Nature's Bounty
Each day at 5 p.m. we collect the five top food and supplement headlines of the day, making it easy for you to catch up on today's most important natural products industry news.
The climate solution actually adding millions of tons of carbon into the atmosphere
Emerging research from CarbonPlan reveals that California’s climate policy has generated between 20 million and 39 million carbon credits that aren’t achieving tangible carbon savings, and yet companies can still buy these forest offsets to justify their polluting actions. These so-called "ghost credits" don't preserve additional carbon in forests, but they are allowing polluters to emit far more toxic pollutants and emissions. ProPublica argues that further studies are needed regarding the detriments of carbon offset programs, especially now that President Biden is pressing forward with his climate change mitigation agenda.