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Despite Promise, Biden BLM Keeps OKing Plans To Cut Down Old Forests [1]

"Earth Day Promise: In 2022, President Joe Biden announced a new effort to protect old forests, which are key to the fight against climate change. But it hasn’t made much of a difference.

Logging Continues: The Bureau of Land Management has allowed timber companies to cut these forests at a faster pace since Biden's executive order than in the decade that preceded it.

Legal Battles: Conservation groups keep suing over what they claim are rushed timber sales, and they keep winning — but under a Trump administration, they may be unable to keep up."

April Ehrlich and Tony Schick report for Oregon Public Broadcasting, and McKenzie Funk for ProPublica, November 12, 2024. [2]

 

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Source: ProPublica/OPB [2], 11/13/2024
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/despite-promise-biden-blm-keeps-oking-plans-cut-down-old-forests [2] https://www.propublica.org/article/biden-logging-blm-oregon-climate [3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-politics [4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/forests [5] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/laws [6] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/land [7] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/wildlife [8] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national [9] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81