The Minneapolis Park Board is poised to approve a third year of selling "carbon offset credits" generated by capitalizing on trees planted throughout the city's parkland to companies that want to claim they're reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The scheme has earned the city more than $100,000, but it hasn't yet caused a single additional tree to be planted.
If approved by the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission, the $58 million Natural Gas Innovation Plan in Minnesota expects to reduce or avoid 54,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide over the lifetime of the plan, the equivalent of taking 12,000 gas-powered cars off the road every year.
If approved by the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission, the $58 million Natural Gas Innovation Plan in Minnesota expects to reduce or avoid 54,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide over the lifetime of the plan, the equivalent of taking 12,000 gas-powered cars off the road every year.
If approved by the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission, the $58 million Natural Gas Innovation Plan in Minnesota expects to reduce or avoid 54,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide over the lifetime of the plan, the equivalent of taking 12,000 gas-powered cars off the road every year.