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Today, on Earth Day, President Biden will announce a new policy to protect mature and old-growth trees which store the most carbon. Unfortunately, the president’s order will not ban logging of mature and old-growth forests or even protect the trees.  Instead, the President’s order is the latest version of a long bipartisan, Orwellian plan to subsidize More

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This content originally appeared on CounterPunch.org and was authored by Michael Garrity.

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