Water, Wildlife, & Fisheries Oversight Hearing | February 24, 2026

House Subcommittee on Agriculture and Natural Resources Commission · February 25, 2026

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Opening: member frames wildfire and grid reliability as urgent for rural and tribal communities

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A committee member (identified in the transcript as the speaker who opens) described rural and tribal communities in Northern California facing repeated outages, public safety power shutoffs and wildfire risk, and called for proactive infrastructure investment beyond vegetation management, including grid hardening and monitoring technology.

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A House subcommittee hearing focused on permitting delays for vegetation management and transmission work on federal lands, where utilities, unions, and experts urged Congress to adopt the Fix Our Forest Act and related reforms to speed approvals and reduce wildfire risk.

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