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In testimony before the California Senate Committee on Environmental Quality, the American Forest & Paper Association called for the legislature to reconsider efforts to create unnecessary barriers for consumers to receive paper receipts at point-of-purchase, except upon request.

America's nearly 1.3 million square miles of forests absorb about 15 percent of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions annually, storing carbon in growing trees, ecosystems and wood products.

Cascades will pay a cash consideration of US$207 million, financed by the Company's credit facilities.

Multi-Color Corporation announced that the anticipated acquisition of the Company by an affiliate of Platinum Equity, a leading private equity firm, is now complete.

Chemours, for example, claims that it faces more than $200 million in costs to address environmental issues at a North Carolina manufacturing facility, 100 times DuPont's estimated $2 million maximum liability.

Park Falls mill could reopen within two weeks, re-employ 89 employees.

The trade war between the US and has impacted US exporters of forest products to China.

Metsä Board - part of the Metsä Group - has announced the start of a new WKL Common Stock Service to help streamline and enhance the order-delivery processes of white kraftliners in continental Europe.

Southeast Asia starts to dump single-use plastics.

Rey Moore - one of the men convicted of killing paperworker Tom Monfils in 1992 - was released on parole Tuesday.

Sappi Limited (Sappi) is pleased to announce that we have become an International Stakeholder member of the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest CertificationTM (PEFCTM).

The company behind Kleenex has avoided punishment in the Federal Court on accusations it misled customers by claiming its moist towelettes are flushable.

Authorities in West Virginia have identified the man who died in a logging accident this past week.

DS Smith said it had completed the sale of two packaging businesses in France and Portugal to International Paper for €63m (£56m).

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Jaakko Nikkilä has been appointed Executive Vice President responsible for UPM Specialty Papers business area as of 1 July 2019.

CSS Industries, Inc. announced the resignation of Keith W. Pfeil as the Company's Chief Financial Officer, effective August 2, 2019.

Canfor Pulp Products Inc. announced it will be implementing phased summer curtailments in July and August at its Intercontinental and Northwood NBSK pulp mills in Prince George, British Columbia (BC).

Cascades has won the auction to acquire certain of the assets of Orchids Paper Products in proceedings before the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.

IT Tech Packaging, Inc. announced that Hebei Baoding Dongfang Paper Milling Company Limited, the major operating entity of the Company, has entered into an acquisition Agreement with Hebei Tengsheng Paper Co. Ltd., pursuant to which Dongfang Paper shall acquire 100% equity interests in Tengsheng Paper and all right, title and interest in and to all assets owned by Tengsheng Paper.

Facing an Oct. 30 deadline to complete their merger, printing giants Quad/Graphics and LSC Communications are asking a federal judge to move quickly to resolve a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit that would block the deal.

The plan includes a permanent closure of Kitee sawmill and production increase to Varkaus.

Vermont announced that it's filed lawsuits against DuPont, 3M and other chemical companies for damages it says was caused to groundwater, drinking water and other natural resources by the contamination of a class of potentially toxic chemicals.

A reception was recently held at Georgia-Pacific's Brewton mill to honor Glen Freeman and his 60 years of service to the facility. Freeman's first day at the mill was June 24, 1959, and of the more than 30,000 Georgia-Pacific employees worldwide, he holds the record as the longest serving associate.

Workers at one of the Pacific Northwest's largest paper mills are worried Oregon's cap and trade bill will mean job loss and industry downsizing in a field that is already seeing cuts and companies moving overseas.