Environment

Lane County’s efforts to build a food waste diversion facility south of Eugene were rejected for a second time Wednesday. The Oregon Court of Appeals upheld a previous zoning denial from the state’s land use board.

Oregon parks officials have removed a monument in Honeyman State Park near Florence after it was damaged in an attempted theft. Officials say they will to assess the damage and plan repairs.

Portland State University scientists are developing a soil treatment, using microbes, to combat soil liquefaction.

Oregon wildlife officials say they detected invasive Quagga mussels on a boat traveling from Arizona over the weekend, but were able to remove them before they entered Oregon’s waterways.

A state board upheld a local ruling that found CleanLane is incompatible with zoning in the proposed Goshen location. The decision could be appealed in the new year, and the county is exploring moving the project to Short Mountain Landfill in the meantime.

The annual project aims to teach children about a variety of topics from science to Native American history.

The garbage hauler that handles Springfield’s trash, Sanipac, has not paid millions of dollars in fees it owes to Lane County, according to the county.

We hear about efforts to build the blue economy from the keynote speakers at an upcoming event in Oregon, the Port of San Diego’s Paula Silvia and Jason Giffen.

Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield and a coalition of other attorneys general successfully reversed a $184 million federal cut to AmeriCorps. However, some places that relied on the program are still reeling from the initial cut.

The squirrel was underweight and hypothermic when discovered at a park.

Benton County Commissioners are expected to finalize the language of a plan at an upcoming meeting, with the final vote coming a week later.

Lane County leaders are asking Oregon lawmakers to clear legal hurdles to build a planned recycling and methane extraction facility known as the IMERF, or CleanLane project.