Climate Changed
White House Unveils Plans to Fight Wildfires With More Logging
- Trump administration announces new fire-fighting policy
- Environmentalists cite need to combat climate change
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The Trump administration announced a new policy to fight wildfires, doubling down on its assertion that the best response is better forest management rather than focusing on climate change.
Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue said Thursday that the U.S. Forest Service would increase the amount of logging and controlled burns on federal lands, to reduce the amount of fuel available to drive increasingly severe forest fires. He brushed off questions about whether climate change was making those fires worse.