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Pacific Gas and Electric Company's ClimateSmart™ program makes largest purchase of greenhouse gas emission reductions in California
Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s ClimateSmart™ program today announced the largest investments in verifiable greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions under California’s rigorous forest carbon sequestration project protocols. With these landmark purchases, PG&E’s ClimateSmart program will purchase 214,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emission reductions, including 200,000 metric tons from The Conservation Fund's Garcia River, located on California's North Coast, and 14,000 metric tons from Sempervirens Fund's Lompico Headwaters Forest, located in Santa Cruz County.
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Memo to candidates: Green-collar jobs mean standing up for people and the planet
Creating enough "green collar jobs" to beat global warming and create real economic opportunity for those who most need it is a tall order.
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Treehuggers and treecuters unite
Small foresters in Washington get a break that might just keep them in business.
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Waddle Ranch in Sierra near Truckee is being preserved
Three months ago, Perry Norris took his 7-year-old son to the Waddle Ranch in the northern Sierra Nevada and pointed out the sweeping panorama of pine forests, pristine meadows, birds and wildlife that make up the Martis Valley.
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Scientists Report Severe Retreat of Arctic Ice
The cap of floating sea ice on the Arctic Ocean this year shrank more than one million square miles below the average minimum area reached in recent decades.
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