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A few years ago, Arjorie Arberry-Baribeault was living out her childhood dream: turning beauty shop play into a real salon just down the road from her home in West Eugene. She had no plans to become an environmental justice activist. Then her daughter, Zion, got sick.

Baxter and its president and owner quickly whipped out an astonishing sum — more than $1 million — to pay fines to settle federal criminal environmental charges that posed the threat of serious prison time for Baxter-Krause.

Benton County staff have recommended that the county’s planning commission deny an application to expand Coffin Butte Landfill.

The county’s building permit was rejected and one trash company has diverted thousands of tons of garbage and revenue, to its own landfill.

Georgia Baxter-Krause, president of the polluting wood-processing firm J.H. Baxter, has been sentenced to 90 days in prison and a $500,000 fine after pleading guilty to federal environmental crimes.

90 days in jail in addition to $1.5 million in fines is the sentence given to J.H. Baxter's president, Georgia Baxter-Krause on Tuesday.

The president of the J.H. Baxter wood products company was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Eugene.

A bill moving through the Oregon legislature that aims to limit the use of certain pesticides to protect the state's ecosystem is facing growing changes and backlash.

Oregon implemented the strictest landfill gas emissions rule in the nation in 2021. But a report from Beyond Toxics argues exemptions have allowed private operators to avoid monitoring large areas.

Oregon’s corporate-owned landfills are using a loophole in state law to avoid methane monitoring on an average of about half of their operating surfaces, a new study concludes.