Oregon Department of Environmental Quality

The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality has issued a more than $3 million penalty against the owners of the Coffin Butte landfill.

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.

Benton County Commissioners are taking a second look at their decision to allow the Coffin Butte landfill to expand. And this time, they’ll have new information to consider from Oregon’s environmental regulators.

About 4,800 members of the public had their personal information exposed after a cyberattack on the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality’s servers.

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

The Oregon Health Authority and the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality are working together to determine which locations will be monitored for the next two years.

Smoke from the Moon Complex Fire in southern Oregon is wafting into Western Lane and Douglas Counties.

The Department of Environmental Quality has issued an air quality advisory for southern Deschutes and Klamath Counties because of smoke from the Emigrant Fire.

The state will temporarily suspend standard electric vehicle rebates on Sept. 9, and federal tax credits end Sept. 30.

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.

On April 8, DEQ warned its staff not to click a link in a press release it had sent a week earlier, according to an email obtained by OPB. But DEQ didn’t share the same warning with media organizations, nonprofits or other people who were signed up to receive its news alerts.