Posted on 11/20/2018 12:11:58 PM PST by detective
As catastrophic wildfires cut a deadly swath through California, President Trump has demanded more aggressive forest management — and as luck would have it, Rep. Bruce Westerman has a bill to do exactly that.
What’s more, the Resilient Federal Forest Act of 2017 already has passed the House. The problem: The bill has almost no chance of being approved by the Senate, where it has languished for more than a year, thanks to opposition from Senate Democrats and anti-logging environmental groups.
“I would give it very low odds of passing,” said Mr. Westerman, Arkansas Republican.
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Both bills were regarded with suspicion, if not outright hostility, by liberal environmental groups, which view “forest management” as a synonym for “clear cutting” and “propping up the logging industry.”
Tracy Coppola, a senior legislative counsel for the environmental nonprofit Earthjustice, blasted Mr. Westerman’s latest legislation a “horrible … triple-whammy” that was “chock-full of gifts to the timber industry.”
Democrats have refused to consider reforms to curtail the legal challenges that hold up, and sometimes kill, tree-cutting and managed-burn projects on environmental grounds, filed by lawyers who are reimbursed if they succeed under the Equal Access to Justice Act.
Cut / clean it up or watch it (and you) burn.
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How many more trees must be cut down to provide coffins for the dead of this fire? That is, IF their bodies can even be found?
This horrendous fire was not an accident of nature. It was ALLOWED to occur due to “environmental” piety.
Democrats aren’t responsible for the massive loss of life and catastrophic property damage in California caused by their opposition to common-sense forestry management policies.
Of course.
“the Equal Access to Justice Act.”
Tell that to the scores killed, the thousand missing and the tens of thousands of homeless after the Camp Fire. Where do THEY go to get justice for the crimes perpetrated by Democrats against them?
Many bodies were completely cremated and are the tiny bits left are being washed away in rain. Families will never have evidence their loved ones perished.
IF ONLY we controlled the Senate, we wouldn’t be blocked by the Democrats like this.
So the Democrats caused these conditions where such devastating wildfires occur, then they blame “climate change deniers” for it.
The Nazis were also extremely “green”.
We control BOTH branches of congress. What’s the problem?
USA is a Banana Republic: Reason #5 In Congress bills are passed only if they benefits the congressclods financially.
What kinds of houses do these Democrats live in?
I would think that the framing is WOOD.
Much of the furniture is WOOD.
Decorations are made of WOOD.
They think they can yell at us for using wood & wanting logging & they are living in a sterile environment that is devoid of WOOD????
They truly are stark raving nuts.
How many members of Congress have beautiful WOOD desks in their offices????
The irony of all of this is that the Republicans who offer forest management bills that can save residents of very Dem states like California from the tragedy of wild fires are the
very same folks who vote in Democrats who create environmental story lines about “saving the forests” that have no basis in fact and indeed not only jeopardize the forests but also their constituents living near them. They deserve one another.
The Democrats are clearly the cause of all the Fires in California and the lives lost and blood shed is on the Democrats. They did all of this.
It takes 60 votes to overcome a filibuster to pass bills in the Senate.
Which is always why Democrat bills coming from the House will die in the Senate.
They’re subject to the 60 vote threshold.
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