‘Serial Litigant’ Testifies as Congress Debates Wildfire Fixes

But Democrat calls her 'serial justice warrior'

Firefighter Davis Sommer lights a backfire to burn off vegetation while battling the Mosquito Fire in the Volcanoville community of El Dorado County, Calif., on Sept. 9, 2022. Noah Berger/AP Photo

Lawmakers are split over Rep. Matt Rosendale’s Forest Information Reform (FIR) Act, arguing over whether one environmental lawyer who opposes it was a “serial litigator” or a “serial justice warrior.”

The FIR Act was one of four bills discussed in this Congress’s first meeting of the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Federal Lands.