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The Forest Service must center the strongest possible protections for forests, rivers, fish, and wildlife and support meaningful tribal involvement in forest management

Matt Vespa, Attorney, Clean Energy Program, Earthjustice: “This program is funneling billions of dollars to polluting biofuels that drive deforestation and food insecurity when those dollars could be spent on accelerating deployment of electric vehicles that will improve our air.”

Sam Sankar, Senior Vice President of Programs, Earthjustice: “With a Trump administration, it’s significantly more likely than in prior transitions that they will simply change their litigation position.”

Comments also support protections for mature trees

Patrice Simms, VP of Litigation, Earthjustice: “This long-overdue action is a game changer in the fight against lead exposure, a silent threat that endangers lives at even the smallest trace.”

Sasan Saadat, Research & Policy Analyst, California Office, Earthjustice: “We need to confront this reality that economic growth that depends on increased pollution can no longer be the thing we reach for.”

U.S. Forest Service officials are traveling throughout Southeast Alaska to hear from residents about how they want our nation’s largest forest managed in coming decades.

In Kake, Alaska, protecting a temperate rainforest means protecting a way of life.

Opposition grows as poison pills appear in previews of the Farm Bill text by Republican House Ag Committee Chair Glenn Thompson which include reductions in key climate and nutrition programs and undercuts to bedrock environmental law and Endangered Species Act

Legal intervention seeks to retain forest protections that support Tribes, communities, and sustainable local economies

Wide-ranging rule will include Bureau of Land Management forest policies

Katrina Tomas, Attorney, California Office, Earthjustice: “This is dirty hydrogen, delivered by dirty trucks, for potentially dirty uses. If the port wants to build this project, it must do a better job explaining how it will clean up all of this pollution.”

Ashley Bennett, Attorney, Northwest Office, Earthjustice: “Clean energy should not lead to increased logging and forest degradation, and it shouldn’t create greenhouse gas emissions. These facilities are just not good for the communities that they come into. They put public health at risk, put forests at risk, put the ecosystem at risk, and ultimately, they…

“True forest management requires engaging communities and utilizing proven best practices, not opening our lands to more reckless logging operations.”

Release of environmental review document kicks off a 90-day public comment period

New Vilsack guidance to Forest Service falls short of protecting key forests

Mature and old-growth forests store and sequester a vast amount of carbon, making them an essential resource for achieving our nation’s climate commitments

Unprecedented oil exports are clearly not in the public interest