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My legislation represents a pragmatic, science-based first step in addressing global carbon emissions, emphasizing natural carbon sequestration through reforestation, forest management, and sustainable utilization.
I want to stress again that this is not just a carbon sequestration bill, it is a carbon emission reduction bill.
Did you know the oldest structures on Earth are wooden structures.
As long as it is solid, the carbon is there. It is the best carbon storage mechanism that we know of.
If indeed the goal of the first bill, which is to end all leasing, were to come into fruition, or at least allow litigation to make sure that the rest of it is stopped at some point, it will have the net effect of destroying Western…
The answer is trees. Unequivocally, the most pragmatic, proactive, economical, and large-scale solution to reducing atmospheric carbon levels is sustainable forestry.
I wish we had longer to have that conversation.
I have never said we don't need to reduce carbon emissions, and this bill actually focuses on reducing carbon emissions and sequestering carbon.
Americans want Congress to act. According to the Pew Research Center, most Americans currently list the environment as one of the top policy priorities.
It is wonderful that when you try to satisfy special interest groups, you can't satisfy them all without actually destroying all of them at the same time.
the actual emissions are decreasing in the same time period.
Despite public misconception, the United States leads the world in reducing emissions while we are growing our economy.
The No. 1 reason for deforestation in the United States? It is development.
Mr. Westerman has a bill that actually is a common-sense solution that you can solve carbon, either by limiting how much goes into the air, or trying to pull it out of the air.
No, and I challenge anybody in the room or outside the room to tell me a better way to get the existing carbon that is in the atmosphere at 411 parts per million, to get that out of the atmosphere.
Not hardly. I consider planting trees and taking care and being good stewards of the forests that we have sound environmental stewardship.
This policy will result in reduced carbon emissions.