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Senate Proposal Threatens to Roll Back Forest Safeguards and Authorize Harmful Logging Activities

The Senate’s Energy and Natural Resources Committee is weighing a proposed bill which discounts NEPA and could have detrimental consequences to our nation’s forest system

The Tongass National Forest, Alaska

The Tongass National Forest, Alaska.  Earleliason/iStock Photo

Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–June 23, 2016.  A Senate panel heard testimony today on a draft of the “Wildfire Budgeting, Response and Forest Management Act of 2016.”

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Below is a statement by Earthjustice’s Senior Legislative Counsel Rebecca Judd on the proposal:

“We have serious concerns…

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