Published by the Forest Industry Network By / James McCarten, The Canadian Press WASHINGTON — Canada’s international trade minister says she got no warning from her American counterpart before the United States proposed doubling its duties on Canadian softwood lumber. Mary Ng told a House of Commons committee hearing that U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai did […]
Published by the Forest Industry Network By Carey L. Biron HALIFAX, North Carolina, June 7 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A s a young man, James Baker left his hometown in North Carolina and forgot about the small farm and patch of woodland he and his seven brothers would later inherit. “After high school and college, […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Answers to questions about the current situation in California and the Western half of the United States. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/article/drought-california-western-united-states.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The decision blocks, for now, oil and gas drilling in one of the largest tracts of undeveloped wilderness in the United States. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/01/climate/biden-drilling-arctic-national-wildlife-refuge.html
Published by the Forest Industry Network By Emily Cureton (OPB) The United States Forest Service is seeking a major budget increase this year. President Joe Biden’s preliminary budget blueprint includes a $1.7 billion increase for the federal agency managing public lands, around 35% above what it got last year, according to a spokesperson for Democratic U.S. Senator […]
In its review of the proposed Kansas City Southern merger with another Class I railroad, the American Chemistry Council (ACC) and its member companies are calling on the Surface Transportation Board (STB) to address a series of potential harmful issues before approving any agreement. Dramatic operational changes and consolidation of the freight rail industry over […]
Published by the Environmental Defense Fund Asian American and Pacific Islander communities are valuable and necessary allies in the fight to address the climate crisis — allies who could wield the kind of political power key to environmental progress. Read the full article at: https://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/653320026/0/edf/blogs/feed~Im-an-Asian-American-environmentalist-My-story-is-a-familiar-one
When we think of U.S. jobs supported by overseas trade, our minds may naturally gravitate toward jobs that are made possible by exports. Selling more U.S.-made goods overseas is indeed a proven job-creator – and that’s true of the domestic chemicals industry as well – but it’s important not to overlook the role that imports […]
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON (May 21, 2021) — As part of President Biden’s commitments to multilateralism and action on the climate crisis, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael S. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-administrator-regan-presses-action-climate-and-environmental-justice-g7-environment
Published by the Forest Industry Network By / John Bleasby Mass Timber Construction (MTC) is touted as construction’s wonder material. It’s sustainable, renewable, light and easy to assemble, and attractive, say its promoters. Life Cycle Analyses (LCA) investigating GHG emissions appear to overwhelmingly favour wood over concrete and steel. Even the recent doubling of wood […]
Published by the Forest Industry Network With a changing climate, fires in far northern forests that smolder throughout winter and erupt again in spring could become more common, a new study suggests. By / John Schwartz Zombie forest fires are on the rise. According to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, fires in far […]
Lots of questions. At last month’s (virtual) Plastics Recycling Conference, I participated on a panel that discussed public policies that could enable more plastics recycling. After last year’s (non-virtual) conference, I wrote that plastic makers were focused on how “the entire plastic value chain can move from the past’s linear model… to a new circular […]
AMP Robotics was recently honored as a finalist in Fast Company’s 2021 World-Changing Ideas Awards. The company’s groundbreaking innovation is an artificial intelligence (AI) platform— a robot— designed to more efficiently sort plastic packaging at materials recovery facilities (MRFs) and other recycling facilities by running secondary sortation, a process that applies advanced automation enabled by AI to economically sort through low volumes of residue or mixed plastics […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment New data compiled by the E.P.A. shows how global warming is making life harder for Americans in myriad ways that threaten their health, safety and homes. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/12/climate/climate-change-epa.html
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON (May 12, 2021) — For the first time in four years, EPA is relaunching its Climate Change Indicators in the United States website for the public. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-relaunches-climate-indicators-website-showing-how-climate-change-impacting-peoples
Yes, it’s Infrastructure Week. Again! And, it couldn’t come soon enough. One of the few issues everyone in Washington and across the nation can agree on is that America’s aging and failing infrastructure is in desperate need of attention. Infrastructure is one of the few unifying issues in Congress that is on the must do […]
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON – With climate change affecting the intensity and frequency of precipitation across the U.S., EPA is helping the American public get ready for hurricane season by highlighting National Hurricane Preparedness Week, May 9-15, 2021. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-highlights-national-hurricane-preparedness-week
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment President Biden’s top diplomat said the United States would uphold international rules and “push back forcefully” against those who don’t, a sharp contrast to the Trump years. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/world/americas/blinken-china-russia-in-united-nations.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment National Park Service officials want to reduce the size of a herd that they say has damaged vegetation, archaeological sites and the water supply. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/us/grand-canyon-national-park-bison-hunting.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment A race is on to produce lithium in the United States, but competing projects are taking very different approaches to extracting the vital raw material. Some might not be very green. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/06/business/lithium-mining-race.html