Victor's Secret (What does the DEQ know and when do they know it?)

Oregon Magazine ^ | July 30, 2003 | Larry Leonard

[WaterDragon]

Air Quality Alert! (True or False?)

Monday, July 28, 2003 -- You don't want to walk around with a Hershey bar in your pocket, today. It's summer inversion time and day by day working toward one hundred degrees.

Do you recognize this logo? It belongs to the Department of Environmental Quality. If you click on it, you will go to their Oregon webpage, where you will see, among other things, links to news releases like the one we have reprinted in full, here. Take note of the following line from the release, below: " ... urgent pollution prevention message ..."

For release: July 28, 2003 DEQ Issues Clean Air Action Day Smog Advisory for Monday, July 28 and Tuesday, July 29 in Portland-Vancouver Area

NOTE to local news media: Please help communicate this urgent pollution prevention message to Portland-Vancouver area residents. It is possible that the region may exceed the federal health standard for ozone (smog) today and tomorrow...(SNIP)

...DEQ, along with the media clones who serve the same interests, have been meddling in the lives of Oregonians for years, with no valid reason for doing it. And, not one of them has ever bothered to see if what they were doing had any basis in fact, at all. In the case of the government agency, you are forced to pay them to do it, while the mainstream media misinforms you for free....(SNIP)

Click HERE For Complete Article.

[Atlas Sneezed]

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