{"id":16436,"date":"2013-03-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20130311-08n"},"modified":"2013-03-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-10T22:00:00","slug":"congress-again-seeks-to-alter-usda-definition-of-bio-based-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/congress-again-seeks-to-alter-usda-definition-of-bio-based-materials\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress again seeks to alter USDA definition of bio-based materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>In an effort to correct what they see as a U.S. Department of Agriculture oversight, U.S. senators Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) and Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), along with Congressmen Glenn &#8220;G.T.\u201d Thompson (R-Pa.) and Kurt Schrader (D-Ore.), have introduced the Forest Products Fairness Act of 2013. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>The bill is intended to include forest products in the USDA\u2019s Federal Biobased Products Preferred Procurement Program (FB4P).<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8230; Full text: <a href=\"http:\/\/hardwoodfloorsmag.com\/editors\/blog\/default.aspx?id=1824\" >hardwoodfloorsmag.com\/editors\/blog\/default.aspx?id=1824<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tags: Farm Bill, support, promotion, market, wood products<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>In an effort to correct what they see as a U.S. Department of Agriculture oversight, U.S. senators Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) and Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), along<\/b><\/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":[4664,8400],"class_list":["post-16436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-hardwood-federation","supplier-usda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16436","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=16436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16436"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=16436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}