Local law firm Sullivan & Worcester LLP recently helped the Van Eck Forest Project in northern California -- where 2,200 acres of redwood trees will absorb 500,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions over the next 100 years -- register those 500,000 tons of CO2 as carbon offset credits, the first ever in the state of California. The forest project administrators can, in turn, sell those credits.
"It was like found money," said John Graham, the tax attorney who handled the deal at Boston-based Sullivan & Worcester....MORE
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YUP. That's what the California Bar Journal used as their sub-head for this article.
