The Trump administration has cleared the way to allow logging in the country's largest national forest — which holds an estimated 8% of all carbon stored in U.S. national forests.
Environmental groups decried the administration's move.
"The Tongass alone stores more than 400 million metric tons of CO2 and sequesters an additional 3 million metric tons annually, equivalent to taking nearly 650,000 cars off the road each year," Moderow said. Greenpeace USA's Amy Moas warned that gutting the rule would cause irreversible ecological consequences.
Alaska's Republican Gov. Michael Dunleavy and the state's congressional delegation, including Sen. Lisa Murkowski, have supported a full exemption for the Roadless Rule, arguing that the protections are stifling the local economy.
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