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• Monmouth, DEQ team to clean up gas spill (Itemizer-Observer)
  
• Klamath County announces open burn window (KDRV)
• State Suggests Burying Willamette Cove's Toxic Soil Along Beach (Willamette Week)
  
• Oregon Legislature considers bill creating right to repair electronics​ (Salem Reporter)
  
• DEQ toxics study finds Umpqua Rivers safe for fishing, boating and recreating (The News Review)​
  

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Women on the move at DEQ

As Women’s History Month comes to a close, Oregon DEQ wants to honor and celebrate the many women in our agency, who work tirelessly to restore, maintain and enhance our state’s air, land and water. Their hard work, expertise and lived experiences provide unique perspectives and contributions to our mission. 

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In her own words: Reflections on being a woman in leadership 

I’ve pursued paths that, while they weren’t unheard of for women, women were definitely in the minority. I pursued my undergraduate degree in civil engineering at a time when women made up about 10% of the students in my degree program. That was the highest percentage among the all the engineering fields of study at the time. 

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