#labor-and-employment

#labor-and-employment

People in Longview, Wash., have been waiting for what feels like forever for something to go terribly wrong in one of the paper mills that line the Columbia River. The plants that fuel the economy in southwest Washington came for the ample timber in the Pacific Northwest's mountains, the cheap electricity powered by the region's mighty rivers and the ocean access at the Columbia's mouth. But they rely on technology that is dangerous, expensive to maintain and dependent on potentially toxic chemicals.