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An all too familiar scenario played itself out at last week's meeting of the Oregon Environmental Quality Commission.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 30-AUG-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: An all too familiar scenario played itself out at last week's meeting of the Oregon Environmental Quality Commission.(Editorials)(Editorial)

Article Excerpt
Byline: The Register-Guard

An all too familiar scenario played itself out at last week's meeting of the Oregon Environmental Quality Commission.

Earlier this summer, the Lane County Board of Commissioners asked the commissionto impose a two-year moratorium on Willamette Valley field burning. Like the 2007 Legislature and legislatures before it, the EQC stepped adroitly to the side, avoiding its responsibility to protect public health.

The EQC optedto recommend that the state Department of Environmental Quality "request resources" from the Legislature to "study the health effects and alternatives to field burning."

In her Aug. 22 guest viewpoint, DEQ Director Stephanie Hallock observed that deliberative processes take time and that "this will undoubtedly be disappointing to many." No one could disagree with that. Will a pat on the head and the promise of future...

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