Paper and Product Packaging Industry

Consumer question: When is 'green' logging really green?

2013-05-31 06:30:00

SEATTLE — The seal looked appealing, a daisy on a field of green, with the words “Tested Green.” It was issued to more than 120 products as a guarantee of environmental responsibility. The problem, federal trade regulators announced in...

PASSINGS: Richard B. Scudder, Barton Biggs

2012-07-17 00:00:00

Richard B. Scudder Co-founder of MediaNews Group Richard B. Scudder, 99, co-founder and former chairman of MediaNews Group Inc., the nation's second-largest newspaper company, who also helped invent a process allowing newsprint to be recycled, died...

Paper airplanes with MIT solar technology can make electricity

2011-07-28 16:36:15

Greenpeace campaign targets Mattel

2011-06-07 16:34:06

Plastic bags banned in unincorporated Los Angeles County

2010-11-16 16:32:49

Weather news, Sunday comics changing July 5

2009-09-17 08:54:26

New High (M)art moves from Chinatown to Los Feliz Village

2009-09-18 16:32:15

At Randy Parton Theatre, show goes on without 'star'

2007-12-17 00:00:00

ROANOKE RAPIDS, N.C. — It seemed like a good idea at the time. This ailing textile town, seeking an economic boost, decided two years ago to build a $21-million theater and pay a country singer named Parton to fill it with customers. Alas, the...

Spreading the word, through pamphlets

2008-07-20 00:00:00

I had an epiphany the first time I visited the Free Tract Society, in a large storefront on York Boulevard in Los Angeles' Highland Park. Two 20-foot-long tables were weighed down with neatly stacked piles of fliers blaring lurid headlines that dealt with...

Dark cloud over good works of Gates Foundation

2007-01-07 00:00:00

Ebocha, Nigeria — Justice Eta, 14 months old, held out his tiny thumb. An ink spot certified that he had been immunized against polio and measles, thanks to a vaccination drive supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. But polio is not the...

Carcinogen worries stick to food packaging

2008-07-30 00:00:00

The next time you make some microwave popcorn or cook a frozen pizza, consider this: The packaging of many of these products contains a chemical that the Environmental Protection Agency considers potentially carcinogenic and wants businesses to...

Los Angeles Times Recycling Programs

2001-06-21 16:08:38

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Paper mill in Luke owned by New Page Corp. would have retained revenues from renewable energy credits, but opposed the bill anyway, along with the rest of the paper industry.

2013-03-29 16:22:00

Paper mill in Luke in Allegany County would be spared any loss of revenue from legislation environmentalists say would close a loophole in the state's renewable energy law.

2013-03-29 06:11:00

From 1950: Pulpwood assembled in Heron Bay, Ontario, for shipping to paper mills to make newsprint for the Tribune.

2012-12-28 12:26:00