Archive for Health
Give the gift of fresh air
Avoid dangerous – and illegal – practice of burning holiday waste OLYMPIA – The holidays bring joy and happiness as families and friend gather together to celebrate the season. As fun and enjoyable as the get-togethers can be, however, there is a downside – trash! When groups gather for food and drink, garbage can pile [...]
Agencies Seek to Reduce Auto Repair Emissions
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) launched a Collision Repair Campaign in an effort to drastically reduce auto body emissions at the national level. The Campaign will work to significantly reduce human and environmental exposure to air toxics from auto body shops. While similar work has been done in the past in pockets around the [...]
Home Improvements Could Mean Tax Savings
As we approach the New Year, residents may want to take advantage of gifts being offered in the form of a Tax Credit from the Federal Government Residents who have an old, inefficient woodstove may replace it with a new, certified wood or pellet stove before Jan. 1, 2010, and receive a credit on the [...]
Burn Ban LIFTED in Thurston County
Thanks largely to a change in weather, air quality in ORCAA’s jurisdiction has improved substantially . As a result, the Olympic Region Clean Air Agency has lifted its Stage 2 Burn Ban in Thurston County effective today (Dec. 13) at 1 p.m. To ensure clean, healthful air for all, ORCAA encourages residents to be responsible [...]
Stage 2 Burn Ban – Thurston County
Dec. 10, 2009 – A Stage Two Burn Ban was called for Thurston County, effective 9 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009 and will continue indefinitely. No burning is allowed in fireplaces or wood stoves (certified and uncertified), and all outdoor burning is prohibited, even in areas where outdoor burning is not permanently banned. The ban [...]
You Burn It, You Breathe It
Recently, fire-danger burn bans were lifted in three of the counties within ORCAA’s jurisiction. The fire danger in Mason, Pacific Counties.Clallam, Jefferson and Grays Harbor Counties dropped to “low” so the Washington Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and county fire marshalls rescinded the summer-long burn ban in those counties. Note that burn bans remain in [...]