Hello, 2020! As always, I like to do a blog index, sorted by topic and then listed chronologically. As before, a few posts will fit into different sections and may be listed twice. Hope you find this useful!
We will start, as always with the biggest set, posts on Formaldehyde, Prop65 and other chemical-related topics:
Formaldehyde, Indoor Air Quality, Prop65, Chemophobia and more…
- CARB Labels on Flooring (5/16/17)
- Greatest Hits 1 – Formaldehyde (5/23/17)
- Greatest Hits 2 – Chemophobia (5/30/17)
- Formaldehyde Fun Begins Again (8/22/17)
- Canada & Formaldehyde – Update (8/29/17)
- CARB Does NOT Equal TSCA (9/5/17)
- TSCA Timing (9/12/17)
- Grass joins TSCA (9/26/17)
- Greatest Hits 7 – Indoor Air Quality (11/7/17)
- Increased TSCA Uncertainty (12/12/17)
- Formaldehyde Experts, pt 1 (2/12/18)
- Formaldehyde Experts, pt 2 (2/19/18)
- Ready or Not, TSCA is Coming (2/27/18)
- Terminology Time: The Acronyms of FER (4/3/18)
- Upcoming ALL STAR Panel on TSCA at the NWFA Convention (3/13/18)
- Whereas TSCA Timing is Finalized (3/20/18)
- Name, Rank and Date: TSCA Labels for Flooring (3/27/18)
- Just FER Fun – This is the Week to Have All Your Questions Answered! (4/9/18)
- CARB Compared to TSCA (4/24/18)
- The End of the White Box (4/30/18)
- How to Order FER Production Going Forward (5/8/18)
- NWFA Formaldehyde Presentations (5/15/18)
- Mini-Index: FER Collection (7/24/18)
- Validate Your Certificates (8/7/18)
- Opportunity to Listen in on Rule Making (6/26/18)
- Prop! 65! Label! Exclamations! (7/17/18)
- Why do we fear what we fear? (8/21/18)
- What is the Next Chemical? (8/28/18)
- New TSCA Q&A (2/12/19)
- TSCA Transition Period Ends (3/19/19)
- Formaldehyde Under Investigation Again (4/2/19)
- DIY TSCA (7/9/19)
- First Major TSCA Enforcement (9/10/19)
- Asking the Right Questions (9/17/19)
Then let’s look at posts with definitions:
Terminology Time
- Terminology Time – CARB (4/18/17)
- Terminology Time – TSCA (4/25/17)
- Terminology Time – CAN/CSA‑0160 (5/2/17)
- Terminology Time – CA 01350 or “Thirteen Fifty” (5/19/17)
- Terminology Time – TVOC (10/31/17)
- Terminology Time – The Acronyms of FER (4/3/18)
- Terminology Time – HTS (10/2/18)
- Terminology Time: LEED (5/21/19)
Next, how about posts on Lacey and Legality?
Lacey and other Legality Laws and Issues
- Greatest Hits 3 – US Forests (6/13/17)
- Considering US Timber Theft – Nina Cornett Interview, pt 1
- Considering US Timber Theft – Nina Cornett Interview, pt 2
- Considering US Timber Theft – Nina Cornett Interview, pt 3
- Considering US Timber Theft – Nina Cornett Interview, pt 4
- Update on US Timber Laws: Kentucky Edition!
- Update on US Timber Laws: Virginia Edition!
- Update on US Timber Laws: Virginia Edition, pt2: Getting Personal
- Update on US Timber Laws: Virginia Edition, pt3: Crunching Numbers
- Update on US Timber Laws: Georgia Edition!
- Update on US Timber Law: Indiana Edition (6/20/17)
- US Forests: More Theft in the News (6/27/17)
- The Washington Forest Legality Week (9/19/17)
- A Key Difference Between the EUTR and Lacey (11/14/17)
- Compliance Work in China (11/21/17)
- Another Member of the Legal Wood Club (12/19/17)
- IWPA Due Care Training (1/23/18)
- US Government Supports Due Care Training (1/30/18)
- Greatest Hits 9 – Corrupted Statistics (3/6/18)
- NWFA Lacey Presentation (5/29/18)
- Minding your PPQs – APHIS Advice (10/9/18)
- Minding your PPQs – Some Quick Basic Biology (10/16/18)
- Minding your PPQs – and your SPPs… (10/23/18)
- Time Frames (11/13/18)
- Five Reports to Help International Buyers (11/20/18)
- Compliance Training in North Carolina (1/22/19)
- European FLEGT Resource (2/26/19)
- A Favorite Legality Resource (3/5/19)
- A Resource of Rules and Regulators (3/12/19)
- CITES Considers Adding Ipé (3/26/19)
- Look Out, Evil Doers, We’re Getting a XyloTron! (4/9/19)
- It’s All About the Reference Data (4/16/19)
- Exploring the LEED Timber Traceability Pilot Credit Category, pt. 1: Declare, Map and Test (5/28/19
- Exploring the LEED Timber Traceability Pilot Credit Category, pt. 2: Creating a Program (6/4/19)
- Exploring the LEED Timber Traceability Pilot Credit Category, pt. 3: The Program in Practice (6/11/19)
The logical next grouping would be posts regarding forests, forestry and specific species around the world.
More on the Forests
- Pain in the Ash (10/17/17)
- Greatest Hits 3 – US Forests (6/13/17)
- Greatest Hits 6: Species Specific (10/24/17)
- Plantations Pros and Cons, pt1, the Cons
- Plantations Pros and Cons, pt2, the Pros
- Confucius or Confusion? What Acacia is this?
