Elizabeth Furse: “I am here to talk about the so-called forest recovery bill. This bill is bad for the environment and it is bad for the…”

“I am here to talk about the so-called forest recovery bill. This bill is bad for the environment and it is bad for the economy. The sponsors say it will fix environmental problems in the forest. But, in fact, it will harm our public forests. And because it is such a bad bill, we have a lot of people who are opposing it. The League of Conservation Voters have said they will score this as a key no vote. Who else is opposing the bill? Quite a lot of people: the Methodist Church, Taxpayers for Common Sense, the Presbyterian Church, Religious Center for Reformed Judaism, The National Audubon Society, and the US PIRGs. Sure, we do have environmental problems. But we are trying to fix those problems at a local level. We have hundreds of private-public partnerships working to fix those environmental approximate. What this bill is is a fix from Washington, D.C. We do not need a fix from Washington, D.C. We need to fix our environmental problems on the ground, people who understand, people who know the problems. So I say, vote no on H.R. 2515.”