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Intel strikes deal with Oregon environmental groups on air quality
Intel pledged Thursday to adopt a broad regime of air quality monitoring and public reporting of atmospheric pollutants, settling with environmental groups that had threatened to sue over the company’s failure to disclose fluoride emissions at its Washington County computer chip factories. State regulators and the company said fluoride emissions were within safe levels, but […]
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Sweet Home: Fluoride under fire as council takes up issue
The City Council will discuss whether to continue fluoridating Sweet Home water during its regular meeting on May 27. The Public Works Committee met on April 15 to discuss the question after the practice was challenged by a citizen at a council meeting earlier this year. Full article by subscription Print PDF
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Intel will pay for emissions oversight
Intel will pay a $143,000 civil penalty and agree to other terms in an agreement signed April 23 with the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality. The mutual agreement and order between DEQ and Intel comes after the semiconductor manufacturing company’s failure to report fluoride emissions; failure to obtain a permit to emit fluorides; and for […]
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How Intel’s $143,000 fluoride fine stacks up against DEQ’s largest penalties
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality’s $143,000 fine to Intel for a fluoride reporting mistake is the third highest penalty the agency has issued for an air quality violation since 1998. Across all DEQ departments, Intel’s fine ranks as the 20th largest during that time frame, according to a DEQ spreadsheet. Intel’s fine came after […]
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Intel’s fluoride error: What the $143,000 DEQ fine means for D1X construction and emissions
Intel will have to obtain a permit for construction already underway at its multibillion-dollar D1X factory in Hillsboro. That was perhaps the most confusing takeaway from DEQ’s announcement Thursday that Intel will pay $143,000 for failing to disclose its fluoride emissions. Since last fall, when it first surfaced that Intel had been emitting fluoride without […]
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Intel will pay $143,000 penalty for fluoride violations in Hillsboro
Intel will pay $143,000 – one of the largest air-quality penalties in Oregon history – for violating environmental laws by failing to disclose fluoride emissions at its Washington County computer-chip factories. The company’s deal with the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality outlines additional steps Intel must take to correct its lapse, first reported last fall. […]
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No easy answers in West Salem cancer cases following EPA study
Two weeks ago, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released the results of soil tests showing nothing that could explain a string of childhood bone cancer cases in West Salem. Since, then, the Statesman Journal has received calls, letters and social media comments from dozens of community members suggesting other avenues to pursue. What about testing […]
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Wood Village leaders give up on fluoride after vocal, if small, opposition from residents
Sixty-one percent of Portlanders voted against putting fluoride in the city’s water supply last year. When the idea was floated to Wood Village residents last fall, the small town made an even more emphatic statement: 100 percent of those who responded said no. But there’s a catch: Just 10 people — eight of the city’s […]
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Intel committed to applying for rigorous retroactive construction permit for D1X following fluoride flub
Intel committed to pursuing an environmentally rigorous, retroactive construction permit for its multibillion-dollar D1X expansion in an attempt to mitigate fallout from its fluoride flub, according to a letter its lawyer sent the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality in November. Intel and the DEQ have been in closed-door talks for months on how to move […]
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My View: Intel’s emissions, not its benefits, in question
Chip giant shouldn’t be too big to meet state requirements The Portland Tribune editorial (Intel’s contribution more than emissions, Nov. 7) makes the editorial board look like an apologist for Intel. Given numerous articles on this subject in Pamplin’s other newspapers, this is a surprise. The claim that “there is no evidence at this point […]
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