Eugene halts biofuel facility proposal amid community concerns

Eugene’s Trainsong neighborhood has been proposed as the future home to a USD Clean Fuels transloading facility on Bethel Drive, with planners saying about 40 trucks per day would move biofuels from railcars and take them to market. Some neighbors have opposed the project, prompting the City of Eugene to withdraw the proposed facility’s zone verification, which determines if proposed uses are allowable on certain types of zoned properties.

What's next for homes contaminated by the J.H. Baxter wood treatment plant in West Eugene

By Makenzie Elliott, Register-Guard Photo by Chris Pietsch Neighbors and agencies tasked with cleaning up yards, gardens and soil contaminated with dioxins from the J.H. Baxter & Co. plant in West Eugene are still waiting for work to get underway more than a year after the wood treatment plant closed. J.H. Baxter "mothballed" its facility […]

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