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Infrastructure bill was stripped of so much of the climate tackling infrastructure theyre proposing. >> and this is, of course, all happening amid record heat waves in this country. we are seeing triple different temperatures in places like portland and seattle that are usually much cooler this time of year. dozens have died from the heat. theres this town in canada, about 195 miles east of vancouver, that town caught fire, more than 1,000 people had to flee. what is causing this extreme heat in...

Excerpt from Following the Good River Following the Good River is a biography of Cecil Pauls life as one North American’s more prominent Indigenous leaders. Photo: Paul Watson/Can Geo Photo Club December 14, 2020 Cecil Paul, also known by his Xenaksiala name, Wa’xaid, was born in the Kitlope and is one of the last speakers of the language of his people. He survived being placed in a residential school, struggled with substance abuse and eventually returned home to heal. During this time,...

Intact temperate rain forest. the tongas is a massive stretch replete with old growth spruce, hemlock and cedar, rivers running and dramatic fjords. in addition to being massive and 40% of the salmon in the western united states, the tongass is a massive buffer for climate change for the whole globe. dont take my word for it, do it based on the pictures. they need to let the tongass be drilled and mined and not just chopped down. this was from last summer addressing climate change on the tongass...

Any time given whats going on in terms of climate change. even the fill-in gas company says so. at this particular moment like this week, really? literally, this week the amazon rain forest. right this second its on fire and having its worst year on fires causing a global frequentout of the uncontrolled fires. while the worlds largest tropical rain forest is ablaze in the amazon, the trump administration this week also moved to chop down the worlds largest temperate rain forest from the washingt...

Are more common here and depend on a healthy old growth rain forest. the salmon that you mentioned earlier that are in alaskas waters still wild are a key part of the economy of southeast alaska and are important for people who make their way of life based on salmon in the region. in addition, the unique tongass national forest and its wild areas draw visitors from around the country and around the world and last year we wanted to see the spectacular space. and together with the fishing industry...

>> well, when we refer to an order, we mean verbal instruction. so its not like an executive order has been issued, but the president, based on our reporting has had a conversation with the agricultural secretary where he has instructed him to exempt the state of alaska from this 2001 roadless rule, which as you said was instituted in the final days of bill clintons time in office. and so now the forest service, which had been contemplating more modest changes to how the forest would be managed ...

National forest to loggers. >> got to take care of the floors, you know, the floors of the forest, very important. >> when "all in" starts right now. >> good evening from new york. im chris hayes there is a case to be made that there is a loaded gun embedded in the constitution, and that loaded gun is the pardon power. just sitting there, waiting to be abused. its a power given solely to the president, and it would theoretically allow for all kinds of misuse. for example, what if a really, reall...

>> eric, are you confident you can beat this back in the courts? >> as juliet mentioned, the bush administration attempted to put in place an exemption for the tongass national forest. it failed. judges rejected that attempt to exempt the tongass because the agent wasnt able to explain the about face and their position. and we think it will be very difficult for the forest service to justify an exemption of the tongass and meet the requirements of the laws to do it. >> all right, juliet and eric...

>> well, while they have discretion to, for example, change potentially this rule and change the management plan to the forest, as you alluded, its clear that they would face legal challenges in the same way that for example george w. bush did when he was president, he does exempt more than two million acres in the worst and instigated timber sales there. ironically, now we have road roadless areas. there is in fact were roads that were constructed in areas that then after a court decision in su...