EPA

Four years after it shuttered - and almost nine months after being deemed a Superfund site- the J.H. Baxter wood treatment plant in Eugene is still well short of its "deep clean" phase.

The last of two lawsuits filed against the J.H. Baxter company was resolved Friday. No damages were awarded and plaintiffs have no opportunity to refile litigation related to its shuttered Eugene plant.

In the last two weeks, two class action lawsuits against the J.H. Baxter company have been reclassified as civil suits. Both filed in the spring of 2021, they stemmed from noxious odors and dioxins from its now-shuttered Eugene plant.

The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality says it's taking enforcement action against the Coffin Butte landfill north of Corvallis.

Despite the federal government shutdown, clean-up operations continue at the shuttered J.H. Baxter wood treatment plant in Eugene.

A Maryland-based specialty chemical company has agreed to pay half a million dollars for environmental violations at its former plant in the Linn County city of Albany.

Wednesday night, about 100 people attended a hearing in Eugene to find out what will happen to the old J.H. Baxter plant now that the facility has been listed on the EPA’s National Priorities List.

A controversial wood treatment plant in Eugene’s Bethel neighborhood is now officially a site warranting millions – if not billions – of dollars in environmental cleanup.

Earlier this year, Georgia Baxter-Krause of wood products company J.H. Baxter pleaded guilty to violating environmental laws, then lying about it to federal regulators. An attorney with a class-action lawsuit says having Baxter-Krause pay fines and serve time helps his case, but restitution for victims still seems far from certain.

Benton County’s Planning Commission is holding hearings on a controversial proposal to expand the Coffin Butte landfill.

A $20 million federal grant to support environment and climate justice in Lane County has been suspended. Local officials are now unclear on what’s next.

The Trump administration’s on-again, off-again federal funding freeze sowed widespread anxiety and confusion across the country and around Oregon. In Mapleton, locals feared a delay in federal grant payments would jeopardize efforts to rebuild their failing water system.