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Eugene Mayor Lucy Vinis is working to stop a proposed biofuel transfer facility from being built in the Trainsong neighborhood. This development comes after city staff approved the USD Clean Fuel's zone verification application in June. The City of Eugene now has 90 days to reconsider the land-use application for the facility.

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…

The City of Eugene has pulled its approval for a proposed fuel transfer facility in the Trainsong neighborhood. City staff will now reconsider the application. At the Eugene Clean Fuels Facility, workers would load biofuels from railcars onto an estimated 40 trucks per day. The site would be on railroad property off of Bethel Drive.…

An energy company wants to transfer fuel from trains to trucks in Eugene’s Trainsong neighborhood. But some community members there are concerned about the risk of an environmental disaster. Now, the local watchdog group Beyond Toxics says it plans to challenge the project. Lisa Arkin, the Executive Director of Beyond Toxics, told neighbors these biofuels…

An energy company wants to transfer fuel from trains to trucks in Eugene’s Trainsong neighborhood. But some community members there are concerned about the risk of an environmental disaster. Now, the local watchdog group Beyond Toxics says it plans to challenge the project.