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Paper Company Is Fined

AUSTIN, TX—The 2011 release of black liquor into the Pearl River in Louisiana has cost Temple-Inland $3.3 million in fines, The Advocate reported. The paper firm, a business of International Paper, was also sentenced to two years probation. The black liquor, a byproduct of pulp production, flowed from the Bogalusa mill into the Pearl River in 2011 after an evaporator at the mill became clogged.