Clearing the air in the Missoula Valley

When Smurfit-Stone Container Corp.’s linerboard plant in Frenchtown stopped making paper last week, it also stopped spouting what for years has been the largest plume of emissions rising out of the Missoula Valley. Air quality experts say the reduction in particulate matter could improve Missoula’s air quality, just as it teeters on the edge of violating the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) standards.

by Matthew Frank

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