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The US has new guidelines for carbon offsets.
Offsets are supposed to allow companies and consumers to cancel out some of their CO2 emissions — but are notorious for failing. Plant a tree to capture carbon, for example, and that tree could eventually release all the CO2 if it doesn’t survive for hundreds of years.
The Biden administration laid out new guidelines today aimed at making offsets work, although many environmental advocates are still skeptical.
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