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Once again, inadequate environmental review is causing the Trump administration to lose in court. A judge in Alaska sidelined the Trump administration's proposal to open part of the Tongass National Forest to logging. The plan, focused on Prince of Wales Island, would open up 1.8 million acres over the next 15 years, as well as approving 164 miles of roads to be built throughout the national forest. "The Forest Service has not yet taken the requisite hard look at the environmental impact of site-specific timber sales on Prince of Wales over the next 15 years," wrote Judge Sharon Gleason, who ruled on this case.
Specifically, the judge found that the Forest Service violated three laws in the process: the National Environmental Policy Act, the National Forest Management Act, and the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act. The project is halted for now, but the decision will mostly likely be appealed by the Forest Service.
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The [oil and gas] industry has gotten quite a few things off its wish list from this administration. Yet the administration is still willing to do more... When will it ever end?”
