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Minneapolis explores carbon credits to help reforest the city


Minneapolis explores carbon credits to help reforest the city
The city seeks alternatives as a property tax levy to replace its canopy is set to expire at the end of the year 
May 6, 2021 2:29pm
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A divided Minneapolis Park Board voted to work with the nonprofit group Green Minneapolis to create the Twin Cities first tree-planting carbon-offset credit program.
Minneapolis loses about 3,000 trees a year to increasingly destructive storms and invasive pests such as the emerald ash borer. At the same time, the city s Tree Preservation and Restoration Levy, which raised $11.35 million from property taxes over the past eight years to replace some 40,000 trees, is due to expire at the end of this year. ....

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