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Written by Matt Dias Shaye Wolf is right about one thing: California has affordable clean energy options like solar and wind. But her op-ed ignores an urgent, critical reality on the ground: we are in a wildfire crisis and California is drowning in hazardous forest waste with nowhere to put it. Biomass energy is not about cutting healthy forests or replacing solar and wind. It’s about the fact that California is in a wildfire emergency, and the state faces a dangerous accumulation of forest...

Press Release Washington, D.C.— Today, Congressman LaMalfa’s (R-Richvale) bill, the Forest Protection and Wildland Firefighter Safety Act, passed the House as part of a larger permitting reform package, the PERMIT Act . The bill ensures that aerial fire retardant remains available for wildfire suppression efforts without being tied up in Clean Water Act permitting delays. The bill has earned strong support from local leaders, here’s what they’re saying: Tod Kimmelshue, Chair Butte County...