The totals for 1995 by both companies were within federal regulations, said Jerry Gilliland, public information manager for Ecology. The two companies' emissions neared 1 million pounds each. The plant with the most such emissions was Weyerhaeuser's Longview operation, which emitted 5.7 million pounds of toxics in 1995, the report said. The report indicates better technology has cut emissions of 17 highly toxic chemicals statewide by 57 percent since 1988. People shouldn't think they're being poisoned by these facilities.
Society demands that companies continue to look for ways to operate as clean as possible.
We live here, too. He credits the reduced emissions to new operating procedures and expects a new pollution control system to lower the releases even more in 1996. In 1995, the plant emitted 1.3 million pounds, compared with 1.18 million pounds in 1994, Gilliland said. However, those are only estimates, he said. The level of methanol released fell by about 50,000 pounds to 548,000 pounds in 1995.