Mississippi Business Journal » mortality http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Wed, 22 May 2013 14:27:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 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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