Senate Panel Advances Wildfire Bill Slammed as Timber Industry Giveaway

Senate Panel Advances Wildfire Bill Slammed as Timber Industry Giveaway

💡Share this post on X and Bluesky!A Republican-controlled Senate committee voted last week to advance the bipartisan Fix Our Forests Act, a bill that would expedite logging in national forests by limiting environmental reviews and lawsuits. While lumber-heavy industries and business trade associations praise the move as a step toward preventing wildfires, environmentalists call it a corporate giveaway that would throw open millions of acres of …