Sentences with phrase «u.s. paper industry»

Verle Sutton, who co-wrote the MediaIdeas report and is a veteran of the U.S. paper industry, thinks producers should follow Domtar's lead and be more aggressive in telling the environmental story, «but the media doesn't take them too seriously.»

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Irish packaging group Smurfit Kappa has rejected an unsolicited bid approach from U.S. - based International Paper Co, saying the proposal «fails entirely» to reflect its growth prospects and attractive industry outlook.

The duties were fixed after the U.S. Department of Commerce followed up on a complaint made in February 2014 by a U.S. group representing the paper industry.

The U.S. Commerce Department should drop plans to move forward with a tariff on Canadian paper imports because it would place an «unfair and unwise burden» on the struggling newspaper industry, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said.

A U.S. Commerce Department decision to impose tariffs on Canadian paper imports is stoking concerns at American newspapers about financial strains facing the news industry.

A U.S. sugar industry trade group appears to have pulled the plug on a study that was producing animal evidence linking sucrose to disease nearly 50 years ago, researchers argue in a paper publishing on November 21 in the open access journal PLOS Biology.

The Trump administration released its 2018 federal budget proposal for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Mel Watt and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin testified before the U.S. Senate on potential GSE reform, USMI and numerous other housing industry groups voiced their support for the nomination of Pam Patenaude to serve as Deputy Secretary of HUD, and several third party groups released white papers on access to affordable mortgage credit and housing finance reform.

Also participating on the call: Cal Dooley, American Chemistry Council (ACC); Donna Harman, American Forest & Paper Association; Kenneth E. Bentsen Jr., Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association; Linda Dempsey, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), Jonathan Gold, National Retail Federation; and Rob Mulligan, U.S. Council for International Business.

The paper finds that just 1.2 percent overall methane emissions are attributable to the U.S. natural gas industry, based on the most recent EPA methane emission estimate of 1.2 percent of production, which is in line with a number of studies that find low U.S. leakage rates between 1 and 1.8 percent.

Based on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Annual Greenhouse Gas Index (AGGI), the 2016 Global Carbon Project's Methane Budget and the 2017 EPA Greenhouse Gas Inventory, the paper finds that methane emissions from the U.S. natural gas industry account for just 1.2 percent of 2016 global methane emissions and 0.2 percent of total radiative forcing.

Processes such as carbon recycling and generation, already in wide use by the pulp and paper industry, help minimize the amount of waste produced by businesses and could lower greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. by close to «300 million metric tons on an annual basis,» according to McCarl, when combined with sound forest management.

The white paper, The U.S. Housing Market: Current Conditions and Policy Considerations, calls for increased lending to creditworthy home buyers and more loan modifications, mortgage refinancings, and short sales to reduce the rising inventory of foreclosed homes and help stabilize and revitalize the housing industry; an approach long recommended by NAR to help spur the housing market recovery.