President of Eugene wood treatment plant gets 90-day prison term for lying to DEQ inspectors

President of J.H. Baxter sentenced to 90 days in prison for pollution charges

The president of a company that flouted environmental regulations has been sentenced to 90 days in prison and a year of supervised release, federal officials said on Wednesday.

President of wood products company J.H. Baxter fined, sentenced to 90 days in jail in Eugene

The president of the J.H. Baxter wood products company was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Eugene.In January, Georgia Baxter-Krause pleaded guilty to violating the federal Clean Air Act and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, as well as making false statements to federal regulators. This follows years of complaints, probes, violations, and various state and federal fines surrounding the plant’s operations in the Bethel neighb…

President of Eugene wood treatment plant gets 90-day prison term for lying to DEQ inspectors

A federal judge Tuesday sentenced the president of Eugene’s J.H. Baxter & Co. wood treatment plant to 90 days in prison for lying about the company’s illegal handling of hazardous waste at the site.