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WASHINGTON, DC, March 23, 2018 (Press Release) -American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) President and CEO Donna Harman thanked Congress for reaffirming that federal regulatory policy should reflect the carbon-neutrality of forest-based renewable biomass. The fiscal year 2018 Omnibus Appropriations bill, which has passed the House and Senate, includes legislative language to that effect.
Read moreAMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, March 21, 2018 (Press Release) -AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals is partnering with three groups in Sweden to explore the opportunities for producing green hydrogen and 'electrofuels' using renewable electricity. The partners are RISE Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE), forestry group Södra and packaging materials company BillerudKorsnäs; the study is also supported by the Swedish Energy Agency.
Read moreBAODING, China, March 14, 2018 (PRNewswire) -Orient Paper, Inc. ("Orient Paper" or the "Company"), a leading manufacturer and distributor of diversified paper products in North China, today announced that it resumed production at its manufacturing facilities on March 14, 2018. Production had been suspended since late January due to a government-mandated restriction on the supply of natural gas.
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Read moreWASHINGTON, DC, March 13, 2018 (Press Release) -American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) President and CEO Donna Harman issued the following statement regarding the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) announcement of New Source Review (NSR) emissions accounting guidelines. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt announced the agency’s new approach on Tuesday, March 13.
Read moreREADING, PA, March 5, 2018 (Local News) -The pulsing sound of a power plant is one that residents near the 800 block of South Street in Reading have gotten very used to.
"When the power plant is in full gear, we can hear it from our home, which is about eight blocks away," said Reading Councilwoman Marcia Goodman-Hinnershitz.
The plant was built in 2008 to supply power to the United Corrstack paper mill, but soon, the sound coming from the Evergreen Community Power Plant will stop.
Read morePORTLAND, ME, Feb. 23, 2018 (Portland Press Herald) -The company at the center of a controversy over a lucrative energy contract involving the University of Maine is withdrawing from negotiations.
Read moreBRUSSELS, Feb. 21, 2018 (Press Release) -Yesterday, the Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC) General Assembly came together to discuss the future of the bioeconomy. The event also saw BIC welcome 21* new industry Members, 35 new Associate Members and elect 8 new members to the BIC Board (see annex). Mat Quaedvlieg from SAPPI continues as Chair of the BIC Board during the next year.
Read moreESPOO, Finland, Feb. 19, 2018 (Press Release) -In his dissertation, Senior Scientist and M.Sc. (Eng.) Kristian Melin of VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed a modelling and evaluation method for identifying which biorefinery processes – of those being considered for development –will use raw materials most efficiently, reduce greenhouse gas emissions the most, or be most economical. The method can also accelerate the development of new bio-economic processes from laboratory to production scale.
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