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WASHINGTON, D.C. — In SEC filings released this morning, Lumber Liquidators revealed that the Department of Justice is contemplating criminal charges under the Lacey Act for importing illegally harvested wood. Lumber Liquidators’ stock value dropped by nearly 20 percent immediately following the news. Lumber Liquidators has been under federal investigation since September 2013, when the Environmental […]

EIA’s work in the Congo Basin involves collaboration with civil society, indigenous communities, and government to ensure that palm oil development in the region is conducted in a fair and sustainable way. The document below is a resource used in this collaboration. As developers are looking to the Congo Basin as the next hotspot for […]

A Russian supplier to Lumber Liquidators convicted of organized crime.

  The evidence against Lumber Liquidators, the U.S. wood products company currently under investigation by U.S. federal authorities for alleged violations of the U.S. Lacey Act, continues to accumulate. Senior executives of the Russian timber company “Beryozoviy,” which supplied high value timber to Lumber Liquidators, were found guilty by a Russian court in December 2014 […]

This week, headliner musicians released a video to shed light on how illegal trade in precious woods, used in instruments and other wood products, devastates global forests. Driven by the connection between their music and the tonewoods which have often been central to the creation of music, these artists joined EIA and REVERB in demanding […]

Artists including Michael Franti, Jason Mraz, Razia Said, and members of Maroon 5, Linkin Park, and Guster lend their voices to the issue in new videoLOS ANGELES – Citing environmental and human rights concerns, musicians have joined the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and environmental non-profit REVERB to call for legal and sustainable sourcing of wood […]