{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://crane.house.gov/2024/09/26/crane-backed-fix-our-forests-act-passes-house/", "Crane-Backed \u2018Fix Our Forests Act\u2019 Passes House", "2024-09-26", "2024", "2024-09", "Republican", "House", "AZ", "Elijah Crane", "C001132", "crane.house.gov", "crane", "https://crane.house.gov/media/", "scraper", "This week, the House of Representatives passed the bipartisan Fix Our Forests Act, a bill supported by Rep. Eli Crane (R-AZ), which would improve the health and resiliency of America\u2019s forests.\n\nThe legislation was supported by every House Republican and fifty-five House Democrats.\n\nMore than 117 million acres of forests in the United States are overgrown, prone to fires, and in need of active management. The bill would enable expedited approvals for vegetation management, directly benefitting the safety of communities in rural Arizona.\n\nThe Fix Our Forests Act would:\n\nSimplify and expedite environmental reviews to reduce costs and planning times for critical forest management projects while maintaining rigorous environmental standards.\n\nEnd frivolous litigation that delays needed forest management projects.\n\nUtilize state-of-the-art science to prioritize the treatment of forests at the highest risk of wildfire.\n\nIncentivize forest management projects of up to 10,000 acres to increase the pace and scale of active management.\n\nPromote federal, state, tribal, and local collaboration by creating a new Fireshed Center and codifying the Shared Stewardship initiative.\n\nMake communities more resilient to wildfire by coordinating existing grant programs and incentivizing new research.\n\nGive agencies new tools to restore watersheds, protect communities in the wildland-urban interface and prevent forest conversion.\n\nRevitalize rural economies by strengthening tools such as Good Neighbor Authority and Stewardship Contracting.\n\nAdopt new and innovative technologies to address forest health threats like wildfires, drought, insects and disease.\n\nHarden utility rights-of-way against wildfire by encouraging more active managementand removal of dangerous hazard trees.\n\nBackground:", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T21:43:57Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://crane.house.gov/2024/09/26/crane-backed-fix-our-forests-act-passes-house/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.594876404851675, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}