DEQ reverses - again.
Byline: The Register-Guard For the second time in recent weeks, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality has reversed course and abandoned an ill-advised rule change that would have weakened environmental protections. Late last month, the DEQ jettisoned what would have been one of the weakest...

Mapping out geography's language: illustration of geographical terms (c. 1735).
The word geography is derived from the Greek for 'earth', with a suffix denoting the process of writing or of graphic representation, and its teaching has traditionally relied on visual aids. Central to this has been the use of cartography--in geography, a well-designed and executed map is most certainly...

Northwest mills endure spotty demand.
Byline: JOE HARWOOD The Register-Guard Weak demand and a shaky economy will continue to haunt the pulp and paper industry this year as it did in 2002. Inconsistent orders kept the industry off balance last year as mills tried to keep prices up by making...

Merger sure to result in lost jobs closed mills.
Byline: JOE HARWOOD The Register-Guard Now that Weyerhaeuser Co. has struck a tentative deal to buy Willamette Industries Inc. for $7.7 billion, the big question is which lumber, panel and paper mills will fall to the cost-cutting ax that is so often wielded in such cases. ...

Box makers facing another hard year.
Byline: JOE HARWOOD The Register-Guard The pulp and paper industry suffered mightily in 2001, and prospects are dim for a dramatic recovery this year. Paper mills, especially those in Oregon that produce the linerboard and corrugated medium used to make shipping boxes, are extremely sensitive...

New home for pulp mill supplier.
Byline: SHERRI BURI McDONALD The Register-Guard SPRINGFIELD - Cascade Automation Inc., a Springfield-based supplier of equipment to paper mills, is moving to bigger quarters off Highway 126 in Springfield. Owner Bob Gresham recently bought a 19,500-square foot industrial building at 1702 N. 28th St. from...

Using sludge to clean the air. (Emission Control).
Paper mills produce sludge. They also give off toxic emissions containing oxides of nitrogen, including N[O.sub.x], a by-product of combustion. Researchers at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, have developed and patented a process by which sludge from municipal waste water or paper mills can be turned into activated...

UPPC to invest P1.58 B in power plant project; Majority Thai-owned firm.
Byline: BERNIE CAHILES-MAGKILAT United Pulp and Paper Co. Inc. (UPPC), majority-owned by Thai investors, is investing P1.58 billion to put up a 25 megawatt circulating fluidized bed (CFB) co-generation plant to supply the power and steam requirements of its existing paper mills. The project, which...

Linis-Ganda: The story.
Byline: Leonarda N. Camacho METRO Manila Linis-Ganda is the only group in the entire country that has been assiduously collecting and bringing recyclable garbage such as paper, plastics, bottles, cans and metals back to the paper mills, plastics and glass factories and steel mills since February 12,...

Paper trail.
Byline: JOE HARWOOD The Register-Guard CAROLYN MORAN'S Living Tree Paper Co. lives up to its name. The tiny Eugene-based firm is on the cutting edge of forest-friendly paper making: Instead of using virgin wood pulp to make its printing, writing and specialty papers, Living Tree...