Letter to the Senate on carbon neutrality (Senate Amendment 3140 to S. 2012, the Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2015)

Co-signed letter February 24, 2016 [ html ]

This well-intentioned legislation, which claims to address climate change, would in fact promote deforestation in the U.S. and elsewhere and make climate change much worse

Article about the bill by Scot Quaranda and associated cartoon (left) by David Cohen. February 25, 2016. Courtesy of The Dogwood Alliance.

Media coverage of the letter in The Washington Post February 26, 2016 [ link ]

Response to me from my senator, Edward J. Markey (D-MA), 19 July, 2016