Carbon Positive: Recent proposals to the emerging US cap-and-trade draft legislation suggest that the Senate intends to keep domestic forestry and agriculture offsets as a major component of the climate bill. Senator Debbie Stabenow led the release of a bill that would create a domestic offset program within the federal cap-and-trade legislation. The bill provides some clarity on eligible project types and the use of temporary credits as a mechanism to balance land-use flexibility with offset permanence. On …