NAFO’s recommendations respond to the Biogenic Carbon Emissions Panel’s draft recommendations on EPA’s accounting framework for carbon emissions.
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Forest Owners to EPA: Seek Practical Approaches to Biomass Carbon Accounting
Friday, January 27th, 2012Dovetail Partners Explains the Forest Carbon Debate in Plain English
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012A new report provides a concise primer to policy makers on the forest carbon cycle, carbon accounting, biomass energy emissions and other critical topics.
read moreThe Daily News: New law shields timberland owners from permit fees for logging roads
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011New federal legislation will help timberland owners avoid costly permit fees for logging roads, U.S. Reps. Jaime Herrera Beutler and Kurt Schrader announced Monday.
Under the new provision, a 35-year-old U.S. Environmental Protection Agency policy would be extended for another year. It would shield timber companies from the cost of designing stormwater control systems for logging roads under the federal Clean Water Act. Landowners will not be required to get federal permits to build logging roads.
read moreForest Owners Thank Congress for Supporting EPA’s Longstanding Interpretation of the Clean Water Act
Saturday, December 17th, 2011David P. Tenny, President and CEO of the National Alliance of Forest Owners (NAFO) released the following statement today in response to congressional action on the Conference Report for H.R. 2055, the Omnibus Appropriations bill, which maintains EPA’s longstanding treatment of forest roads as non-point sources under the Clean Water Act:
read morePETERSEN: Washington doesn’t need to regulate rain
Friday, December 16th, 2011If the Supreme Court declines to review it, a recent ruling from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco will put federal courts into the business of managing every acre of privately owned timberland in America. Farmers beware. You could be next. In May, the 9th Circuit determined that rainwater draining from [...]
read moreMore Ninth Circuit Mayhem
Friday, December 16th, 2011The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is often a source of national amusement, but if one of its recent decisions on the Clean Water Act is allowed to stand, it will wreak havoc on the timber industry and damage other agricultural management as well. Today the Supreme Court is likely to decide whether to hear [...]
read moreForest Owners Applaud Supreme Court on Forest Roads Order
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011David P. Tenny, President and CEO of the National Alliance of Forest Owners (NAFO), released the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court issued an order asking the Solicitor General for the views of the federal government on two petitions challenging the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling that forest roads are “point sources” requiring an industrial discharge permit under the Clean Water Act (CWA)
read moreForest Owners to EPA Science Panel: Energy Markets are Good for Forest Carbon
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011Today the National Alliance of Forest Owners told EPA’s Biogenic Carbon Emissions Panel, convened to review the carbon impacts of using wood and other biomass for energy, to look to the marketplace for key information on how biomass energy will affect overall carbon in the atmosphere.
read moreForest Owners Urge EPA to Conduct Science Review Free of Policy Bias
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011National Alliance of Forest Owners President and CEO, Dave Tenny issued the following statement regarding comments submitted yesterday to the EPA’s Science Advisory Board Review Panel, convened to conduct a science and technical review of carbon emissions from biomass energy production…
read more26 State AGs Join NAFO in Defense of EPA Water Quality Rules
Monday, October 17th, 201126 State Attorneys General Join Petition to Defend EPA Clean Water Act Interpretation WASHINGTON, DC (October 17, 2011) – A bi-partisan, geographically diverse group of twenty-six state Attorneys General joined forest owners and industry groups in filing briefs asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling that rainwater runoff [...]
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