- Cork
- Trees are a Hot Topic—But I Bet Not in the Way You’re Thinking…
- FSC on US Forests (7/3/18)
- AHEC: A Heck of a Lot of Good Info! (6/12/18)
- What is a Tropical Forest? (12/18/18)
- Planting Oxygen (10/8/19)
- Planting Oxygen—in Detail (10/15/19)
- Trees Release/Concrete Eats, p1 (10/22/19)
- Trees Release/Concrete Eats, p2 (10/29/19)
Next come posts on technical topics—like finishing or hardness or DNA. Note that some of these are great resources for legality and forest monitoring.
Getting Technical
- Greatest Hit: The Green Nature of Factory Finishing (7/11/17)
- Future of Finishing (7/18/17)
- Greatest Hits 4: Getting Technical (8/15/17)
- Getting Technical: Stable isotope analysis, pt1
- Getting Technical: Stable isotope analysis, pt2
- Getting Technical: Your Wood’s DNA, pt 1
- Getting Technical: Your Wood’s DNA, pt 2
- Getting Technical: Wood Identification, pt 1: Getting Started
- Getting Technical: Wood Identification, pt 2: The Cells Themselves
- Getting Technical: Wood Identification, pt 3: Tropicals
- Greatest Hits 8 – Going Under and Into the Floor (12/5/17)
- Greatest Hits 10 – Wood Hardness (6/5/18)
- What is Janka?
- Variations in Results
- Comparing Species
- Janka vs Brinell
- Resources
- What about Monnin hardness?
- Aren’t You GLAD We Have New Forest Monitoring Options? Pt 1 (7/23/19)
- GLAD for Forest Monitoring Options! Pt 2 (7/30/19)
- GLAD for Forest Monitoring Options! Pt 3 (8/6/19)
- GLAD for Forest Monitoring Options! Pt 4 (8/13/19)
- Governmental Use of Science and Technology (8/20/19)
I restructured a bit from last year. So I’ve combined Compliance Tools with posts on other business and trade issues—you’ll also find info on Customs rulings or tax issues here:
Compliance Tools, plus other Business and Trade Issues
- Compliance is Like a Good Roof (6/6/17)
- Are you Making the Most of Technology? (7/25/17)
- Third Party Tech Support, pt. 1 (8/1/17)
- Third Party Tech Support, pt. 2 (8/8/17)
- Customs and Officially Securing Your Supply Chain (10/3/17)
- Tariff Time (9/25/18)
- Saving Time and Saving for All Time (12/4/18)
- Binding Rulings (12/11/18)
- Census Data Offers More Than Just a Head Count (4/30/19)
- SALT: Not Just For Seasoning, pt 1 (6/18/19)
- SALT: Spicing up Your Tax Environment, pt 2: Do you have a Nexus? (6/25/19)
- SALT: Additional Concepts You Need to Know, pt 3 (7/2/19)
- Way What? (7/16/19)
- Asking the Right Questions (9/17/19)
- Flooring Tariff Exclusion Announced (9/24/19)
And we’ll wrap it up with “everything else,” those posts that don’t fit anywhere else. These include my usual philosophical ramblings and political commentary, plus those fun trade show posts!
Miscellaneous Topics and Philosophical Rants
- Back to Blogging (4/4/17)
- Importance of Associations (4/11/17)
- Happy Fourth of July (7/4/17)
- Greatest Hits 5 – Building Green (10/10/17)
- Thankful for Globalization (11/28/17)
- Happy Holidays! (12/26/17)
- Happy New Year! Industry Resolutions (1/2/18)
- Congrats on a Successful Convention (4/17/18)
- More NWFA Pics (5/22/18)
- See You at Surfaces (and Other Conventions?) (1/16/18)
- Surfaces Visuals (2/6/18)
- See you in Atlanta (8/14/18)
- Return to my old stomping grounds… (7/10/18)
- Speak Up! (7/31/18)
- I Voted, Will You? (10/30/18)
- Election Day (11/6/18)
- Greatest Hits 11 – Philosophical Ponderings (9/4/18)
- The Rule of Law (9/11/18)
- Taking the Call (9/18/18)
- Wood Forever (1/29/19)
- Building Tall with Wood (2/5/19)
- Scholarship Opportunity for Environmental Studies (2/19/19)
- Next week in Texas! (4/23/19)
- Thank You for a Great Expo! (5/7/19)
- More Power! (5/14/19)
- Hardwood Federation Fly-In 2019 (10/1/19)
- No Typing for a While (11/5/19)
- Playing Pirate (11/12/19)
As always, thanks for reading! This is going to be an interesting year for sure… (Michael’s wish/curse for me, yes?)
Elizabeth Baldwin is Environmental Compliance Officer for Metropolitan Hardwood Floors. In her 25 plus year career in the wood industry has visited over 70 countries and hundreds of facilities of all sizes and types. She describes herself as a “jack of all wood trades.” Familiar with jungles of all sorts–having camped out along the Amazon and walked the halls of Congress–she blogs for the NWFA on both environmental and regulatory issues for educational and informational purposes only. Her blog is not intended and should not be construed as legal advice. Persons seeking legal advice on compliance with CARB, TSCA, the U.S. Lacey Act or any other law, regulation, or compliance requirement/claim should consult with the regulatory agency directly and/or a qualified legal professional.