At its August 28th meeting, Beyond Toxics’ Board of Directors voted to endorse the Freedom from Aerial Herbicides Alliance’s charter…
State Forest Agency Suppresses Its Own Aerial Spray Info
Did you know our own Oregon (ODF) is clear-cutting and chemically poisoning public state forest lands, using the same extractive…
Farm Worker Rights in the Age of Trump
Oregon has over 300 registered farm worker housing camps and another 200 unregistered camps. Most of these camps are located…
Why You And I Are Thrilled to Protect Oregon’s People, Pollinators and Places – Again!
I’m writing this from the bedside of my childhood friend who grew up on the same street as I. Ten…
Frontline Communities Need Air Data
All communities need their voices heard and their rightful place in the decisions to strengthen Oregon’s air quality laws. In…
Strides to Improve Air Quality and Ban Asbestos
Healthy air should be a basic right, but all over the world, people face exposure to toxins that remain unregulated…
Beyond Toxics Speaks Truth to Timber's Tall Tales
The Register Guard published a Nov. 30 guest viewpoint written by former Lane County Commissioner, Anna Morrison, who no longer…
Regulating air for community health - a new concept in Oregon?
Governor Kate Brown initiated the Cleaner Air Oregon campaign after state agencies discovered that glass makers were the source of…
Crow Feather Farm
Beyond Toxics is publicizing local gardens friendly to our increasingly fragile population of pollinators. In this blog we visit Jessica…
Oregon needs local toxics-reporting laws
It's important to know when you're being poisoned by industrial toxic discharges, whether to air, water or land. Some would…