News about our Foundation
MAY 27, 2022: Doug Phelps, president and executive director of The Public Interest Network, announces the Fund for the Public Interest Foundation.
Forests
Keeping our forests healthy, whole and wild.
The trees that make up our forests are some of the oldest living things on Earth, many of them older than America itself. These forests provide crucial habitat for thousands of species. They provide limitless opportunities for recreation, exploration and wonder. What’s more, our forests absorb and store carbon dioxide, which makes them crucial allies in our race against climate change. Together we can protect our forests from road-building, logging, development and other threats.
The Latest on Forests
Saving our largest old-growth forest
We need to protect older forests and trees on public land
Updates
President Biden can protect the Tongass National Forest today
Bedrock environmental law safe for now
Environment America and coalition deliver public comments to protect mature and old-growth forests
Featured Resources
Moving Beyond Wood Pulp Part 3: Hemp
First Things to Fix
The Latest
16,000 Environment America supporters speak up to save the Tongass
For centuries, the trees of the Tongass have stood firmly rooted in their forest home. But as threats of logging and development encroached, nearly 16,000 supporters stood to save the forest.
We can protect tropical forests
The threat of tropical deforestation is escalating but we can make a difference through national and state policy
Procter & Gamble shareholders cast fewer votes for the board member letting the company flush our forests
Director Angela Braly received more than 55,000 fewer votes than any other director
America’s Salmon Forest
The Tongass is the only habitat in the world that supports all five species of Pacific salmon
More than 30,000 tell Charmin and Bounty: Don’t Flush the Forest
Environment America Research & Policy Center delivered 33,564 petition signatures to the shareholders of Procter & Gamble (P&G), parent company of Charmin and Bounty. The petition called upon P&G shareholders to act to end the use of virgin wood in tissue paper products such as to help preserve the Canadian boreal forest.