Cascadia Times

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LETTER FROM THE EDITORS: ABOUT OUR INVESTIGATION OF THE WORLD’S LARGEST TEMPERATE RAINFORESTHappy Holidays! It has been a year almost since Cascadia Times held its Turning-The-Lights-Back-On celebration at Mercy Corps HQ in Portland. We would like to update you on the progress of our work. For the last year, we’ve been quietly working on a book about the coastal rainforest, its loss of biodiversity and value to the climate.Originally, we we’re going to put all the material in the magazine, but we think a book will be the best way to do justice to the importance and urgency of this material.We’ve already published several articles based on our reporting for the book inCascadia Times(of course!) and several national and international outlets, includingSierra Magazine, Earth Island Journal (hereandhere),Pacific Standard, Mongabay (hereandhere), Truthout (hereandhere),Common Dreams, and dozens of other outlets around the world. We estimate our stories reached millions of readers.We are on course to finish the book by mid-2020. If you would like to support the work on this book, please make a donation to our non-profit research fund,Cascadia Media Lab.In addition, if you have any concerns about what’s happening to the rainforest we’d like to hear them. Send us an email atpaul@times.org.In our research weinterviewedand traveled with amazing community members, indigenous leaders, organizations, scientists, and activists. We are very excited to amplify these voices in our book and share their information. Our reporting has taken us to forests up and down the coastal rainforest from the redwoods in Northern California to Southeast Alaska’s Tongass National Forest and many points in between.We illustrate these stories with our own photography, such as this aerial of a cargo vessel loading up with logs on Prince of Wales Island in the southern Tongass. At exactly the same time Jessica took this photo, the owner of the local sawmill was testifying in a court proceeding about an alleged log shortage. The next day, the vessel -- fully loaded with raw logs -- headed for China.May 6, 2018 Part 1Blood under the TracksPeople in The Dalles, Ore.,say their air is being poisoned by a company that uses creosote to make railroad ties. Some say they are crazy, but a bevy of court documents and medical studies back them up.Last week, a federal health agency issued a skeptical report casting official doubt on their claims, saying “no apparent public health hazard existed.” But some say its report was marred by outdated and missing data. Plus the agency failed to talk to any of the victims.Over the last decade, the courts have ordered the creosote industry to pay billions of dollars for personal injuries and environmental damage, including the biggest bankruptcy settlement in EPA history. But in a simple twist of fate,The Dalles got nothing out of these deals.Why was The Dalles left out? And why are its residents still being poisoned?May 14, 2018 Part 2Trade secretsMeet the polluter in The Dalles, Ore., who thinks its toxic air emissions data are none of your business.May 30, 2018 Part 3WRONG NUMBERProtecting the environment is a game of numbers.The state’s new Cleaner Air Oregon program will soon decide such things as how much toxic air pollution each industry should be allowed to emit. It will also decide how much toxic pollution people can inhale harming their health.Unfortunately, Cleaner Air Oregon is about to dial-in a number that protects industry more than people. This number has been skewed to provide more protection for white people than African-Americans.July 27, 2018 Part 4DIOXIN IN THE DALLESFour Indian nations in the Columbia Basin-- each with treaty rights to Columbia River fish -- are calling on the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality to launch a “comprehensive investigation” into dioxin contamination at a Union Pacific-owned Superfund site in The Dalles.In 1991, DEQ scientists found dioxin, industry’s most dangerous pollutant, in the soil at the heavily contaminated site, where railroad ties were treated with creosote and other chemicals. The waste also included high levels of pentachlorophenol, a pesticide laced with dioxin, as well as arsenic and naphthalene.CASCADIA TIMES ARCHIVES

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