A nine part series from Cascadia Times. These articles were made possible by the generous support of our readers. Click to use Paypal to make a donation to our 501c3 nonprofit research fund to support Cascadia Times’ investigative journalism today! To reserve your copy of the print edition, please email Cascadia Times: paul@times.org Part 1: …
This is part 9 of Cascadia Times’ continuing series on the Columbia River Crossing and air pollution. Read the series introduction, and articles on induced traffic, lagging traffic counts, the cancer in Portland’s air, an environmental injustice, ESCO and industrial air pollution, global warming and the CRC, a look to the future, and the media’s …
This is part 8 of Cascadia Times’ continuing series on the Columbia River Crossing and air pollution. Read the series introduction, and articles on induced traffic, lagging traffic counts, the cancer in Portland’s air, an environmental injustice, ESCO and industrial air pollution, global warming and the CRC, a look to the future, and the media’s …
This is part 7 of Cascadia Times’ continuing series on the Columbia River Crossing and air pollution. Read the series introduction, and articles on induced traffic, lagging traffic counts, the cancer in Portland’s air, an environmental injustice, ESCO and industrial air pollution, global warming and the CRC, a look to the future, and the media’s …
Click here to download a map of Portland neighborhoods and how their air pollution ranks nationally. This is part 6 of Cascadia Times’ continuing series on the Columbia River Crossing and air pollution. Read the series introduction, and articles on induced traffic, lagging traffic counts, the cancer in Portland’s air, an environmental injustice, ESCO and …
This is part 5 of Cascadia Times’ continuing series on the Columbia River Crossing and air pollution. Read the series introduction, and articles on induced traffic, lagging traffic counts, the cancer in Portland’s air, an environmental injustice, ESCO and industrial air pollution, global warming and the CRC, a look to the future, and the media’s …
This is part 4 of Cascadia Times’ continuing series on the Columbia River Crossing and air pollution. Read the series introduction, and articles on induced traffic, lagging traffic counts, the cancer in Portland’s air, an environmental injustice, ESCO and industrial air pollution, global warming and the CRC, a look to the future, and the media’s …
This is part 3 of Cascadia Times’ continuing series on the Columbia River Crossing and air pollution. Read the series introduction, and articles on induced traffic, lagging traffic counts, the cancer in Portland’s air, an environmental injustice, ESCO and industrial air pollution, global warming and the CRC, a look to the future, and the media’s …
When Sierra Pacific Industries (SPI) opened a new lumber mill across the road from Steve Wycoff’s metal shop in Aberdeen, Washington, Steve hoped the new jobs might help turn the local economy around. But instead SPI turned Steve’s cozy metal shop, where he’d worked for 15 years, nestled under 100-foot tall fir trees, into a …
As a continuation of my work on air toxics in Portland, I have been investigating the Columbia River Crossing for Cascadia Times. My main concern is that environmental justice and air pollution issues are getting rolled by the project. The story is centered on the toxic airsheds of North, Northeast and Northwest Portland, near the …
The people who are planning the proposed I-5 replacement bridge over the Columbia River assume that air pollution will decrease on a regional scale in the future. They also assume that these reductions will come as a result of tighter new EPA regulations, a cleaner reformulation of gasoline, and cleaner vehicles, such as hybrids and …