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Research into wood recycling gears up in Louisiana (12-23-07)
http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071223/NEWS01/712230332/1060/NEWS01
New Jersy officials push bill to ban creosote (6-15-07)
EPA Rejects Carcinogenic Wood Preservative for Home Use (1-9-07)
CanWel to Acquire Five Pressure Treating Businesses (10-2-06)
Wood products manufacturer expanding its reach (1-16-06)
http://www.gazetteextra.com/universalforestprods011606.asp
Don't burn new types of treated lumber (11-26-05)
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/living/home/13260591.htm
Timber Treatment Technologies and Huttig Building Products Announce National Distribution Agreement for award-winning TimberSIL(TM) Treated Lumber (11-8-05)
Treated pine timber banned in Australia (3-16-05)
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12561751-29277,00.html
New Concerns With Pressure-Treated Wood (11-22-04)
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/news/7oys/112104_7oys_wood_damage.html
Global methyl bromide, etc. update (11-29-04)
Playground equipment being treated to keep kids safe (10-15-04)
http://www.northpeel.com/br/news/story/2273514p-2634969c.html
More on deck-wood fasteners (9-30-04)
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/living/9798849.htm
UK Copes With CCA Restrictions (7-9-04)
http://www.nzforestry.co.nz/nzf_news.asp?articleid=2110
Class Action Rejected in CCA Treated Wood Case; Court Finds Plaintiffs' Portrayal of Facts Erroneous (3-25-04)
Using pressure-treated wood in vegetable gardens (3-25-04)
http://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/news/stories/20040325/localnews/145146.html
New lumber treatment rapidly corrodes fasteners (3-13-04)
http://www.indystar.com/articles/4/128799-3244-053.html
Builders Seeing Blue (3-17-04)
http://web.theparisnews.com/story.lasso?wcd=12185
Businesses adjust to fed lumber ban (1-1-04)
Safety concerns cut down treated lumber used by millions (12-28-03)
Koppers Inc. -- We're still here (12-30-03)
Will alternatives to CCA-treated wood eat away standard metal fasteners? (12-9-03)
http://www.builderonline.com/article-builder.asp?channelID=55§ionID=28&articleID=29947
Treated lumber in for changes (12-26-03)
Arsenic-laced play sets pose threat (12-1-03)
Playground equipment ban rejected (11-4-03)
Class action denied in CCA case; Home Depot win vindicates CCA-treated wood (7-29-03)
http://enews.cwc.ca/news/2003/us/show_article2.php?id=2707&l=07_29_us.php
Jungle gym fever (7-26-03)
http://www.canadaeast.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20030726/DGLIFE13/207260607/-1/LIFE
Agencies to maintain pressure-treated picnic tables (6-23-03)
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ny--picnictables0623jun23,0,1306306.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire
Maine to outlaw CCA-treated lumber (6-9-03)
http://www.homechannelnews.com/story/?ID=2877
Assessment of Potential Health Risks from Exposures to CCA-Treated Utility Poles (5-29-03)
http://www.preservedwood.com/safety/research_hhrapaper.html
Mixed messages sent on safety of playground wood (5-23-03)
http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/local/5919372.htm
Federal Court Rejects Class Action Status for CCA-Treated Wood Lawsuit (2-27-03)
http://www.preservedwood.com/news/030227court.html
Labor, environmental groups and victims sue EPA to ban arsenic and dioxin-laden wood preservatives (12-10-02)
http://enews.cwc.ca/news/2002/us/show_article2.php?id=1645&l=12_10_us.php
MASCO CORPORATION ANNOUNCES RECORD THIRD QUARTER SALES, LITIGATION SETTLEMENT CHARGE AND GIVES FOURTH QUARTER EARNINGS GUIDANCE (11-12-02)
New Zealand timber merchants gear for arsenic backlash (11-11-02)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2106966a13,00.html
$107.5 million settlement reached over wood-sealant damage (10-31-02)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/134566355_behr31m.html
MASCO ANNOUNCES PRELIMINARY SETTLEMENT OF BEHR CLASS ACTION LITIGATION (10-29-02)
Florida Medical Experts Confirm Safety Of CCA-Treated Wood (8-6-02)
http://www.preservedwood.com/news/020730cca-docs.html
Whitman Announces Transition from Consumer Use of Treated Wood Containing Arsenic
http://www.epa.gov/epahome/headline_021202.htm

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