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Re:California Scrambles to Find Electricity to Offset Plant ... by TrispusAttucks on Saturday October 16, 2021 @01:40PM (#28889680)
Yes!

Scream it from the roof tops. Most think California is green. What they did was outsource energy production to other states. This allowed them to move "dirty energy" from their balance sheet. But moving your coal plant to another state does not reduce GHG production. It only moves it across state lines.

EDIT: [1] Here some context with a link about the different types of GHG measurement methods.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28714396

EDIT: the gist being that if we moved to "B. (Absolute) GHG footprint accounting" we wouldn't be creating policy based on false accounting and those "loopholes" would be obviously misguided.

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