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California polluters may soon buy carbon “offsets” from the Amazon — is that ethical?

  • Written by Maron Greenleaf, Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer, Dartmouth College
The El Segundo Chevron oil refinery, left, and the Bom Futuro National Forest, right.Pedro Szekely/WikimediaCommons, Reuters/Nacho Doce

Fires in the Brazilian Amazon have outraged the world. But what can people living far from the world’s largest rainforest do to save it?

California thinks it has an answer.

On Sept. 19, the California Air...

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