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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. The state establishes an upper limit on greenhouse gas pollution — the cap — and then gives polluters a certain number of allowances to emit the offending gases.

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