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Sun shines through the canopy in the Tongass National Forest, which borders lands owned by the Juneau-based Alaska Native regional corporation Sealaska. (Brian Logan / U.S. Forest Service)
JUNEAU — The Dunleavy administration has finalized regulations to start selling carbon offset credits on state land.
The Legislature approved Senate Bill 48 in May last year to allow the state to establish a carbon offset program. New state regulations are set to go into effect July 19. In Haines, a yearlong public process has started to amend the state forest management plan to allow for carbon offsets.
Trevor Fulton, the state’s carbon offset program manager, said it would likely take another 18 months to two years for the state to start selling carbon credits…