Port Authority plans a site to sell offsets
Carbon offsets can fund the planting of trees. Photo via treetechinc.
The Port Authority will announce today that it plans to start a website people can use to buy carbon offsets — credits to offset the pollution caused by their car and plane trips. They’d be the first tolling agency in the country to do this, says the New York Times. The credits would be sold through a vendor TBD.
Over time, the agency hopes to use money it makes off the site, along with its own carbon credits, to fund local renewable energy and cleanup projects, chairman Anthony R. Coscia told the Times.
The Port Authority is aiming to have net-zero carbon emissions by 2010. It installed LED lighting at the Holland Tunnel and George Washington Bridge, built a geothermal-powered building at JFK Airport, and has plans to make Stewart International Airport, a recent acquisition, carbon-neutral.
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