Fox River Fix: Lessons from Paper Valley to Green Bay & Beyond

Paper Valley is the true 1990s story behind the world's largest, most divisive, most politically charged environmental river cleanup of its kind: the $1.3 billion fix for widespread chemical contamination of the Fox River. Over two decades later, co-authors P. David Allen II, US. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist (retired) and Susan Campbell, former environmental reporter for the Green bay Press Gazette, released the book Paper Valley: The Fight for the Fox River Cleanup (Wayne State University Press: April 2023). They will moderate a panel discussion on the history of the hard-fought cleanup through its completion in 2020.

Panelists:

• Eric Genrich, Mayor of Green Bay
• Jim Hahnenberg, Remedial Project Manager, Fox River, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1997-2016
• William Hartwig, Regional Director, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Great Lakes/Big Rivers Region, 1995-2003
• Michael Kraft, Professor Emeritus, Political Science and Public and Environmental Affairs, Herbert Fisk Johnson Professor of Environmental Studies Emeritus, UW-Green Bay
• Robert Woessner, former journalist, Opinion Page Editor, Training Editor, Green Bay Press-Gazette, 1964-2000