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It's Your Oregon: Andrea Hunter
I had joined OEC several years before, and had been a home-based volunteer. Don Waggoner, OEC’s president, had a large volume of correspondence relating to his evaluation of Oregon’s Bottle Bill. I had an electric type-writer, and volunteered. On the strength of this, Larry took a chance and hired me. I think he hoped my “people skills” would make up for my typing deficiencies.
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April
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Clean Car Standards Go National
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The Clean Car Standards Oregon adopted in 2005-06 finally went national with adoption of a federal clean cars rule by the U.S. EPA.
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Forced Into Our Cars
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Not infrequently at OEC, we hear the statement, “You environmentalists are trying to force me out of my car.” Those who express this opinion seem to have forgotten the flip side: we’ve unintentionally built our communities in such a way that people can’t get where they need to go without a car.
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Earth Day: A Day to Remember
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The ubiquitous “they” say that there are certain dates that stick in your mind. The Space Shuttle and 911 of course, but the very first Earth Day was one of those dates for me, and I remember it well.
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The True Costs of Petroleum and Coal Dependence
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This month our nation experienced two tragedies that serve as sad and stark reminders of the human and ecological toll of our fossil-fuel dependence.
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Toxic Chemicals and Cancer
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The President’s Cancer Panel asserts that public health officials have “grossly underestimated” the links between cancer and toxic chemicals.
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