Diesel Pollution, a Threat to Public Health in Portland

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Fri, 01/23/2015 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Diesel pollution makes Portland's air toxic. We'll talk about the risks and change needed!
This Friday on Bread and Roses we talk about the real impact of diesel pollution in our city of Portland. A petition created last year by Neighbors For Clean Air, a local non-profit working for air quality, declared “One of the most serious current threats to public health from air pollution comes from the burning of diesel oil… The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that diesel exhaust in Oregon causes some 468 premature deaths a year – which means more Oregonians die from diesel exhaust than from murder and drunken driving combined.”

We'll be joined in the studio by John Krallman, staff attorney at Neighbors for Clean Air and adjunct professor at Lewis & Clark Law School, Matt Davis, Program and Policy Development Specialist for the Multnomah County Health Department, Environmental Health Section, and by Mary Postlethwaite, Community Health Worker and activist.

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