Rain Forest, Orcas, Seals, Marine Life.. your Health, Why is Port Townsend Paper Mill Still Here? For the Profit of Amcol, AMO?

"“The health impacts have been established by various studies,” he said in a March presentation. “Who is most affected? Our children, our teens, our elders.”

State and federal regulators acknowledge that these industrial processes have health risks.

“Pollutants emitted from biomass burning can cause a range of dangerous health effects,” noted Enesta Jones, spokesperson for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Gary Palcisko, an air quality toxicologist with the state DOE, said that scientists keep a particularly close eye on particulate emissions – whether increasing or decreasing.

“Some have chemicals attached to them,” he said. “They are a vehicle that carry pollutants or other things into the lungs, or the particles themselves can cause problems in your lungs.”

Thanks to a steady ratcheting up of pollution controls over the last 40 years, industrial emissions of particulate matter across the U.S. has steadily declined, he said"

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