In the News: Grant to help spread word of dangers of air pollution | The EPA awards two agencies $25,000 to conduct surveys and workshops in the west Eugene area -- Emily Gillespie of The Register-Guard

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The West Eugene Industrial Corridor Environmental Health Project is a partnership between Centro LatinoAmericano, a community-based Latino human services organization, and Oregon Toxics Alliance, an environmental health advocacy organization, to engage an underserved and vulnerable community in environmental health actions. Neighborhoods in the West Eugene Industrial Corridor have higher percentages of Latino, disabled and poverty level residents than all other areas in Eugene. The purpose of the project is to enhance the community’s understanding of environmental pollutants, improve the community’s ability to communicate their environmental health concerns, and mobilize community and business partnerships to help minority and low-income neighborhoods reduce their exposure to toxics. MORE...

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• New JOB OPENINGS associated with EPA grant

OTA Fundraising Garage Sale

WHEN: 2 days only: Friday, September 10 and Saturday, September 11, 2010
TIMES: 8 am to 11 am
WHERE: 2121 Jefferson St., Eugene, Oregon
WHAT: A chance to buy fun and interesting items you cannot live without and support OTA's important campaigns for environmental health!

We need your donations to make this a success! Please call Jan at 541-343-4404 first to arrange to drop off potential sale items for this fundraiser...She will be available Tuesday, September 7th through Thursday, September 9th to determine if what you have to donate are items ready for sale. Please no calls before Tuesday.

See our Safe Public Places page for more on this statewide campaign...

In the news...

Register-Guard GUEST VIEWPOINT: Burning biomass to generate energy is a dirty business by Lisa Arkin

Eugene Weekly: BIO MESS - Don’t judge clean energy by its cover
By Camilla Mortensen, Eugene Weekly

Eugene Register-Guard: To Spray or Not: Neighbors Ask Weyerhauser to hand weed a clear cut by Susan Palmer

Eugene Register-Guard: Project aims to cut chemicals - The state will mow along most of Highway 36 to see if it can keep vegetation down with less herbicide by Susan Palmer

OTA thanks the dozens of Oregon residents who participated with us in the Community Conversations on Toxic Chemicals. Your comments were heard by our federal government. Link to the web site To see a summary of the comments from Oregon and from all over the country, and to learn about next steps in this conversation, go to http://www.neha.org/nationalconversation/index.html Read the Results of Local Meetings

OTA in the news...

Way Beyond ‘Chatter’ (Eugene Weekly Op-Ed)
Oregon Toxics Alliance responds to claims of BPA safety
by Lisa Arkin, Oregon Toxics Alliance

May 7 , 2010 KGW-TV News (Portland) did a story about the air quality issues related to the Seneca biomass energy generation plant in Eugene. See the clip on KGW's web site

April 20 , 2010 KEZI-TV News (Eugene) did a story on our newest Healthy Air Oregon business partner, Northwest Community Credit Union. See the clip on KEZI's web site

Pesticides in Our Schools

Oregon Toxics Alliance's report, WARNING! Hazards to Children: Pesticides in Our Schools, uncovers an on-going pattern of pesticide exposure to school children in classrooms, on playgrounds, on ball fields, and at bus stops. Forty-three cases have been reported in the past ten years. Fourteen cases were serious enough to result in evacuation, require medical attention, and/or result in a citation from the state. Read More...