Wood Companies, President Fined $1.5 Million for Hazardous Waste

The J.H. Baxter wood products company and its president were fined $1.5 million for hazardous waste and Clean Air Act violations at a wood treatment facility in Eugene, Ore.

Chief Judge Michael J. McShane sentenced Georgia Baxter-Krause to 90 days in jail on Tuesday after the president and her companies previously pleaded guilty to violating the CAA and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act in the US District Court for the District of Oregon.

J.H. Baxter & Co. Inc. and J.H. Baxter & Co. used hazardous chemicals to treat wood at its Eugene facility and then boiled excess wastewater from ...