• Climate Change

Trump Dealt Two Blows By Courts — One on Timber and One on Climate Cap and Trade

• auto emissions
• cap and trade
• climate change
• greenhouse gas emission
• Roadless Rule
• Tongass National Forest

Federal Courts this week reversed two decisions by the Trump Administration, one in Alaska that would delay opening up 1.8 million acres of the Tongass National Forest in Alaska to logging and another in California that allows California’s program to reduce vehicle emissions in collaboration with the Canadian province of Quebec to continue.

Why This Matters:  Both these decisions will help the U.S. to combat climate change.

• Politics

Heroes of the Week: WECAN Indigenous Women Working to Save the Tongass Forest

• Alaska
• Tlingit
• Tongass National Forest

Greta Thunberg has nothing on these ladies!  Last March, they traveled 3000 miles from their home in Alaska to lobby Congress to continue to conserve the Tongass National Forest, one of the largest carbon sinks on the planet.  The Trump Administration is considering lifting current protections on the area.  These Tlingit women were part of […]

• Forests

President Trump Pushes To Open Pristine Alaska Forest To Logging

• ANWR
• Arctic
• logging
• mining
• Tongass National Forest

Twenty years ago, President Clinton put a large area of pristine Alaskan rain forest off-limits to logging, but President Trump is now apparently set to open parts of the 16.7 million-acre Tongass National Forest up again, according to The Washington Post.  The President spoke to Alaska’s Governor and then directed the Secretary of Agriculture, who manages national forest lands, to lift the restrictions on road building, which in effect banned logging and other development there.