Pesticides

Oregon’s Senator Merkley and Rep. Blumenauer are introducing legislation to reduce pollution in the Columbia River. At a cost of about $40 million a year, the bill creates a team at the EPA office in Portland that will work with states, tribes, local governments and other federal agencies across the Columbia River Basin. It gets a...
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The death of Florence Kolbeck was so strange, that it captured headlines around the state. In July of 2005, Kolbeck and her husband Fred returned to their house after it had been sprayed for bugs by a pesticide company.  Thinking they had waited enough time after the spraying, the Kolbecks were coughing and on the...
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