(WI) Green Bay Post Gazette – The recent decision by U.S. District Judge William Griesbach to throw out a lawsuit by area paper companies is just another travesty in the PCB Fox River saga. To place the cost on the paper mills alone is wrong.

When PCBs were discharged in the river as a byproduct of carbonless paper manufacturing, it was a legal thing to do. Years later, after the federal government banned the use of PCBs in 1977, the government steps in and is forcing companies to clean up a problem that was created by what was legal at that time. That does not make any sense. More