{"id":15612,"date":"2012-03-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20120305-03n"},"modified":"2012-03-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T22:00:00","slug":"obama-biobased-procurement-directive-sidelines-wood-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/obama-biobased-procurement-directive-sidelines-wood-products\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama biobased procurement directive &#8220;sidelines&rdquo; wood products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>The American Wood Council (AWC) has complained that wood products are losing out in a new federal government procurement directive.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>AWC\u2019s response follows president Obama\u2019s recent memorandum directing the government to increase procurement of biobased products.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The unfortunate irony is that USDA\u2019s regulation, referenced in the president\u2019s memo, will exclude most wood products \u2013 which are nearly all 100% biobased \u2013 from the biobased programmes,\u201d said AWC president Robert Glowinski.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This exclusion prevents wood products manufacturing facilities around the country from participating in the USDA biobased programmes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The wood products industry supports thousands of sustainable jobs in this country, and our products deserve to be recognised within USDA\u2019s biobased programmes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>The American Wood Council (AWC) has complained that wood products are losing out in a new federal government procurement directive.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>AWC&rsquo;s response follows president<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[3223],"class_list":["post-15612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-american-wood-council"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15612"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=15612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}