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Benton County commissioners allocated only 20 minutes towards talking about revisionary bylaws to how the Disposal Site Advisory Committee could carry out its work during a county meeting on March 19. Instead, they spoke for almost an hour. DSAC exists in accordance with Oregon State law, and according to ORS 459.325, must review regional disposal...

Oregon law mandates that any county that maintains a landfill must also maintain a disposal site advisory committee, but when Ken Eklund, chair of Benton County’s Disposal Site Advisory Committee called for a meeting, he was forced to cancel it as the county would not send anyone to log the hours. The next day, the...

An environmental scientist identified 61 instances in which emissions went beyond the 500 parts per million threshold the agency has set as a safety line.

Coffin Butte Landfill is leaking methane at levels that exceed state and federal limits, a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency inspection has found.