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Oregon Legislature debates future of Sauvie Island family-owned, CEI Hub bills
House Bill 5143 – Farm Shop Bill: It is intended to protect farms with an entertainment dimension such as Topaz Farm on Sauvie Island. Advocates maintain it will preserve hayrides, corn mazes, field trips, classes, and seasonal harvest events etc., and remove restrictive income limits that make it hard for farms to diversify and stay…
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EPA requires air monitoring at 9 CEI Hub facilities
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued information requests under the Clean Air Act to nine facilities in the Critical Energy Infrastructure Hub (CEI) in NW Portland. Each facility will be required to buy and install air sampling equipment to monitor concentrations of air contaminants benzene, ethylbenzene, toluene, xylenes and hexane at the fenceline…
