The Worst Congressman: Wally Herger Wants to Abandon NEPA to Salvage Log Burned Areas

Jennifer Lance — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:04:52 +0000

In July, when President Bush made his “historic” visit to Northern California to view wildfires, Representative Wally Herger was on board the helicopter. Other than putting on some Nomex and shaking smoke jumpers’ hands, what has Wally Herger done for Californians during the 2008 Firestorm? Now that the fires are mostly contained, Herger has a plan to utilize emergency provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) to salvage log the burned areas, much of which contain live old growth trees.

Herger’s Voting Record

Wally Herger is one of the worst representatives in Congress evident by his voting record. He is against women’s right to choose, the Endangered Species Amendment Act, alternative fuels and public transportation, alternative energy tax incentives, etc. Herger is for the war, FISA, drug war funding in Mexico and Central America, etc. Now he wants to open up the forests to logging without following the full guidelines of NEPA, which requires “federal agencies to integrate environmental values into their decision making processes by considering the environmental impacts of their proposed actions and reasonable alternatives to those actions,” including an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS).

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The Worst Congressman: Wally Herger Wants to Abandon NEPA to Salvage Log Burned Areas

Herger’s Voting Record