Posts Categorized: Health Benchmarks

Portland Air Toxics Solution Advisory Committee Mtg #8 recap

Posted by & filed under air toxics, environmental justice, Environmental Quality Commission, Health Benchmarks, PATSAC, Toxic Hot Spots.

As the PATSAC process rounds the corner to its finish line stretch, the work of the committee is definitely getting more interesting. At the last two meetings, the quality of DEQ materials has been impressive, including the detailed PATS 2017 Pollutant Modeling Summary presented at the January 25th meeting, and from this last meeting, the… Read more »

How bad is the air in Portland?

Posted by & filed under air toxics; DEQ; City of Portland, Environmental Quality Commission, ERSI, Health Benchmarks, land use planning.

I have been on a journey of discovery into Portland air quality since March 2009. That was when I ran across a national study that showed my daughters’ elementary school to be in the top 2% of schools across the nation with the worst air due to proximity to toxic industrial emissions (USA Today: The Smokestack Effect)…. Read more »