Environmentalists Quit California Panel After Call To Expand GHG Offsets

Two environmentalists have resigned from a California expert panel that is recommending the state expand greenhouse gas offset trading under the cap-and-trade program and potentially other programs, charging the panel was dominated by industry representatives who want to use offsets that may prove to be faulty. Brian Nowicki, California climate policy director at the Center for Biological Diversity, and Neil Tangri, science and policy director at the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives, resigned from the state’s Compliance Offsets Protocol Task...