Diana DeGette actually said...

All of us from Colorado know, Madam Chairwoman, that this is a terrible problem in the West, in particular, in Colorado.

In fact, in the current draft of the Waxman-Markey Climate Change Bill woody biomass is included in the renewable electricity standard.

I would feel that woody biomass is an economic value. But we have to save our loggers.

It seems to us as we do this climate change bill, which ultimately can help with the bark beetles, that we might be able to get incentives f...