Creosote Council Blog
Report: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Creosote-Treated Wood vs. Non-Treated Wood Materials
Stephen T. Smith, P.E., authored an article on the cost-benefit analysis of creosote-treated wood compared to non-treated wood materials. The introduction is extracted here: Creosote-treated wood products have been a vital part of our nation’s physical infrastructure for more than a century. Because they are so cost effective, wood products such as railway ties, cross ties, and bridge timbers, utility poles, and marine and foundation piling that are pressure- treated with creosote continue to...
Animation: Pressure Treated Wood
The pressure-treated wood process is explained in this animation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY4XumZANv4
Creosote: Four Decades of EPA Review – and Continuous Federal Registration
For almost 70 years, coal tar-derived creosote has been federally registered for use as a wood preservative. During the past 40 years, the risks and benefits of creosote, like those of other major industrial wood preservatives, have been reevaluated by U.S. EPA in three successive and comprehensive review processes - Special Review, Reregistration Review, and, currently, Registration Review. These reviews have resulted in an updated and expanded scientific database for creosote, and improved...
Video: Creosote Council – Proper Use of Creosote When Pressure Treating Wood
This video, "Proper Use of Creosote When Pressure Treating Wood," is a production of the Creosote Council. https://vimeo.com/17291899 The Creosote Council is a non-profit, tax-exempt, non-standard setting, product stewardship organization composed of the principal registrants of creosote in the United States. As part of its product stewardship role, the Council also represents North American creosote wood treaters on legislative and regulatory issues. The Council serves as a national and...
Reapproval of Creosote Signaled by EPA
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced its scientifically based determination approving creosote for continued use as a FIFRA wood preservative to pressure-treat railroad crossties, utility poles, marine and foundation piling, timber and other wood products. EPA’s Reregistration Eligibility Decision (RED) was announced in a Federal Register notice published on Nov. 19, 2008. Members of the Creosote Council spent more than $12 million conducting state-of-the-art health and safety...