Georgia-Pacific is closing its specialty wood-products factory in Phillips, eliminating about 60 jobs by late October.

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A federal trial in Milwaukee has several paper companies arguing over which firms are responsible for cleaning up the Fox River contaminated decades ago by discharges from the papermaking process.

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court says the state does not have the authority to determine whether state-issued water pollution permits comply with federal law. The court’s 5-2 ruling Wednesday comes in the case of environmentalists who argued ...

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GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Georgia-Pacific has told Wisconsin officials it will lay off almost 160 workers from its papermaking plant in Green Bay. That represents as much as a quarter of the employees there, who produce napkins, paper towels ...

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