The United States has announced sweeping changes to encourage more logging in the country's national forests. A new emergency order requires rolling back environmental protections on almost 60% of ...

President Donald Trump has instructed federal agencies to increase logging on national forests nationwide, including in Washington state, counter to decades of environmental policy and protections.

President Donald Trump’s administration acted to roll back environmental protections around future logging projects on more than half of U.S. national forests under an emergency designation ...