Pressure mounts on methane-polluting Oregon landfill to clean up its act

Coffin Butte, a rapidly growing landfill in Oregon that is leaking explosive levels of methane, has caught the attention of state and federal officials. On August 8, Oregon’s U.S. senators, Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, and one of its U.S. House members, Val Hoyle, wrote a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection…