by Associated Press Published: May 30,2013
Tags: bench, court, ecosystem, environment, fine, fish, fish kill, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, legal, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, mill, plant, pulp mill, sawmill, timber, water pollution, wildlife
NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge has ordered Temple Inland, a subsidiary of International Paper, to pay $3.3 million and serve two years of probation for polluting the Pearl River in 2011 with illegal discharges from its Bogalusa paper mill that killed thousands of fish. Equipment malfunctioned at the mill, which makes containerboard, allowing an [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: November 5,2012
Tags: amphibian, contamination, ecosystem, environment, figh, fish kill, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, mill, pollution, restock, settlement, spill, wildlife
PEARL RIVER — After a three-hour journey in a truck-mounted fish tank, thousands of young bluegills were released into the West Pearl River in St. Tammany Parish, La., last week. In small batches, state wildlife officials released 200,000 bluegills — raised at a state hatchery in Alexandria, La., — into the river near Interstate 59 [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: September 4,2012
Tags: ecosystem, environment, fish kill, industrial, industrial park, industry, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, plant, pollution, state agency, state government, water, wildlife
JACKSON COUNTY — The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality and the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources have issued a fishing and water contact closure for Bayou Casotte and the adjacent waters of the Mississippi Sound within 1,000 feet of the mouth of the bayou. The agencies say staff investigated a fish kill in Bayou Casotte [...] [...]
SOUTH MISSISSIPPI — The Pearl River Valley Water Supply District (PRV) has resumed normal operations of its fresh water discharge into the Pearl River from the Ross Barnett Reservoir. For a two-day period the PRV had increased that discharge in an effort to assist the people on the lower Pearl River as they recover from [...] [...]
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