It is frightening that the air in the Rogue Valley, even with all the rains we've been having this winter-spring, is making my eyes water, my vision be less dependable, my nasal passages chronically blocked. And this is true for many of my friends. We do need stronger pollution standards & measures to keep our forests healthy, or all of us pay a terrible price with health problems.

Harmful air pollution is one more reason for our society to let go of our addiction to fossil fuels. Thank you, Dr. Donohoe. for stepping up to be our Oregon Clean Air Ambassador.

If we have to explain to some one who doesn't think it matters that our air is clean,then they have completely forgotten about humanity, or like the ones that don't give a small pile of crap about the future generations. Pure ignorant.Amazing.

Thanks, Martin. My nephew has asthma, in Ashland, and my sister also has struggled with it. It's very scary. At times it's not possible to see across the valley east to the mountains in the summer now. Every living thing needs clean air! Including our trees.

Clean air is vital for all of us. Thanks for sticking up for us.

Go Martin... clean air is great wealth.

Thank you! I also like to breathe!

Thank you for speaking up RE clean air. I
can't understand those who seem most 'unconcerned' about protecting air quality.
Don't they understand that they all breath
air and are going to suffer..If they have any children, aren't they concerned about their
own family's health. ?!
What Crass Stupidity !!

I'm a SR citizen and a proud member of the
Corvallis "Raging Grannies" a very active
singing group.The environment & HR 676 are favorite themes. If you'd like a good
protest song..Let us know. I really mean it ---
Judith B Fisher, 541-754-6608

It's time to wake up and start doing the right thing. We need to convert clean energy technologies.

I am asthmatic. Clean air means life. Polluted air means death.

Clean air is a human and animal right.

Our living planet depends on clean air! Thank you for advocating for us, and all living things.

Clean air is a human right.

Good! You share with them..I am also a healthcare provider.

Clean air is a human right.

Also a big problem - the increased benzene levels our gasoline is allowed to contain

Air. The one thing we have no substitute for.

Please keep ours healthy!

Thank you Mr. Donohoe, for your stance on this important issue. Pollution from all the sources which concern you are in dire need of monitoring. Please count on my support.

Thank you for your stance on this important issure. The allowance of toxic air in our state, from all the sources which concern you, has gone way too far. Please count on my support.

What could be more important than the quality of the air we and our families breathe? Thank you for taking this issue to heart and working on Oregonian's behalf--our health depends on activists such as yourself! Thank you!

Thank you for your efforts on behalf of clean air. Fresh air is fundamental to all human life on this planet. I have become very aware of the preciousness of clean air after losing half of my normal lung capacity (partially paralyzed diaphragm) due to unknown causes. Each breath I now take is more important to my health than ever before.

We have the technology to clean the air we breath and the atmosphere that protects us; yet we seem to lack the will to do so. The reason is not new; short term thinking and short term profits. Unless this is to be society's epitaph, we must act now and we must act decisively. Clean the air and renew the atmosphere

I am disheartened by Oregon's level of industrial air pollution, which includes our continued reliance on coal...but I am not disheartened.

Oregon has great leadership, so I hope that our environmental nature from said leadership will make and enforce laws to lessen industrial air pollution. Thank you!

We used to be admired and envied by the rest of the world. Now we are laughed at and should be admiring so many other nations. If our nation is worth our young men and women dying on foreign soils, isn't it worth us living for our
country AND our young people?

Thanks for taking this issue, and yourself, to Washington, where dirty money has bought dirty skies for too long. Earthjustice and PSR have done so much to protect what healthy environment we still have, and it's time to heal the rest.
I grew up in a rust belt city where the pollution was obvious, sometimes with smokestacks in the next block. But Oregon has become too degraded, even if big dirty factories are less evident.

Keep up the great work!

Martin: Thank you for posting. I think you are a fantastic doctor and I miss you since you left OHSU. I hope everything in your life is going the way you want it to. Thank you for doing good work for people - as we know, this is the exception to the rule in the health care industry, and it is doubly shameful because we all rely on our doctors to help us to take care of ourselves. - S.

One reason Calif. is so polluted is because it's "too business friendly" and too sprawled out, everyone needs to drive to get anywhere....

You don't want overly "business friendly" leadership in your state, it creates far too much growth, yes, it brings in revenue. But if the state isn't prepared to grow with it. and keep stringent pollution regulations. Oregon as you know it won't remain, the beautiful state it is...

Your work is vital to our quality of life and health!

My husband & I left southern California to retire to a place of clean air and a place surrounded by trees rather than concrete and buildings, the smog is horrific in OC. It's so nice to live in a place with clean air & less people & businesses to pollute it! I support your efforts 100% and thank you for speaking out and educating our public, I think we need to go a step further and educate the people on the GOP representatives how their ideology supports corporations who pollute over our health & welfare...

The increase of asthma in children over the last 20 years speaks for itself--we need cleaner air. The pollution via rain ends up in our rivers and streams. We need to stop killing our environment.

Time to clean it up folks

Thank you for speaking truth to power!

Uhm... we're ALL breathing the same "atmosphere" ... shouldn't we all be breathing the same AIR too...? Thanks for taking this on as an important issue... Tell them, just try to go without air for a few minutes... you'll see how important CLEAN air is...

Thanks for advocating for clean air. It's a life or death matter for me and others with breathing problems.

We need clean air for our health. It is cheaper to care for a society that is healthy. This is just common sense folks. Unhealth air = unhealthy people = sick people who can't work = expensive to care for = higher taxes wasted on treating illnesses that could have and should have been prevented in the first place. The coal fired power plants (and other big polluters) are not paying thier share for the healthcare needed to offset their direct effect on the environment, the damage that occurs "downstream" from their actions. If a ran around threatening peoples health and wellbeing, they'd throw me in prision. Creating unhealthy air is a threat to our health and wellbeing. Where is the justice? More like where's the payoff?...

Thank you for representing us.

Thank you! You have the support and gratitude of many.

Thank you for your efforts to improve our air.

Finally, someone speaking truth to power (especially dirty power plants). Thank you, Doc Martin!

I share your concern, even though I do not have respiratory problems of my own.

I am especially pleased that you are a physician, which will add credibility to the message of the rest of the ambassadors.

Thank you for all you do! You have a heck of a fight ahead, so I wish you the best of Luck!

Thank you so much for being Oregon's ambassador for clean air, an issue that concerns us all.

Keep us the good work!

Keep going. We need all the people like you we can get. Thanks.

Anyone who has children is concerned about air quality. Thank you for doing the work you do.

Thanks! Please keep up the good work. I want tougher municipal regulations on wood burning, yard debris burning and farm burning too!

Thank you. Your work is critically important to all of us.

thank you!

Thanks for what you are doing!

What have we done to our Earth?! Thank you for helping to mitigate the damage!