Mississippi Business Journal » kill http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Fri, 24 May 2013 20:36:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Company pleads guilty to charges from paper mill spill http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/02/08/compasny-pleads-guilty-to-charges-from-paper-mill-spill/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=compasny-pleads-guilty-to-charges-from-paper-mill-spill http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/02/08/compasny-pleads-guilty-to-charges-from-paper-mill-spill/#comments Fri, 08 Feb 2013 16:08:59 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=69397 PEARL RIVER — A company that owned a Bogalusa paper mill has pleaded guilty to charges stemming from an August 2011 spill of pulp byproducts into the Pearl River that killed more than 500,000 fish. Austin, Texas-based Temple Inland faces a maximum fine of $200,000 for its guilty plea to violating the Clean Water Act. [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/02/08/compasny-pleads-guilty-to-charges-from-paper-mill-spill/feed/ 1 Former mill owner charged after massive fish kill http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/12/27/former-mill-owner-charged-after-massive-fish-kill/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=former-mill-owner-charged-after-massive-fish-kill http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/12/27/former-mill-owner-charged-after-massive-fish-kill/#comments Thu, 27 Dec 2012 14:50:40 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=67319 PEARL RIVER — The Justice Department has filed two criminal misdemeanor charges against Temple-Inland, the former owner of a paper mill in Bogalusa, La., for violating federal environmental laws. The charges stem from a five-day spill of pollutants from the company’s paper plant into the Pearl River in August 2011. A bill of information filed [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/12/27/former-mill-owner-charged-after-massive-fish-kill/feed/ 0 Bayou Cassotte reopened after large fish kill http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/09/06/bayou-cassotte-reopened-after-large-fish-kill/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bayou-cassotte-reopened-after-large-fish-kill http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/09/06/bayou-cassotte-reopened-after-large-fish-kill/#comments Thu, 06 Sep 2012 17:39:42 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=62264 JACKSON COUNTY — State agencies say it is once again okay to fish and swim in Bayou Casotte and the adjacent waters of the Mississippi Sound. The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality and the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources closed the Jackson County area to fishing and water contact last Sunday, after investigating a fish [...]

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