When a public agency is considering greenhouse gas emissions and offsets in its environmental review documents for a climate action plan, can it consider offsets that occur outside of the county?  CSAC’s amicus brief argues that answer to this question is yes— “a community’s emissions are those that the local government has the capacity to affect and influence, not simply the emissions that happen to be countable within its boundary.”  CSAC’s brief was prepared by Sonoma County Deputy County Counsel Verne Ball.