"Emergency Language In Wildfire Bill Splits Environmentalists" [1]
"The “Fix Our Forests Act” would limit public objections to projects aimed at preventing wildfires."
"A fast-moving bill to reduce wildfire risks in national forests would give the Agriculture Department a work-around past even the bill’s modest environmental safeguards, making the measure tough to swallow for some environmentalists and Hill Democrats.
The “Fix Our Forests Act,” S. 1462, which advanced out of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee with bipartisan support earlier this month, would give the Agriculture secretary wide latitude to declare “emergency” situations on millions of acres of federal land.
The language in the bill would provide even faster forest work than the rest of the legislation envisions and offer limited opportunity for the public to object."