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THE FILTHY RIVER

Environmental Groups Don’t Have the Balls

IN 1998, faced with worsening contamination of the Willamette River, Governor Kitzhaber organized the Willamette Restoration Initiative. At the time, environmentalists cheered when hand-picked representatives sat down with industry magnates. But now, with a deadline for solutions looming, it seems as if the chosen environmentalists have been sucked into an unhelpful bureaucracy. No real solutions […]

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