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Has the government sprayed poisons on your route home today?
When you drive home today, will you be putting your health at risk?
Blog post by Lisa Arkin, OTA Exec. Director - Oct. 20, 2011
IN THE NEWS:
47 Schoolchildren Poisoned in Ohio Offers Evidence That Kids Are Silently Poisoned Every Day – Oct. 29, 2011 (SafeLawns.org Blog)
A Blow for Biomass Burning? (Eugene Weekly, Oct. 27, 2011)
Seneca’s biomass plant fails first pollution test
An environmental agency fines the company $9,856, but says the emissions pose no threat to human health - by Diane Dietz, The Eugene Register-Guard
Report calls for reduction in chemical spraying on Oregon highways
(NPR report; mp3 audio available)
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NEW!
OTA publishes a new report that provides Oregonians with an assessment of the environmental impact of pesticides on five state highways.
Read, "Assessing Environmental Impact Quotients for
Pesticide Use on State Highways in Lane County" by OTA Exec. Director, Lisa Arkin
MORE about the report's release...
The R-G Editors chime in with their support! |
KEZI-TV report - Aug. 31, 2011
NEW:
OTA Executive Director Lisa Arkin recently toured the Laurelwood Golf Course with neighbors and collected photographic evidence of excessive use of pesticides. Shocked by the magnitude of the pesticide dead zones, she created the report, “Non-Compliance with the INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT POLICIES OF EUGENE, OREGON” and, in collaboration with many neighbors, gave presentations to Eugene City staff.
Local media coverage of pesticide overuse at Laurelwood golf course:
* Eugene Weekly news brief
* KEZI-TV news report
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Several small drainages lead from the Laurelwood
golf course to Amazon Creek.
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Oregon Toxics Alliance's
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Eugene Weekly had this to say about us:
"OTA works its rear end off to protect people, especially but not only kids and low-income and rural folks, from harmful pollutants."
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"OTA has successfully linked environmental research with advocacy and applied a social justice approach to environmental protection at the state and local levels...."
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Hear Sandra Steingraber interviewed on Jefferson Public Radio's "Jefferson Exchange" show on April 22, 2011 (mp3 file)
Topic: Raising Children in the midst of an Environmental Crisis (she talks about her latest book, Raising Elijah and the work of Oregon Toxics Alliance)
Special thanks to: The Jefferson Exchange |
In the news...
Executive Director Lisa Arkin speaks about asthma and children on local TV news show
See the interview clip from KVAL-TV below:
MORE INFORMATION:
If you live in Lane County and have a complaint about the quality of air in your neighborhood, please contact LRAPA (Lane Regional Protection Agency), you can use this online form: http://www.lrapa.org/online_complaint_form.php or call their office in Springfield: (541) 736-1056
To read more about OTA's partner in the West Eugene Industrial Corridor Environmental Health Project, Centro LatinoAmericano, click here.
If you are interested in joining our West Eugene Community Action Group to be part of the solution in addressing the concerns related to air toxics, please join our FaceBook link or e-mail us at info@oregontoxics.org . Meetings are once a month, and topics discussed relate to environmental health concerns. We look forward to your participation!
Read Oregon Toxics Alliance's latest report on the alarming rate of asthma (especially among children) in West Eugene neighborhoods.
Becoming Carcinogen Abolitionists
Commentary & review of "Living Downstream" film by Eugene-based blogger, Abby Quillen
Special thanks to our wonderful community of supporters, both old and new, who came to see Dr. Steingraber speak at the University of Oregon on April 28th!
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Sandra Steingraber took time to sign copies of her books after her speaking engagement at the Robinson Theater - April 28. |
Mind Games: How toxic chemicals are impairing children’s ability to learn
by Sandra Steingraber
Published in the March/April 2011 issue of Orion magazine
The West Eugene Industrial Corridor
Environmental Health Project |
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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...
We can't afford to ignore the science on bioenergy
Oregonian - December 08, 2010
Guest column by Franz A. Matzner, Lisa Arkin [OTA Exec. Director] and Jeanne Roy
OTA's Outreach Coordinator, Alison Guzman, speaks about human rights and the environment. These are snippets from an interview filmed for a Eugene, OR Human Right Commission video.
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