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Want to prevent California’s looming flood disaster? Grow a marsh.

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When Jones Tract, a delta island, flooded in 2004, the damage cost $90 million to fix. Fossil fuels, you might say, are an aged form of blue carbon. Established in 2006 by the law AB32, the cap-and-trade system seeks to reduce the state’s greenhouse gas emissions by harnessing market forces.

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