Pollution & Toxics - Research & Publications

01/21/2010
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Curbing Stormwater Pollution

Stormwater doesn't match the traditional image of pollution. There are no factory smokestacks belching waste. Yet polluted stormwater packs a punch. Sightline's report, Curbing Stormwater Pollution, looks at the challenges we face and the opportunities we have to clean up our waterways.

09/05/2007
Report

Policy Analysis: Bulk Discounts for Polluters

According to a new analysis by Seattle-based Sightline Institute, one of Washington State’s few fees designed to discourage toxic pollution is undermined because it gives bulk discounts to the state's biggest polluters.

03/07/2006
Fact sheet

PBDEs and PCBs in the Northwest - Regional Data Sheet

Local data for Montana, British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon on PBDEs and PCBs in northwesterners.

03/07/2006
Fact sheet

PBDEs and PCBs in the Northwest - Q&A

The facts on Sightline's study of persistent toxics in northwesterners.

10/06/2005
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PBDEs in the Northwest - Meet the Moms

The mothers in the Sightline study tell why they were tested for PBDEs and what they think should be done about the problem of toxics in humans.

08/25/2005
Report

PBDEs Greater Than PCBs in 30% of Breast Milk Samples from the Pacific Northwest

An update to Sightline's 2004 study of PBDEs, toxic flame retardants, in Northwest mothers.

09/25/2004
Report

Flame Retardants in the Bodies of Pacific Northwest Residents

A study of flame retardants in northwesterners suggests that all northwesterners are contaminated with PBDEs.

08/07/2004
Fact sheet

Trouble at Paradise: Urban air pollution travels to Mt. Rainier

The mountain air near the Pacific Northwest’s biggest cities may be worse than the air in those cities—at least in terms of round-the-clock levels of one pollutant, ozone.

08/01/2004
Backgrounder

Air travel heats up the planet

An analysis of the environmental impacts of air travel, and which forms of transportation use less fuel.

09/01/1997
Book

Over Our Heads

An examination of climate change from a Northwest perspective, revealing the far-reaching effects it will have on our everyday lives and what we can do reduce the region's contribution.