Steve Duin: The alarm over air toxics in southeast Portland

Oregonian (editorial):

When inventive U.S. Forest Service researchers discovered frightening concentrations of arsenic and cadmium in moss samples from two Portland neighborhoods last May, they wasted no time alerting the state Department of Environmental Quality

You can understand the alarm. Arsenic may cause neurological problems in children, as well as skin and lung cancer. Prolonged exposure to cadmium is brutal on the kidneys and lungs.

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