President JoeBiden will reportedly order government agencies on Earth Day on Friday to take new action to protect old-growth forests, which are central to his agenda of mitigating climate change.
The order will direct the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management to inventory the nation's mature forests to inform new policies to protect them.Biden's order will not lay out a ban on logging of the trees, according to the Washington Post, and will include new action designed to disrupt deforestation overseas.
Biden prioritized forest protection during his trip to the U.N.'s COP26 climate change conference in November, where he pledged billions of dollars over the next decade to support the conservation of global forests. He called the effort an"indispensable" piece of his climate agenda. Forests serve as"carbon sinks" for their maintenance of carbon dioxide and are integral to policymakers' strategies for slowing climate change.The order will serve as part of the larger Earth Day messaging the Biden administration has undertaken this week to market its green energy and environmental bona fides.
The White House's Council on Environmental Quality announced a rollback of Trump-era regulations governing environmental reviews for infrastructure projects. The Environmental Protection Agency also announced it will dispense $542 million in funding from the new infrastructure law to help reduce plastic pollution in oceans.
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