WASHINGTON, June 29 -- Sen. Adam Schiff issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) joined Senators Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.), John Curtis (R-Utah), and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) in introducing bipartisan legislation, the Hazardous Fuels Transportation Assistance Act (https://www.schiff.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/RYA26684.pdf) to help communities and forest managers remove woody biomass-material left behind from forest thinning operations meant to prevent wildfires-that, if left in place, actually increases wildfire risk.
California generates tens of millions of forestry biomass each year. When forests are mechanically thinned to reduce wildfire risk, the process generates large v...