Existing-home sales expanded 3.1% in January to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.00 million. Median existing-home sales price climbed 5.1% from January 2023 to $379,100 – the seventh consecutive month of year-over-year price gains.

Sawdust from wood pellet manufacturing facilities in North Carolina has reportedly blown onto nearby residents’ homes and caused health problems.

In 2022, Maryland-based Enviva was riding high. For the second year in a row, revenue topped $1 billion, up 24% from two years prior. In April of that year, stocks hit a peak of $87 per share, and multiyear contracts were signed with customers across the European Union, United Kingdom, Japan and South Korea.Enviva, the world's largest bioenergy firm in the world, dominated the global market for wood pellets used by the energy industry.

35,000 seedlings have already been planted in the program's first year.

The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) is helping lead the climate-change charge through cutting-edge research to develop new materials, analysis tools and design guidance specifications.

The Decoratives Hardwoods Association is making available the American National Standard for Due Diligence in Procuring/Sourcing Legal Timber.

The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Air Quality (DAQ) has issued a Title V air quality permit to Dura-Supreme, LLC – Statesville. The permit will allow the company to construct and operate a wood cabinet manufacturing facility in Iredell County.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service is making nearly $50 million in grant funding available for proposals that "support crucial links between resilient, healthy forests, strong rural economies and jobs in the forestry sector." This funding, the department said, will spark innovation, create new markets for wood products and renewable wood energy, expand processing capacity, and help tackle the climate crisis.

As part of EPA’s effort to oversee industrial stormwater, EPA targeted inspections of predominant industries covered by discharge permits. An Oregon company was fined nearly $50,000 for water act violations.

SEATTLE – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Oct. 5 that Clearwater Forest Industries LLC of Kooskia, Idaho, will pay $23,950 for violations of Section 402 of the Clean Water Act.