"The Trump administration wrongly tweaked a grant process when forwarding $2 million in funds to the state of Alaska as officials pushed to open the state’s Tongass National Forest up to more logging, a government watchdog found.
In September of last year, the U.S. Forest Service gave $2 million to Alaska to help it prepare an environmental analysis of proposed logging in one of the nation’s largest old-growth forests.
The problem, Democratic lawmakers argued, is that pot of money was designed to help communities prevent and suppress wildfires."
Source: The Hill, 12/21/2020
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