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Got Paper? Checking Up on the Paper “Check-Off” Program

Today is the bi-monthly meeting of the Paper and Packaging Board, or Paper Check-off. It’s a new initiative by the U.S. pulp and paper industry to encourage Americans and others to buy more paper and counter declining domestic consumption and its impact on sales. The Environmental Paper Network is the only civil society organisation monitoring […]

USDA Considers Deregulation for 1st Genetically Engineered Forest Tree

by Will Bennington, for Global Justice Ecology Project The USDA is accepting public comments on a request by GE tree company ArborGen to commercially sell hundreds of millions of freeze tolerant genetically engineered eucalyptus trees annually for vast plantations across Texas, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina. Government approval of GE eucalyptus trees would set a […]