Energy and Environment
Information regarding my stance on Energy and Environment issues.
Heidi Rahn is a lifelong wildlife advocate and director of the Oregon Zoo.
The Recovering America's Wildlife Act would help us create good jobs for today while protecting our state's wildlife heritage for tomorrow. This session, we hope the entire Oregon Congressional delegation from both sides of the aisle will join Representatives DeFazio, Blumenauer and Bonamici in championing this groundbreaking bill and helping it become the law of the land.
U.S. Reps. Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Jerry McNerney (D-CA), and Ed Perlmutter (D-CO) recently introduced the National Wildland Fire Risk Reduction Program Act (H.R. 5781), which seeks to enhance wildfire preparedness, resilience, and response.
Democrats on the U.S. House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis in Washington, D.C., cheered Biden's pledge Tuesday to slash emissions of dangerous methane gases and help stop deforestation in this decade in a series of public statements and social media posts. Oregon Democrat Suzanne Bonamici shared posts from the climate-crisis committee in support of Biden's methane-reduction plans, which are to be implemented through executive agencies including the Environmental Protection Agency.
A delegation of Oregon leaders — including Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley and Representatives Suzanne Bonamici, Kurt Schrader, and Peter DeFazio — wrote to the U.S. Department of Commerce urging them to declare a catastrophic regional fishery disaster. Three years of drought in a row have severely impacted the Pacific Northwest's salmon populations.
Much of Oregon's congressional delegation is asking the federal government to declare the effects of three consecutive years of drought a disaster for Chinook salmon fishing. The letter, signed by U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden and U.S. Reps. Suzanne Bonamici, Peter DeFazio and Kurt Schrader, warns that drought in 2018, 2019 and 2020 has reduced the scale of salmon runs.