Today, a coalition of more than 70 groups launched a new campaign called the Climate Forests Campaign, calling on the Biden administration to take executive action to protect mature trees and forests on federal lands, which are critical in the fight against climate change.
Trees and forests are essential for taking on the damaging effects of the climate crisis and for maintaining healthy communities and ecosystems. President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda would make once-in-a-generation investments to support forestry and tree-planting programs and initiatives that are key to making our communities more resilient to extreme weather and building up the critical green infrastructure we need to take on climate change.
Trees and forests are essential for maintaining healthy communities and ecosystems. The Build Back Better Act’s investments to support forestry programs and initiatives are key to making our communities more resilient to the climate crisis and building up the critical green infrastructure we need to take on the climate crisis. In total, the funding for forestry and related programs included in the Build Back Better Act could plant 38 million trees across the country.
President Biden and House Democrats have unveiled the framework for the Build Back Better Act, including the biggest investments in climate initiatives in American history. The package includes $27 billion to restore forests, fight wildfires, and sequester carbon through nationwide tree-planting and critical Old-Growth protection programs, among other major green space investments.
President Biden’s Build Back Better Act is a once-in-a-generation investment in the effort to tackle the climate crisis. One of the important but lesser known aspects of the package put together by House Democrats is the nearly $3.5 billion in funding to support urban and community forestry and green space development across the country, which are essential efforts for protecting our most vulnerable communities from the worst consequences of the climate crisis.
Today, the Biden administration announced that it will rescind a Trump-era attack on the Tongass National Forest that would have put Alaska’s last vestiges of old-growth forest at risk of destructive logging and road-building.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Trump administration today published a final rule containing rollbacks undercutting the role of science, transparency, and broad public input for decisions involving projects proposed on national forest land. The new rule will pave the way to increased logging, road, and pipeline construction.
OAKLAND-- Two new major fires in California have led to additional deaths, property loss and evacuation orders. The fast growing fires are the latest in what was already a record fire season for the state.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Despite the ongoing and overwhelming COVID-19 crisis, the U.S. Forest Service has not slowed its push to allow a new wave of logging in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest. Today the agency announced a Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) advancing its proposal to eliminate the Roadless Rule in the Tongass, opening vast swaths of irreplaceable old-growth temperate rainforest to clearcut logging.
OAKLAND -- Donald Trump today visited California for a briefing on wildfires burning across the Pacific Northwest. During his remarks, Trump once again promoted his denial of climate science.