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Willamette Superfund cleanup expected to proceed under Trump

The EPA has approved the plan, but questions linger about whether the new administration might defund enforcement After months of public comment and many more years of study, the Environmental Protection Agency has finally approved its plan for cleaning u ...

2 Feb 2017 - Stephen Quirke
Tribal leaders take their case on Willamette River cleanup to D.C.

Yakama Nation argues EPA plan violates an 1855 treaty After 16 years of study funded by polluting industries, the public comment period for the Willamette River cleanup is scheduled to end Sept. 6, 2016, with some officials hoping for a finalized plan by ...

2 Aug 2016 - Stephen Quirke
Watered-down promises for the Willamette River cleanup

COMMENTARY | EPA extends comment period on the Superfund cleanup plan for the Willamette River, which drew protests for doing too little Early this month the EPA released its draft plan to remove toxic contamination from the bottom of the Willamette River ...

30 Jun 2016 - Stephen Quirke
A sewer runs through it: The Willamette River in the 21st century

COMMENTARY | Relearning our own history will be the key to unlearning our mistakes The Willamette waterfront is many things to many people – a place to sleep, a food source, a wildlife habitat, a place to swim and for others, a place to dump industrial wa ...

9 Jun 2016 - Stephen Quirke
EPA, DEQ promise much, deliver little protection for river

COMMENTARY | River industry, regulators favor a do-nothing method for Willamette cleanup In a March meeting hosted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to offer an update on the imminent Proposed Plan for the Willamette River Superfund, the word “c ...

13 Apr 2016 - Barbara Quinn
Update: Fort McClellan veterans soldier on

VA acknowledges veterans’ concerns, but continues to deny claims of toxic exposure Thousands of veterans who trained at Fort McClellan say contamination at the military base caused them to become seriously ill. For more than a decade they’ve demanded the ...

27 Mar 2015 - Emily Green
Safe to swim? What the experts have to say about the risks of taking a dip in the Willamette River

Since the completion of the Big Pipe project in 2011, which stopped Portland’s sewage from spilling into the Willamette River during rainstorms, there’s been a movement led by Human Access Project to change the public’s perception about swimming in the ri ...

27 Aug 2014 - Emily Green