WASHINGTON, DC, May 17, 2012 – The National Alliance of Forest Owners (NAFO) today urged the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources to include a definition of biomass in clean energy legislation that will promote rather than discourage the use of biomass to meet America’s renewable energy goals. NAFO provided written testimony for the [...]
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Clean Energy Standard Bill will Discourage Use of Biomass for Renewable Energy
Thursday, May 17th, 2012NAFO Strengthens Advocacy, Communications by Welcoming Sakura and Schaefer
Wednesday, May 9th, 2012WASHINGTON, DC, May 9, 2012 – The National Alliance of Forest Owners (NAFO) welcomes Dan Sakura, Vice President for Government Relations and Gretchen Schaefer, Vice President for Communications as the newest members of the organization’s advocacy team in Washington. “Dan and Gretchen’s four decades of combined experience in their respective fields greatly strengthens NAFO’s advocacy [...]
read moreForest Owners Again Tell EPA—Biomass Carbon Accounting Must be Practical
Tuesday, March 20th, 2012WASHINGTON, DC, March 20, 2012 – The National Alliance of Forest Owners (NAFO) continues to urge the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Biogenic Carbon Emissions Panel to provide recommendations to the EPA that are scientifically sound, practical and reflect the carbon benefits of wood biomass energy. The Panel is conducting a peer review of EPA’s Accounting [...]
read moreForest Owners to EPA: Seek Practical Approaches to Biomass Carbon Accounting
Friday, January 27th, 2012NAFO’s recommendations respond to the Biogenic Carbon Emissions Panel’s draft recommendations on EPA’s accounting framework for carbon emissions.
read moreDovetail 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 [...]
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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)
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