House Squabble Over Trillion Trees Shows Partisan Climate Divide

Dueling partisan climate bills came before a House panel Wednesday, illustrating the parties’ radically different approaches for using public lands to address climate change.

Republicans want to plant 1 trillion trees as the centerpiece of their strategy. Democrats say that planting trees isn’t enough and that cutting fossil fuel use, particularly on federal lands, is far more important.

“All the trees in the world won’t stand a fighting chance if we don’t cut our fossil fuel emissions,” Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.), chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, said during a hearing by the committee.

Grijalva’s solution is his American ...