illegal burning

The Washington State Department of Ecology announced this week fines and penalties for the second quarter of 2017, including two growers for illegal burning.   One Adams County orchard was fined $2,500 for burning tree roots and other orchard materials without a permit and a Grant County producer was fined $2,000 for burning apple boxes, treated posts and other material.  ...

Illegal burning costs three Grant and Adams County producers a few thousand dollars in fines to the Washington State Department of Ecology.   The DOE released their fines for the first quarter of 2017 and it included one producer in Othello who was fined $3,000 for burning without a permit and burning illegal materials. Two...

A Royal City fruit growing and packing company has been fined by the Washington State Department of Ecology.     The DOE says Yakima-based Washington Fruit and Produce Company put the community’s health at risk and violated air-quality rules when they burned tree branches and roots without a permit on days with a burn at their Tyee Ranch facility.   A DOE ...