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Biden restores protections for Alaska's Tongass National Forest after Trump rollback

CNBC · Emma Newburger · last updated

The Biden administration on Wednesday announced it’s reinstating restrictions on logging and road-building on about nine million acres of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest. 

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