Inside Bullseye Glass

Bullseye Glass in Southeast Portland manufactures glass used for architectural and art uses. The company is at the center of a hot spot for toxic metals pollution and has suspended use of cadmium, arsenic and chromium in glassmaking and hired an environmental firm to recommend pollution control. Kristyna Wentz-Graff / Staff

(Kristyna Wentz-Graff)

Oregon environmental regulators last week released 32 years of files on Bullseye Glass, the glass maker at the center of toxic air pollution concerns in Southeast Portland.

Those records showed that the company was instrumental in creating what Sen. Ron Wyden has described as an air pollution loophole "the size of a lunar crater."

They also show how the company first drew regulators' attention in 1984: A state inspector saw thick smoke coming from the glass maker's smokestack on his way to work.

Though The Oregonian/OregonLive asked the state Department of Environmental Quality to post these documents online for the public to read, the agency hasn't yet.

So here they are:

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-- Rob Davis

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