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Earlier today, crews working with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) and the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) closed a one-block section of SE 86th Avenue from SE Stark Street to SE Washington Street in an effort to contain a mercury spill. A representative for the EPA indicated that a person deposited the hazardous substance […]

A Philomath company has some of its employees already working on the scene of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and has about 175 people on standby for cleanup efforts. Steve Finch, the program manager for NWFF Environmental, said Friday that the company has 10 employees in the Gulf Coast area working on communications, and

The COVID-19 pandemic slowed some aspects of the commercial maritime industry in 2020, particularly in the early months of the coronavirus’ emergence. But less than a year later, much of the industry returned to business as usual. In addition to that degree of normalcy, an unfortunate byproduct of maritime operations has also returned – spills