by Web Editor | May 27, 2016 | News
Regulation of worker exposure to wood dust moves another step closer in California, where the state Occupational Health & Safety Administration (OSHA) closed a comments period on May 19. The state’s effort to regulate exposure to wood dust began in 2010. The...
by Web Editor | May 25, 2016 | News
The Department of Agriculture (USDA) failed to justify the amount of money it collects from U.S. lumber companies to support an industry marketing campaign, a federal judge ruled. Resolute Forest Products sued the Department of Agriculture in December 2014,...
by Web Editor | May 20, 2016 | News
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell today announced over $8.5 million to expand and accelerate technologies and strategies that promote the use of wood in commercial construction, heat and power generation, and other wood...
by Web Editor | May 10, 2016 | The Issues
Article by Dan Shell, Managing Editor Sluggish is the only way to describe it: the stop-and-start nature of the ongoing economic recovery, technically since mid-2009 according to economists’ definitions of recession and recovery. Recent headlines only three days apart...
by Web Editor | May 9, 2016 | News
A new bill from Congress would establish performance driven research for advancing tall wood building construction in the U.S. The “Timber Innovation Act” would: · Authorize the Tall Wood Building Prize Competition through the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)...
by Web Editor | May 2, 2016 | News
Green Building Council Gives LEED Credentials To Contentious Wood Certification That LEED office building where you’re sitting right now reading this may be built with the environment in mind, but if it has wood, it may or may not have been legally sourced....
