07/17/2023
https://congress.gov...
"From the Yale study, the authors stated that mass timber construction has the potential to create a vast bank vault that could store up to 68 million tons of carbon, annually."
"They added that a city using mass timber construction will become a carbon sink versus a carbon source."
"I have proposed proactive natural solutions like the Trillion Trees Act that would restore our forest, promote reforestation, promote innovation, and promote market-based solutions for wood products."
"We know that forests are the largest scale, most efficient system to pull carbon out of the atmosphere, and wood products like we see here on this dais are 40 to 50 percent, by weight, stored carbon."