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Clean Air
AF&PA supports clean air regulations, such as MACT and National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS), which are cost-effective in achieving their statutory goals, use performance-based standards to encourage innovation, rely on sound economic assessments, and are implemented through market-based mechanisms.
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Endangered Species Act
AF&PA supports the goal of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) to protect endangered and threatened species and recognizes that ESA implementation can affect every aspect of the forest products industry.
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Forest Certification
AF&PA members recognize climate change as an issue of significant global concern. AF&PA advocates environmentally responsible science-based policies that balance environmental, social, and economic elements.
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Forestry & Fiber Supply
AF&PA believes that forests are essential to a healthy environment—sustaining vital plants and wildlife, filtering our water and air, and mitigating climate change through carbon sequestration.
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Freedom to Mail
AF&PA believes in preserving the Freedom to Mail for all users of USPS and that a government-run Do Not Mail registry is unnecessary.
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Product & Packaging Fees
AF&PA opposes government-imposed fees on products and packaging as a means to promote recycling and waste reduction. Such fees unnecessarily increase costs for consumers, are regressive in nature, and create unintended consequences in the free flow of recoverable commodities.
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Product Stewardship
AF&PA works to ensure that chemical and product-related legislation and regulations are protective of health, cost-effective, and based on scientifically sound approaches, thereby mitigating adverse regulatory and marketplace implications.
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Trade
AF&PA supports free but fair trade policies. It supports the elimination or significant reduction of foreign tariffs and non-tariff barriers that distort the international market, increases the cost of doing business abroad, and limits the industry’s export potential.
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Transportation
AF&PA favors increasing the national truck weight maximum to achieve less congestion, decreased emissions, improved highway safety, increased efficiency, less road “wear and tear,” and improved global competitiveness. AF&PA also supports railroad antitrust reform and Surface Transportation Board (STB) improvements to ensure competition and protect rail customers from railroad monopoly power.
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Water
AF&PA supports the goals of the CWA to maintain and improve the nation’s water quality.
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Wood Market Access
AF&PA policy maintains that wood products should enjoy unrestricted access to the marketplace. Any limits imposed through codes, standards, regulations, or guidelines should not discriminate between competing products and must recognize the beneficial performance characteristics that wood provides.
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Workplace Health & Safety
AF&PA’s preferred approach is to work with safety and health agencies in identifying and addressing issues in a proactive and cooperative manner—like the Alliance with OSHA and through voluntary compliance mechanisms where possible.
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