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Carbon offsets bring new investment to Appalachia’s coal fields, but most Appalachians aren’t benefiting

  • Written by Gabe Schwartzman, Assistant Professor of Geography and Sustainability, University of Tennessee
Carbon offsets bring new investment to Appalachia’s coal fields, but most Appalachians aren’t benefitingFor decades, railroad tracks carried coal from eastern Tennessee to power plants in the eastern U.S.Appalachian Voices, CC BY

Central Appalachia is home to the third-largest concentration of forest carbon offsets traded on the California carbon market. But while these projects bring new investments to Appalachia, most people in Appalachia are not...

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