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I'm afraid that some of the Portland's reputation as a "green city" is really overhyped. Just looking at the air quality alone makes me wonder how healthy it is to live in Portland. Specifically, the levels of benzene as reported in the Oregonian newspaper and overall toxicity of Portland's air as reported in Northwest Examiner (September 9, 2009) does not, in my view, make Portland the "greenest city in the world".

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