Good evening,

Please help us oppose Senator McSally's (R-AZ) push to subsidize biomass logging on National Forest lands in the West here: https://forms.gle/9KrnPo1qaGw6gGcZ8. The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests & Mining is holding a legislative hearing this Wednesday on this bill, so we'll be circulating this to committee members and submitting it for the record that morning. 

S.4063 would accelerate logging of national forests without meaningful limitation (does not apply to wilderness areas or wilderness study areas) by giving away trees on public lands to logging and biomass companies, and creating a new Fund from timber sale receipts that would solely be used to further subsidize the collection, harvest, storage and transportation of trees from national forests to be burned for biomass energy. 

This bill ignores current science and would promote and fund an industry that is harmful to our communities, forests and climate all while failing to stop weather-driven wildfires and often creating conditions that make fires burn more intensely and spread faster. And please, don't let Sen. McSally's exit deter you from signing as both sides of the aisle have been pushing biomass. So we must help them understand why they need to drop biomass from the clean energy conversation.

Please join us today, thanks!