| Group to offset CO2
emissions with wind power, planting trees June 22 -- A southern environmental group is practicing what it preaches, making its business operations carbon-neutral in 2006. The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy has partnered with Austin, Texas-based Green Mountain Energy Co. to offset 100 percent of the estimated carbon dioxide emissions from its operations. The group is buying wind power and planting trees to avoid more than 330,000 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions through Green Mountain Energy´s eMission Solutions division. The alliance is estimating its carbon dioxide emission from its office electricity and refrigerant use and its employees´ emissions from commuting, travel and natural gas usage. It has fifteen staff members in offices in Atlanta; Asheville, N.C.; Knoxville, Tenn.; Raleigh, S.C.; and Savannah, Ga.
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