In what environmental groups are calling a public health victory, a glass recycling plant in Northeast Portland has proposed to install air pollution control technology.
Officials with Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc. submitted an application to the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality to install the technology, which will cut emissions of harmful pollutants from the plant, the agency announced Thursday, June 30.
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