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Oregon regulators fine polluting wood treater $1 million, allow it to keep operating
A penalty for wood treater Stella-Jones' Sheridan facility comes days after InvestigateWest found regulators investigating the pollution didn’t take steps to immediately stop it.
An Oregon wood treater kept polluting a town’s water source with a now-banned chemical — but regulators didn’t stop it
The Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde called on state and federal agencies to end a “decade-long pattern of reckless violations” from a wood treatment facility in Sheridan.
The U.S. government sold off these aging ships — leaving states in the Pacific Northwest to pay the price
Washington and Oregon officials say they’ve spent millions removing or destroying abandoned vessels sold by federal agencies to people who lack the ability to care for them.