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America’s Top Logger Bets It Can Make Money Off Small, Crooked Trees
Weyerhaeuser’s $500 million plant in Arkansas will turn small trees, once bound for paper mills, into engineered lumber.
Camas-Washougal Post-Record6d
Researchers: paper mills generate more greenhouse gases than reported
A new report from Environmental Integrity Project — a national watchdog group founded by Eric Schaffer, former director of ...
Independent.ie7d
Irish packaging giant Smurfit Westrock sued for $75m after work accident in the US
A truck driver who delivered caustic soda to a US paper mill owned by Irish packaging giant Smurfit Westrock is suing the ...
The Montana Standard7d
Frenchtown mill guilty of failing to clean Canadian pulp plant - Montana Standard
The former Smurfit-Stone Container pulp mill covered 3,200 acres south of Frenchtown ... International Paper Co. and WestRock Co. were in negotiations to cover M2Green’s costs to keep the ...
The Columbian8d
Paper mills generate up to 3 times more greenhouse gases than previously reported, say researchers
A new report from Environmental Integrity Project — a national watchdog group founded by Eric Schaffer, former director of the Environmental Protection Agency — claims some paper mills could be genera ...
The Energy Mix12d
Paper Industry’s CO2 Emissions Rival Refineries—But Go Unchecked
The EPA houses the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program, where facilities report their emissions of gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. But EPA facility totals don’t include what are ...
Virginia Mercury22d
Decades-old paper mill in Covington named nation’s top climate polluter in new report
A World War II-era boiler in Virginia is at the center of a growing debate over the paper industry’s role in climate change — and how much pollution goes uncounted due to loopholes in federal ...
The Victoria Advocate22d
Decades-old paper mill in Covington named nation’s top climate polluter in new report
A World War II-era boiler in Virginia is at the center of a growing debate over the paper industry’s role in climate change — and how much pollution goes uncounted ...
Inside Climate News26d
Report: Paper Mills Around the Country, Including Virginia, Release Pollution From Decades-Old Boilers
Donna Thomasson is a 34-year-old nurse who grew up on a hillside overlooking the Smurfit Westrock paper mill nestled in the hollers of Covington in Southwest Virginia. Its smokestacks tower over ...
Grist27d
Paper plants can emit as much CO2 as oil refineries | Grist
According to the EIP investigation, the 10 pulp and paper mills that reported the most greenhouse gases in 2023 were able to lower their reported “total” emissions by between 61 and 90 percent ...