ip history of law suits and permit violations 1926 international paper co. Bill kovach, vermont seeks ruling against new york and paper mill on champlain pollution, new york times. 6 december 1970 1965 new york state department of environmental conservation nysdec orders ip to construct treatment systems for its plant.

Ip opts instead to build a new plant the current facility 10 miles north of the previous plant. Bill kovach, vermont seeks ruling against new york and paper mill on champlain pollution, new york times. 6 december 1970 1968 1970 ip and the state of vermont dispute over a 300 acre mass of sludge 20 feet thick in places ip has deposited on the bed of lake champlain. Ip refuses to admit that the sludge bed on the lake's floor, at the end of ticonderoga creek, where the mill dumps its effluent is the responsibility of ip. 6 december 1970 1978 vermont landowners file a class action suit against ip for damaging their property values. 25 july 1989 1981 more than 3 million gallons of partially treated waste water leak out of a drainage pipe into nearby wetlands that feeds into lake champlain.

5 nov 1989 1982 approximately 300 gallons of fuel oil overflow a storage tank and run into the lake. 5 nov 1989 1982 nearly two million gallons of waste water, only partially treated, is discharged into the lake. 5 nov 1989 1983 eight tons of dioxin laced sludge from ip's landfill breach a container dike and come to rest near a creek that runs into lake champlain. 5 nov 1989 1986 a landfill leachate collection pond overflows for longer than four days, spilling a half million gallons of liquid landfill drainage into a creek that runs into the lake. 5 nov 1989 1987 ip under reports its chloroform emissions by 90 percent, claiming an emission of 4,700 pounds, instead of 47,0 pounds.

25 july 1989 1988 ip again emits 47,0 pounds of chloroform, making it the largest chloroform source in new york state. 25 july 1989 1989 ip offers vermont landowners $5 million to drop their 1978 class action suit. Fred chasse, in a guest editorial in the burlington free press, points to incineration as the nation's number one source of dioxin.

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Fred chasse, paper mill is not lake's largest polluter, burlington free press. 14 november 1989 1990 a researcher for the vermont transportation agency's materials and research lab finds a new sludge bed, just north of ip's diffuser pipe. The researcher, richard haupt, says the volume of sludge would cover a football field to a depth of 18 feet.

23 january 1990 1990 a two mile pipe carrying leachate from one of the mill's two landfills bursts, sending a million gallons of effluent into wetlands adjacent to lake champlain. Then an employee of the plant breaks a beaver dam that was containing the waste, and it spills into lake champlain. Ip's environmental troubles stacking up, pulp and paper magazine, june 1991 vermont environmental officials only learn about this spill after senator elizabeth ready's constituents call her to report strange activities by ip along the shoreline. Although this item is about the ip mill in jay, maine, it is useful for insight into ip corporate culture. Pleads guilty to five felony counts and pays $ 2.2 million in federal fines for illegally storing and treating hazardous waste and making false statements to regulators. Department of justice, ip pleaded guilty to three violations of hazardous waste laws under the resource conservation and recovery act rcra involving the generating, storing, and treating of hazardous waste without a federal or state permit. This way, the mill avoided costly regulatory requirements for proper hazardous waste management.