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The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) today released its April 2020 Printing-Writing Monthly report.

U.S. Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia released a final rule allowing retirement plan administrators to primarily deliver notice and access of plan information to participants via electronic sources. American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) President and CEO Heidi Brock issued the…

WASHINGTON – The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) today released its April 2020 Containerboard Monthly report.

WASHINGTON – The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) today released its April 2020 Packaging Papers & Specialty Packaging Monthly report.

WASHINGTON – The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) today released its April 2020 Boxboard Monthly report.

WASHINGTON – The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) today released the 60th Annual Survey of Paper, Paperboard and Pulp Capacity, reporting that while overall U.S. paper and paperboard capacity declined 0.5 percent in 2019, some sectors rose, including tissue paper, containerboard…

WASHINGTON – The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) today announced 66.2 percent of paper consumed in the United States was recovered for recycling in 2019. Over the last decade, the U.S. paper industry achieved a consistently high recycling rate, meeting or exceeding 63 percent…

The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) President and CEO Heidi Brock issued the following statement regarding the U.S. paper and wood products industry’s record-high levels of tissue production in February and March in response to unprecedented demand from COVID-19: …

WASHINGTON – Earlier today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued a 2-1 decision remanding the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 2017 Risk and Technology Review (RTR) of the existing Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) standards for Pulp Mill…

OLYMPIA — A coalition of employer trade groups today applauded the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) decision to withdraw certain 2016 water quality standards for Washington, thereby confirming rigorous clean water standards developed by the State of Washington’s Department of Ecology…

WASHINGTON – The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) today released its March 2020 Boxboard Monthly report.

WASHINGTON – The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) today released its March 2020 Packaging Papers and Specialty Packaging Monthly report.