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DEQ Has Oregon in Hot, Dirty Water

by Carl Segerstrom, Katherine Smith and Erin Carey
The reporters discovered that the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality was years — and sometimes — decades behind in renewing water pollution permits granted to major companies and municipal sewer agencies. The result: The state allows companies and cities to operate under outdated environmental standards and pour wastes into Oregon rivers already so polluted they violate federal Clean Water standards.

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