Global warming insanity comes to NYC area

[Green Must Go]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/ny...ll&oref=slogin

Drivers who commute by car between New York and New Jersey can assuage their guilt by buying credits from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to offset their vehicles’ carbon emissions.

At a board meeting on Thursday, the Port Authority announced that it had approved a measure to pay five companies a total of $2.5 million to set up a carbon offset program for the agency.

A Web site where drivers and airline passengers can buy credits to offset carbon emissions they create will be activated in early 2009.

Money from the carbon-offset credits is typically used to plant trees, build windmills, install solar panels and take other measures that may help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The announcement came six months after the agency said it would establish an offset program, the first of its kind in the United States by a toll-collecting agency.

The program is part of the Port Authority’s plan to become carbon neutral by 2010. The agency also wants to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions it generates by 80 percent by 2050.

“We’re deeply committed to being in the national forefront in developing environmentally sustainable practices at our airports, seaports, tunnels and bridges,” Anthony R. Coscia, the chairman of the Port Authority, said in a statement.

To meets its carbon emission targets, the Port Authority will make Stewart International Airport in Orange County, N.Y., a “carbon-negative” airport, install energy-efficient L.E.D. lighting at the Holland Tunnel and the George Washington Bridge, build a geothermal-powered building at Kennedy International Airport and spend $60 million to buy and preserve environmentally sensitive land for public use.

[Mets bs]

Carbon Offset Credits are ****ing bullshit.