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TO THE EDITOR: In his March 5 article “Where have all the trees gone,” Nicolas Platt gives the history of major tree die-offs in the last century, many due to
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Here are 5 areas where the federal government is investing at an unprecedented level to scale the U.S. carbon removal portfolio toward its climate goals.
Investment in rural America will fuel the new climate economy
Many rural counties in the United States face the dual challenges of lagging economic growth and increasingly severe effects of climate change. While urban areas are not uniformly prosperous and rural areas are not uniformly poor, rural communities on average lag behind their urban counterparts on most key economic indicators — from poverty rates to labor force participation. Rural areas represent 86% of persistent poverty counties in the U.S., while over 50% of rural Black residents live in economically distressed counties. These challenges have been intensified by economic losses from the...