FTC Offput by Offsets

theodp writes "US corporations and shoppers spent more than $54M last year on credits toward tree planting, wind farms, solar plants and other projects, prompting the FTC to question whether carbon-offset money is well spent. 'There's a heightened potential for deception,' said FTC Chairwoman Deborah Platt Majoras of the green-sounding offers that seem to be confronting consumers at every turn."

Comments

Re:disgusting

[Loopy]

I'd like to see this, too, but you have a better chance of seeing Hillary Clinton swear off dissembling than you do of getting a straight answer anywhere around the global warming debate. Not to mention that even if you did get a fact-filled answer from someone here, it's almost guaranteed to be half the story (with the half not mentioned usually having to do with projected costs to taxpayers and industry).

Re:All Hogwash!

[Cadallin]

Ding Ding Ding! This is exactly what pisses me off when "environmentalists" trash nuclear power. They act like the alternative is everybody using Windmills and solar panels. What is actually going to happen is this: Alaska will ransacked, stripped of oil and forests, and the entire Appalachian Mountain Range will be strip mined for coal. That is the real alternative to nuclear power in the USA.

The Environmentalist-flag waving NIMBY crowd have doomed us to an ecological catastrophe far greater than any Nuclear Disaster in history.