MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM • August 13, 2023
Maine has at least 54,000 acres, or 84 square miles, of so-called blue carbon reservoirs: salt marsh, eelgrass beds and even phragmites that store at least 1.7 million tons of carbon in the soil and vegetation. That much carbon is equal to the annual carbon emissions of 1.25 million passenger cars. The Maine projections are part of a new first-of-its-kind inventory of New England’s coastal blue carbon reservoirs from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.