Juliet Eilperin

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Old-growth trees in Tongass National Forest, which holds nearly twice as much carbon dioxide as the United States releases each year by burning fossil fuels, are embroiled in the politics of timber and climate change.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Friday will propose restoring roadless protections on more than 9 million acres of the Tongass National Forest in Alaska, a move that would overturn one of Donald Trump’s most significant changes to public lands.

An examination of 196 country reports to the United Nations reveals a giant gap between what nations declare their emissions to be versus the greenhouse gases they are sending into the atmosphere. The gap ranges from at least 8.5 billion to as high as 13.3 billion tons a year -- surpassing the annual emissions of China.

The White House’s 2030 goal for electric vehicle sales could fall short of what experts say is needed to meet U.S. climate goals.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced Thursday that the administration will stop large-scale old-growth logging and bar road development on more than 9 million acres, in a move that would reverse one of Donald Trump’s biggest public land decisions.

Limetree Bay Refining, the problem-plagued plant that rained oil on St. Croix, filed for bankruptcy in federal court this week as activists widened their probe of the operation’s impact.

Using the Congressional Review Act, the House restored a rule limiting methane leaks from oil and gas operations.

The Biden administration said Friday it would prohibit road building in half of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, resurrecting 20-year-old protections Donald Trump had stripped three months before leaving office.

The Interior Department moved to cancel several oil and gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on Tuesday, arguing the Trump administration rushed to auction off drilling rights just days before President Biden took office.