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Protecting Oregon's Environment
As Attorney General, I intend to help make Oregon the nationwide leader in environmental protection. Unfortunately, we have a lot of work to do. Oregon has some of the most innovative environmental protection laws in the country. Even still we are facing serious environmental challenges. Every major river in Oregon fails water quality standards for at least one pollutant link and Multnomah County ranks in the top 1% of counties nationwide for cancer-related threats due to air pollution link.How did we get this way? The answer is simple. Oregon made serious polluting a crime back in the 1990s, but those criminal laws are rarely enforced. Yet we just established our first environmental crimes enforcement unit. Holding polluters accountable for the damage they cause to our water, land and air will more than pay for itself by reducing the costs of our civil compliance program and reducing healthcare, safety and cleanup costs.
I would like to receive updates about the Oregon Department of Justice’s efforts to fight environmental crime.
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