How the U.S. House blew $89,000 in public money on highly questionable "carbon offsets"

See the sordid details in the Washington Post article here.

Excerpt:

Some of the money went to farmers in North Dakota, for tilling practices that keep carbon buried in the soil. But some farmers were already doing this, for other reasons, before the House paid a cent.

Other funds went to Iowa, where a power plant had been temporarily rejiggered to burn more cleanly. But that test project had ended more than a year before the money arrived.