D’oro, Rachel. “Alaska Natives to Protect Land for California Carbon Program.” Coal News. Pennenergy, 27 Jan. 2017. Web. 13 Mar. 2017
California has purchased 115,000 acres in Alaska to use for credits in the cap and trade program. The cap and trade program is a system where states can only emit a certain amount of pollution and if they go over they must purchase credits elsewhere. The coal rights to 62,000 acres of the land will be given to the nature conservancy land trust.
The impact this will have is that it will help reduce the impact of coal mining on the environment. There will be a precedent set from this to encourage other states to purchase credits to preserve the environmen
This is an interesting method. While it will preserve land and theoretically counteract the carbon emissions from burning coal. I think there needs to be more urgency in a movement to end the reliance on coal energy.