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About 100 people attended a hearing in Eugene Wednesday night to find out what will happen to the old J.H. Baxter plant.

The Baxter site is especially challenging because it was mothballed, meaning the facility was abruptly shut down with pipes still full of chemicals.

The Environmental Protection Agency listed Eugene’s defunct J.H. Baxter wood treatment plant as a Superfund site.

In rural Oregon, residents are pushing back against a garbage giant’s plan to expand a controversial landfill.

The Oregon Senate passed a bill requiring a landfill notorious for methane leaks to use advanced technology to regulate the pollution it generates.

An Oregon landfill known for massive methane leaks may soon be required to regulate those emissions using advanced technology, like drones, planes or satellites.

On Wednesday, Oregon lawmakers took action that aims for more stringent monitoring at the Coffin Butte Landfill in Benton County and paved the way towards statewide improvement in the monitoring and mitigation of methane leaks.

Coffin Butte Landfill will have to improve monitoring and reporting of methane leaks under a bill passed June 4 by the Oregon Legislature.

Amid massive rollbacks of federal environmental protections, a community battling the expansion of a local landfill seeks to safeguard its own backyard – and everyone else’s.

Lane County is appealing a rejected permit and has requested legislative intervention to facilitate development.