Multnomah County adds NW Natural, Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine to climate lawsuit October 8, 2024

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Melanie Plaut, a medical doctor and volunteer with Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility, has been working for years to educate the public on the dangers methane gas poses to the shared environment and to people breathing toxins inside the home.
“Everything we burn we breathe – and NW Natural has done everything it can to be sure we keep burning methane,” Plaut said. “Both indoors and out, this produces substances known to contribute to premature birth, dementia, asthma and heart disease. Extreme weather like heat domes which we rarely saw before the climate started changing also impacts our health.”