President Biden’s misguided forest policies are currently fast-tracking logging on over 30 millions acres of national forests while eliminating opportunities for public oversight and review. This will dramatically increase carbon emissions, deplete critical carbon sinks and undermine natural climate solutions. At the same time, he has championed his climate policies in international forums. See here for a summary of Biden’s record on forest issues and here for an open letter from over 200 scientists asking that climate-harming logging and fossil fuel provisions be removed from the Reconciliation and Infrastructure Bills. See here for an analysis of Biden’s failure to protect mature and old growth forests.
