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After federal investigators impound what they say is illegally imported wood, a company’s chief executive gets a seat of honor in a joint congressional session in a swipe at President Obama.

Investors in Sino-Forest, the Chinese timber company rocked by allegations of fraud, have accused the company’s chief executive and top financial officer of receiving backdated stock options, according to a new lawsuit.

A World Wildlife Fund seeks to protect vulnerable forests by promoting global trade in sustainable timber. But an investigative group says that the effort lacks transparency and accountability and that its monitoring and enforcement is seriously inadeq…

The city’s efforts to stop using endangered tropical hardwoods as it replaces the Coney Island Boardwalk’s planks raise aesthetic, pragmatic and linguistic issues.