Climate change is not waiting for anyone, and neither are America’s carbon removal companies. Across the country, a new industry is racing to pull carbon dioxide straight out of the sky and lock it away for good. This is not…
If your company wants to cut its carbon footprint, you have probably heard one phrase again and again: buy carbon credits. But here is the problem. The carbon credit market in America is large, fast moving, and full of different…
Somewhere in Louisiana, a company is injecting captured CO2 a mile underground. Somewhere in Arkansas, a landowner just signed a contract to turn cropland back into forest. Somewhere in Iowa, a farmer changed how they till their fields, and that…
Every time you fill up your gas tank or open a utility bill in California, a carbon price is quietly baked into that number. Most people never notice it. But behind the scenes, the California carbon market is one of…
Every time you hear about a company “buying carbon credits” or a state “capping emissions,” you are looking at a piece of US carbon trading in action. It sounds complicated at first. Allowances, offsets, caps, auctions. The jargon can scare…
If you have ever wondered how companies “pay” to pollute, or how a rice farmer or a forest owner can earn money for protecting trees, the answer usually leads back to one place: the US carbon market. The US carbon…
Every year, American companies spend billions of dollars buying and trading carbon credits. Yet most people still have no idea what a carbon credit actually is, or how the system works. If you have ever wondered how carbon credits USA…
If you have ever seen the term RGGI in a news article about power plants, electricity bills, or state climate policy, you are not alone in wondering what it actually means. RGGI stands for the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, and…