Carbon offsets: Landowners’ wave of the future?

December 9, 2007

Sue Peterson and her husband Randy raise cattle from their ranch near Drummond, and are branching out to a non-traditional commodity.

With the help of the National Carbon Offset Coalition, based in Butte, the Petersons will sell carbon offsets. Though you can’t see or touch offsets — and many people are unsure of exactly what they are — national corporations like Ford Motor Co. and DuPont are gobbling them up.

By Holly Michels, of The Montana Standard

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