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I think you guys are right.

We shouldn't focus on who's higher or lower on a list--what we should focus on is:

1) Identifying the environmental challenges in/around Portland
2) Informing/educating the masses of the challenges
3) Fixing them permanently

What is blatantly obvious here in Portland is that we DO have MAJOR environmental contamination, and that most people are completely unaware of it.

So please don't get hung up on the title of the story...You can't see the forest for the trees.

We can certainly build a nice green park over contaminated soil, but it sure doesn't clean up the ground water.

Portland has many nice green parks, and it has eco-minded folks driving hybrid's and recycling their water-bottles.
Yet under the nice, shiny, biodegradable, organic surface, Portland has a dark side.

Look up the Superfund sites located within city limits.
Look up the McCormick & Baxter Creosote Superfund Site.
Research Willamette water quality.
Research the toxic waste dump leaking PLUTONIUM into the ground water upstream on the Columbia. It's called Hanford. Portland (among others) will pay the heaviest price...

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