Today, President Joe Biden will issue an executive order that directs federal agencies to conduct an inventory of mature and old-growth forests on America’s federal lands so that policies can be adopted to protect them. The administration framed the move as a key strategy to store carbon and address climate change.
From the fires to the heatwaves, sea-level rise, blackouts, and more, the climate crisis is here. A changing climate has increased the risk of unnaturally large and more frequent and dangerous fires. The long-term safety of our communities relies on reducing climate pollution, preserving forests to draw down climate pollution and moving away from polluting fuels, and supporting community resilience and preparedness against fires.
Trees and forests are essential for taking on the damaging effects of the climate crisis and for maintaining healthy communities and ecosystems. Last week, Congress took major steps towards supporting essential forestry and tree-planting programs that will make our communities more resilient to extreme weather and build up the critical green infrastructure we need to capture carbon and take on climate change. On this International Day of Forests, Sierra Club is calling on Congress and the White House to act to protect one of our greatest climate solutions: trees.
Conserving our remaining older forests and trees on federal public lands is one of the country’s most straightforward, impactful, and cost-effective climate solutions. If the Biden Administration is going to lead in solving the climate and biodiversity crises, it must protect these carbon critical climate forests and set an example for the world. Along with over 70 groups that support the Climate Forests Campaign, Sierra Club calls on the Administration to enact a strong, lasting rule that protects old and mature trees and forests across federal lands as a cornerstone of US climate policy.
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.