NARRATOR (Bob Ellison): A partnership for the environment. Holiday food prices. And safe seasonal cooking. Those stories and more in “U-S-D-A Week In Review”.
NARRATOR: U-S-D-A, Chevrolet and Ducks Unlimited are teaming up to improve the environment. Chevy announced at U-S-D-A headquarters that it’s voluntarily buying almost forty thousand tons of carbon credits that it will never cash in.
Greg Martin, Executive Director for Global Public Policy, General Motors: They will not be used to offset emissions related to any vehicle, facilities, products or operations. And that’s the best part of this program, and don’t think for a second I don’t enjoy telling people about that. We take that out of the system and it’s done.
NARRATOR: The money from the sale of the carbon credits is used to compensate ranchers for not using their land in any way that breaks up the soil and releases carbon into the atmosphere....
