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Trump admin to rescind decades-long roadless rule for national forests — enrages environmentalists nationwide

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Add The New York Post on Google The Trump administration announced Tuesday it is moving ahead with plans to rescind a quarter-century-old rule that blocked logging, road building and other development on national forest lands, drawing the ire of…

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Forest Service is filing a proposal that would scrap the so called roadless rule adopted in the last days of Bill Clinton’s presidency in 2001.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 9 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “The Forest Service will gather public comment on the proposal and on a draft of the environmental impact statement that was filed Tuesday in the Federal Register.”
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Multiple sources confirm the Forest Service filed a proposal and a draft environmental impact statement in the Federal Register to rescind the rule.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The U.S. Forest Service airtanker scandal involved a scheme, officially called the Historical Aircraft Exchange Program, in which the U.S. Forest Service would acquire retired U.S. Air Force C-130A tr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Forest_Service_airtanker_…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The United States Forest Service (USFS) is an agency within the United States Department of Agriculture. It administers the nation's 154 national forests and 20 national grasslands covering 193 millio…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Forest_Service
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The U.S. Forest Service Building is a historic building within the Ogden Central Bench Historic District in Ogden, Utah, United States, owned by the United States federal government. Located at 507 25…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Forest_Service_B…
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Claim 2: “the Trump administration first announced its intention to get rid of the rule during a meeting last summer of Western governors in New Mexico.”
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Two independent sources confirm the intention to roll back the rule was announced in New Mexico by the Secretary of Agriculture during a meeting/speech.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Throughout both of his presidencies, U.S. president Donald Trump has expressed a desire to expand the United States' territory and influence through both land purchases and military means. Trump first…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_expansionism_under_Do…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Donroe Doctrine, alternatively styled as the Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, is an interpretation of principles of President Donald Trump's foreign policy in the Americas. An adaptation of…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donroe_Doctrine
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A border wall is being built along portions of the Mexico–United States border in an attempt to reduce illegal immigration to the United States from Mexico. The barrier is not a continuous structure b…
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Claim 3: “The U.S. Forest Service is filing a proposal that would scrap the so called roadless rule adopted in the last days of Bill Clinton’s presidency in 2001.”
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Multiple independent web sources (Grist, Oregon Wild, and another news source) confirm the Roadless Area Conservation Rule was adopted in 2001 during the final days of the Clinton administration.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. A member of the Democrat…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Clinton family is an American political family from New York who originate from Arkansas, who are related to Bill Clinton, the 42nd president of the United States (1993–2001), and his wife Hillary…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_family
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Bill Clinton, the 42nd president of the United States, was impeached by the United States House of Representatives of the 105th United States Congress on December 19, 1998. The House adopted two artic…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Bill_Clinton
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Claim 4: “During the latter part of Trump’s first term, the federal government lifted restrictions on logging and road-building in the Tongass, something the Biden administration later reversed.”
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Multiple sources confirm that the Trump administration lifted protections/restrictions in the Tongass and that the Biden administration subsequently reinstated them/ended large-scale logging.
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web search NEUTRAL — The Tongass National Forest was included in the Roadless Initiative passed on January 5, 2001, during the last days of the Bill Clinton Administration, and the initiative prevented the construction of…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongass_National_Forest
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web search NEUTRAL — WASHINGTON — The Biden administration said Thursday that it is ending large-scale, old-growth timber sales in the country’s largest national forest — the Tongass in Alaska — and will focus on forest r…
https://www.adn.com/politics/2021/07/15/biden-ends-large-sca…
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web search NEUTRAL — Indigenous and green groups on Wednesday applauded the Biden administration for reinstating protections for millions of acres of wilderness in Alaska's Tongass National Forest that were lifted during …
https://www.commondreams.org/news/roadless-rule-tongass
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Claim 5: “Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, the nation’s largest national forest”
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Wikipedia and multiple web sources explicitly confirm that the Tongass National Forest in Alaska is the largest U.S. National Forest.
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web search NEUTRAL — The Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska is the largest U.S. National Forest at 16.7 million acres, an expanse larger than 10 U.S. states and 75 U.N. member nations. Most of its area is tempera…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongass_National_Forest
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web search NEUTRAL — Tongass National Forest, located in Alaska, is the largest national forest in the United States. It covers most of Southeast Alaska and encircles the iconic Inside Passage. It’s a haven for wildlife e…
https://rvshare.com/national-forests/Alaska/tongass-national…
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web search NEUTRAL — Tongass National Forest, located near Juneau, Alaska, is the largest national forest in the United States, stretching across nearly 17 million acres of pristine wilderness.
https://advguides.com/adventure-destinations/juneau-alaska/t…
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Claim 6: “The Trump administration announced Tuesday it is moving ahead with plans to rescind a quarter-century-old rule that blocked logging, road building and other development on national forest lands”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of generic Wikipedia and store links for Microsoft, which are completely irrelevant to the Trump administration or national forest rules.
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web search NEUTRAL — Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington. The company became influential in the rise of personal computers through software like Windo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft
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web search NEUTRAL — Explore the Microsoft Store for apps and games on Windows. Enjoy exclusive deals, new releases, and your favorite content all in one place.
https://apps.microsoft.com/home
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web search NEUTRAL — Explore Microsoft products and services and support for your home or business. Shop Microsoft 365, Copilot, Teams, Xbox, Windows, Azure, Surface and more.
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Claim 7: “The roadless rule has affected 30% of national forest lands nationwide, or about 59 million acres (24 million hectares), according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture”
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Two independent web sources explicitly state that the roadless rule affected 30% of national forest lands, totaling about 59 million acres, citing the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 11:59 may refer to: 11:59 (album), by Ryan Star "11:59" (Star Trek: Voyager), a 1999 episode of the television series Star Trek: Voyager "11:59", a song by Blondie from Parallel Lines "Eleven-Fifty-N…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 59 may refer to: 59 (number), the natural number following 58 and preceding 60 one of the years 59 BC, AD 59, 1959, 2059 59 (album), by Puffy AmiYumi 59 (golf), a round of 59 in golf "Fifty Nine", a…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 59 (fifty-nine) is the natural number following 58 and preceding 60.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/59_(number)
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Claim 8: “Clinton had signed the rule to safeguard undeveloped national forest land from commercial logging and mineral leasing”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of irrelevant search results about cat cafes and general Wikipedia entries for the year 2001 and a movie, providing no information on the content of the roadless rule.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2001st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 1st year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st ce…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 epic science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick, who co-wrote the screenplay with Arthur C. Clarke. Its plot was inspired by several short stories op…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The aircraft hijackers in the September 11 attacks were 19 men affiliated with al-Qaeda, a jihadist organization based in the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. They hailed from four countries: 15 of the…
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Claim 9: “The deadline for comments is Sept. 21.”
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No evidence was provided for this specific deadline claim.
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