The National Alliance of Forest Owners joined sixteen other organizations and companies to urge the U.S. Senate, “to establish a robust emissions offsets program with the U.S. Department of Agriculture as the principal agency responsible for the development and implementation of agricultural and forestry offsets projects.” Read the full letter (PDF) to Senators Harkin, Boxer, Chambliss, and Inhofe.
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Dave Tenny urges the Senate Agriculture Committee to support a broad definition for renewable forest biomass and urge EPA to change More
NAFO reiterates prevailing science that GHG emissions from renewable biomass energy do not increase the carbon in the atmosphere. More
NAFO provides answers to Pinchot's questions and notes that markets for forest biomass help conserve working forests. More
A guest op-ed in The Hill makes the case that forest products, and the associated jobs, are "green jobs." More
Over 100 scientists wrote the U.S. Senate and House to reiterate that biomass energy is renewable and carbon beneficial and to express their concern over the EPA's GHG Tailoring Rule. More
NAFO comments on the EPA's NPDES general permit for pesticide application. More
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