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Banking on Wetlands

A look at the booming industry of wetland mitigation banking, an environmental business program where wetlands can be destroyed in one area as long as they are restored in another.

Wetlands are disappearing at an astonishing rate across the United States. Private companies have come up with a profitable solution to counter the loss. Living on Earth’s Ashley Ahearn reports on the problems and potential of this booming environmental industry known as “wetland mitigation banking.”