threatened spri ies and I hr
lirvr It will hr .Hid it tills
plan is utioptrd it w ill hr an
unprecedented appl 11 at ion ot
tlir 1 inlalu>ririi Spri ies Ait
with tlr\ aslat l ug ri ononiii and
soi nil rttri ts hr said
Rep Dt'inn Smith. 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."