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Carbon Sequestration in Western Ecosystems
December 6, 2012 | Department of the Interior

“Forests, grasslands and shrublands and other ecosystems in the West sequester nearly 100 million tons of carbon each year. Carbon that is absorbed or “sequestered” through natural processes reduces the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The 100 million tons sequestered in western ecosystems is an amount equivalent to – and counterbalances the emissions of – more than 83 million passenger cars a year in the United States, or nearly 5 percent of EPA’s 2010 estimate of the nation’s total greenhouse gas emissions.” Quoted from the Department of the Interior press release.


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