Offsets

Cap and Trade Part 4: Forests, Farms, and Offsets

Bill Chameides | Posted 07.18.2009 | Green


Bill Chameides

Many people have a hard time accepting that one can emit CO2 from a power plant in Ohio and offset those emissions by capturing methane on a North Carolina hog farm.

The Climate Bill's Giant Carbon Polluter Loophole

David Sassoon | Posted 05.18.2009 | Green


David Sassoon

Allowing polluting companies to keep pumping carbon into the atmosphere by paying others to reduce emission is a practice analagous to trying to lose weight by paying someone else to go on a diet.