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.
Sheldon Whitehouse: “I appreciate that planting trees helps reduce carbon, but it hardly offsets the coal plant next door that is putting out…”
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Whitehouse emphasizes that tree planting cannot compensate for emissions from coal plants.
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