Bidens protected acres havent even lasted past his first term. Millions of acres of previously protected land got put for sale exclusively for oil and gas extraction.
While more land is protected, he's still approved roughly the same number of drilling permits, and the US is now producing more oil than any country in history, despite promises to stop drilling on federal land.
must have something to do with that carbon tax thing. Basically you can credit money to your country if you have assets that reduce carbon dioxide, making it incentivizing to keep forrests.