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Inside WCI: Biomass

Posted on August 12, 2008

Why treat all forms of carbon emissions alike?By Eric de PlaceThis is the seventh in a short series of posts that explain some important but often overlooked policy issues in the Western Climate Initiative -- the West's regional cap-and-trade system.Earlier in this series, I've worried that WCI is waiting too long to include some major sources of climate pollution in their program. But worse, they are also proposing to completely ignore some sources of emissions. Early on, the latest draft contains this terse statement:Carbon dioxide emissions from the combustion of biomass or biofuel are not ...

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