NY Times

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Relevant production data — the amount spent on travel, vehicles, gasoline, generators, heating, air-conditioning and shipping — is given to a company, Native Energy, that creates renewable energy projects. After the company calculates carbon emissions, said Elizabeth Kirkscey, associate production executive at Vantage, “we pay them a dollar amount to invest in projects that create sustainable energy, projects that wouldn’t have happened without our investment.