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 Stories About: business AND toxics AND water pollution AND Wisconsin
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The Duck Stops Here
Polluting Wisconsin paper companies choose an odd mascot |
Erik Ness |
02 Aug 2000 |
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| No doubt you're annoyed by the calendar-quality images of nature being used to pedal everything from SUVs to shampoo to batteries. Now a coalition of paper companies in the Fox River Valley, near Green Bay, Wis., has taken this advertising tactic to a new low, bringing a little dark comedy to a community engaged in a decades-long dispute over cleaning up the heavily polluted waters of the Lower ... |
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| Topics: business, toxics, water pollution, Wisconsin (all these topics) |
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