Biden to overturn Trump rule allowing roads in Tongass National Forest

Context: Road construction in the Tongass National Forest had been barred for about two decades before Trump permitted it and other forms of development and expanded logging operations in a huge swath of the forest roughly three months before leaving office.

• Environmentalists and members of Alaska’s recreation industry have argued that preventing road construction is a key to preserving the forest, which is also a massive natural carbon dioxide sink, according to the Post.

The big picture: The expected Biden administration move is a continuation of the president's rollback of Trump-era resource extraction and environmental protection policies.

• Biden's Environmental Protection Agency is working on reimplementing certain federal protections for streams, marshes and other wetlands that had been paired back under Trump.

• The Interior Department also suspended nearly a dozen oil and gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in June.

Yes, but: The Biden administration in May defended in the U.S. District Court for Alaska a massive ConocoPhillips oil and gas project approved during the Trump-era.

What's next: The Agriculture Department expects to publish its proposed rule change in August, according to the Post.

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