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Carbon neutral Hill office.

Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT) yesterday “announced that he was installing low-energy fluorescent bulbs, turning down the office temperature, and spending $672 of his own money to buy ‘carbon credits’ from two Vermont renewable energy projects that are part of an emerging business practice called carbon trading.”

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