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November 18, 2014

Chevrolet is paying farmers to keep prairie as grassland

  • Preserving grasslands keeps carbon bottled up and preserves habitat for waterfowl and other wildlife.

    • TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Chevrolet has become the first corporate participant in a public-private initiative that pays farmers not to convert natural prairie to large-scale crop production, which would release gases that are warming the planet, officials said Monday.

    The automaker, a division of General Motors, said it has bought more than 39,000 metric tons of carbon credits from North Dakota ranchers in the prairie pothole region, a broad expanse of grasslands and wetlands reaching across the northern Great Plains and parts of Canada.


     
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