Update: Wildfires more than offset California’s expensive cap-and-trade emissions cuts

We reported last year that California’s wildfires were offsetting the emissions cuts associated with California’s expensive cap-and-trade system. Here’s the 2021 update. At what point will the federal and state government be charged for emissions due to their failure to management public lands so as to reduce acreage burned?

California Air Resources Board (CARB) CO2 emissions chart annotated to include wildfire emissions at a rate of 23 tons per acre burned. Note 2007 and 2019 emissions were so high they are literally “off the chart.”

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