(WI) Green Bay Press Gazette - A federal judge on Wednesday threw out a lawsuit filed by papermakers Appleton Papers Inc. and NCR Corp. to diffuse the $1 billion to $1.5 billion cost of cleaning up PCB contamination in the Fox River.

The sweeping action by U.S. District Judge William Griesbach canceled a Jan. 4 trial on the issue and raised questions about whether the two companies will bear the entire burden of the massive cleanup. More