A House Natural Resources subcommittee will take up legislation this week to prevent electric power lines from causing wildfires.
H.R. 6012, from Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-Calif.), would authorize the Forest Service authorize to allow the removal of trees around electrical lines on national forest land without conducting a timber sale.
“Our bill is a no-brainer for western states who have seen electrical equipment and dry, dead trees combine to create devastating wildfires in recent years,” Carbajal said of the “Fire Safe Electrical Corridors Act of 2023.”
Other bills on the agenda are: