Potlatch Corp. employees packed a meeting in Lewiston last week to protest
the temperature standard included in a draft pollution permit governing
the company’s wastewater discharge in the Snake River.
About 1,500 people crowded into Warrior Gym at Lewis Clark State College,
where the Environmental Protection Agency took public comment on the draft
permit. Strict temperature standards in the draft may require Potlatch
to spend $25 million on a refrigeration plant to cool its wastewater …