Moments ago environmental organization Food & Water Watch released a new report detailing a fatal flaw in California’s carbon offset program: over half of the country’s forests that are set aside to ...

Jackeline Luna is a former senior producer for video series. Before joining the Los Angeles Times, she interned for Politico, ABC7 and the Mercury News. She graduated from UC Berkeley with a master’s ...

Carbon offsets purport to save forests and “cancel out” climate pollution. Wildfires risk more emissions from what is already a greenwashing scam. Carbon offsets purport to save forests and “cancel ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The California Air Resources Board sent a letter to ...

What Are Carbon Offsets, and What Would a Successful Carbon Offsets Program Look Like? What are carbon offsets? How do they reduce greenhouse gas emissions? And what would a successful carbon offsets ...

After some initial fits and starts, the California Air Resources Board is making significant progress in crafting various elements of AB 32 the state’s landmark Global Warming Solutions Act and in ...

Under the program, corporates can purchase carbon offsets that support projects run by non-profit organizations Carbonfund.org Foundation and Carbon Footprint. Those projects feature a variety of ...

California is leading the world in confronting climate change. The state’s Compliance Offset Program gives companies “credits” for projects that theoretically reduce greenhouse gases. But scientists ...