{"id":5127,"date":"2011-06-17T01:52:33","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T08:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5127"},"modified":"2011-06-17T04:37:34","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T11:37:34","slug":"oregon-leads-on-water-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/17\/oregon-leads-on-water-quality\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon Leads on Water Quality"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thirty two years ago, I was passing through Oregon and decided to stay.\u00a0 I\u2019m proud to be an Oregonian, because my representatives in the national and state legislatures are all progressive Democrats.\u00a0 We used to have a Republican Senator, but we fixed that and I helped.\u00a0 In many areas where progressives are concerned, Oregon\u00a0 leads the way.\u00a0 One example is the environment.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"17water\"Oregon’s environmental regulators on Thursday approved new health-based water quality standards, touted as the toughest in the nation, for curtailing toxic pollutants in rivers and streams<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The rules, subject to approval by the Environmental Protection Agency, are up to 10 times more stringent than current national standards<\/strong> and are designed in part to account for comparatively large amounts of fish in the diets of Oregonians, especially Native Americans.<\/p>\n

Five years in the making, the regulations would set new limits on concentrations of over 100 toxins — from pesticides to PCBs — permitted to be discharged into waterways from factories, sewage plants and other industrial facilities.<\/p>\n

Approved by the five-member Environmental Quality Commission on a 4-1 vote, the plan is aimed at improving the safety of water in streams and rivers for use in fishing, drinking and swimming\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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For the earth\u2019s sake, Oregon\u2019s standards should be adopted nationally.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thirty two years ago, I was passing through Oregon and decided to stay.\u00a0 I\u2019m proud to be an Oregonian, because my representatives in the national and state legislatures are all progressive Democrats.\u00a0 We used to have a Republican Senator, but we fixed that and I helped.\u00a0 In many areas where progressives are concerned, Oregon\u00a0 leads […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}