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People who join the new fashion for buying carbon offsets will be urged by the Government today to check what they are buying before they hand over the money. Some schemes may be doing environmental damage in the developing world without curbing climate change.

A nonprofit Rumford company is looking at several sites in Maine for a refinery that would turn forest products into clean-burning oil to be used as fuel in electrical plants. The refinery would be the state's first and the world's largest.

Marilyn Leimbach says her 13-year-old daughter, Emily, would sit in front of the computer all day if left to her own devices, playing games and downloading music from iTunes. Leimbach has nothing against technology. She uses a computer at work, so she knows its value, "but there's more to life than computers and technical stuff."

Cass County Land Department waited until the March deadline neared before setting a policy to permit one-year extensions for loggers who want to keep a sale open. The Cass policy the county board approved Tuesday will permit an extension if the sale has been opened and paid in full. This will apply to all sales scheduled to expire in 2007.

Starbucks Coffee Company (NASDAQ:SBUX) announced today that the average price per pound it paid for all its coffee increased from US$1.28 in fiscal year 2005 to US$1.42 ($3.12 per kilogram) in fiscal year 2006. During the same period the industry average "C" (commodity) market price was $1.04 per pound ($2.28 per kilogram).

In a first-of-its-kind alliance that could fundamentally reshape the environmental movement, 20 labor unions with nearly 5 million members are joining forces with a Republican-leaning umbrella group of conservationists -- the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership -- to put pressure on Congress and the Bush administration.

Soon after the government bought or condemned 150,000 acres of east Georgia farmland in the early 1940s to create the mammoth Clark Hill Lake reservoir, foresters began the conversion of dormant cotton plantations to a new cash crop: timber.

The surging popularity of some of the most stunning wilderness lands surrounding Aspen will require tougher management steps, according to the U.S. Forest Service ranger who is leaving the district. The question is when, according to Aspen-Sopris District Ranger Bill Westbrook, who has specialized in recreation issues during his 20-plus year career with the Forest Service.