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Sheldon Whitehouse: I appreciate that planting trees helps reduce carbon, but it hardly offsets the coal plant next door that is putting out…

On the recordJune 2, 2014
I appreciate that planting trees helps reduce carbon, but it hardly offsets the coal plant next door that is putting out tens of thousands of tons of carbon dioxide.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

Editor's note · Context

Whitehouse emphasizes that tree planting cannot compensate for emissions from coal plants.

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