Legal

Canada's Standing Committee on Natural Resources has passed a motion to investigate the ownership structure and business relations of Paper Excellence, a pulp and paper company based in Richmond.

The lawsuits against 3M and Dupont seek financial damages to pay for the state's investigation into PFAS contamination.

Japan's Fair Trade Commission on Tuesday conducted on-site inspections of seven facilities linked to paper distributor Japan Pulp and Paper Co. and three other companies over suspected bid-rigging.

Paper Excellence says it will appear before MPs if summoned by the Natural Resources committee.

The closure of the Canton paper mill raises questions over whether the Pactiv Evergreen will have to repay some or all of a $12 million state grant it received eight years ago.

Congressman Chuck Edwards had called for an investigation.

The findings are the latest issue for the beleaguered mill.

Damico has been accused of stabbing another individual at the packaging warehouse following an altercation, as stated in Grundy County court records. Both the victim and Damico were employees at the business.

According to a press release received Monday by Erin Wilson, director of communications for the N.C. Department of Labor, WestRock Kraft Paper LLC was cited with two alleged serious violations of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of North Carolina with a total penalty of $29,004.

Unions representing hundreds of paper mill workers in British Columbia are fighting to resolve payment issues three years after a cyberattack compromised the system that kept track of workers' pay, court documents show.

One worker was killed Aug. 16, 2022 at the Ahlstrom paper mill, also known as the Thilmany mill.

On Monday, Feb. 13, the legal team representing residents filed a lawsuit saying harmful chemicals beneath the mill are being dumped in the Catawba river.

The US Commerce Department plans to raise tariffs on two of Canada's largest timber companies, while reducing tariffs on most other Canadian producers.

Domtar operated a disposal site for the waste from production from 1998 to 2020, when the Port Huron plant closed.

It was reported that the drivers were a man and woman. They say the Marysville Police Dept. told them they received a call about a woman heading south from Marysville with a gun. The woman at the plant had a shotgun pointed at the man. Responding officers were able to talk them down and take both individuals into custody.

Roseburg Forest Products announced that it has agreed in principle with four law firms representing the majority of claims to settle the families' property losses, personal injuries and wrongful death claims arising from the Sept. 2 Mill Fire.

A B.C. Supreme Court judge has upheld more than $343,000 in cost-recovery fines that were handed to a forestry company for starting a wildfire in 2016.

Ron Van Den Heuvel, who formerly headed Green Box of De Pere, was sentenced Jan. 23, 2019, to 7½ years in prison. He was released early from federal prison because of the COVID-19 epidemic. He has been living in the Cheboygan, Michigan, area, and has been earning income, U.S. District Judge William Griesbach wrote in a five-page decision last week.

It is at least the fourth civil lawsuit to be brought against Roseburg in connection with the Mill Fire. The 3,935-acre wildfire sparked Sept. 2 near the city of Weed, destroying more than 115 structures and killing two residents.

The New Indy paper mill in York County has agreed to a $1.1 million penalty and consent decree to resolve the lawsuit filed against the mill for causing a foul odor.

One of Metsä Fibre Oy's Kemi bioproduct mill project suppliers, Virtor Oy, has filed a groundless bankruptcy application against Metsä Fibre Oy.

Paper manufacturers Packaging Corporation of America Central California Corrugated, LLC. (PCA) and Schwarz Partners LP will pay $385,000 and implement preventative measures to settle a racial harassment lawsuit seeking relief for two African American men who worked at a manufacturing plant located in McClellan, California, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced.

ND Paper Mill in Old Town is facing legal trouble after a class-action lawsuit was filed in federal court in Bangor.

Roseburg Forest Products has reportedly begun settlement discussions in multiple lawsuits alleging that its actions caused the fire in Siskiyou County in September.

Graphic Packaging International would pay a $99,270 fine and be required to make process changes at its paper factory over alleged air quality violations, under an order proposed by state of Michigan environmental regulators and announced this week.