Reported by Louisiana Environmental Action Network Dec 17, 2018 Georgia-Pacific in Crossett, Arkansas Settles EPA Claims of Violations of the Clean Air Act for: $600,000 Civil Penalty $2.9 million in Mitigation Project $2 million in Supplemental Environmental Projects By Wilma Subra On December 14, 2018, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a settlement with …
With 601,256 tons of CO2 “equivalents”, Port Townsend Paper maintains its rank as 25thamong WA State’s worst greenhouse gas emitters. WA Dept of Ecology released its 2017 figures today, Dec 20, 2018, which they present on newly designed – and very easy to use – greenhouse gas map and data pages that go from 2017 …
A three and a half minute video from Climate Reality explains the costs of carbon in the atmosphere. Video: “The Cost of Carbon” | Climate Reality To bring it home, let’s do a comparison. Commercial air travel is considered one of the most carbon intensive modes of travel. At 1.1 Billion pounds annually, Port Townsend …
How much pollution does Port Townsend Paper spew? Has it gotten any better? The attached table, entitled 2008-2016 PTPC Pollution Indicators to Air-Water-Land presents Port Townsend Paper’s pollution track record for 9 years, from 2008-2016 in a file with easy totals, and a page for each year. More about it below, but first — In …
EPA’s ECHO database (Environmental Compliance History Online) yields some great information once you get exploring around in it. An EPA official showed me that by following the “Facility Search” link, it brought me to a page that combines annual pollution data for Port Townsend Paper that is collected through three EPA programs (TRI, NAAQS and GHG), …