Singer/Songwriter and environmental activist Carole King wrote an opinion piece on why the Biden Administration should sign an executive order immediately…
“…directing his secretaries of the interior and agriculture to take all steps available to them to stop commercial logging on public land. We can’t wait a year…..Forest preservation is a climate solution. That’s why we need action to safeguard the forests on the public lands we all share. Federal law requires that most public lands be managed for multiple uses, such as recreation, gas and oil development, mining and logging. But this longstanding policy is running headlong into efforts to slow the warming of our planet.“
Read the whole opinion piece here:
Opinion | It Costs Nothing to Leave Our Trees as They Are – The New York Times (nytimes.com)
Filed under: Climate Change, Environmental Law |
