07/20/2021
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"My bill would designate approximately 23 million acres of wild lands in the continental Northwest as wilderness."
"So up until the 1970's, the colonization and the displacement of indigenous peoples in the United States included banning a practice that we now know explicitly sequestered carbon."
"My bill would also help us meet the goals of the Paris Agreement by preserving large swaths of forests."
"That is why I introduced H.R. 1755, the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act, or NREPA."