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FRONTLINE/World journeys to the Amazon and the remote rainforests of Brazil, where several major American companies are on the hunt for ways to capture an increasingly valuable commodity — carbon — as Congress considers new legislation that would force them to pay for their pollution.
FRONTLINE/World journeys to the Amazon and the remote rainforests
of Brazil, where several major American companies are on the hunt
for ways to capture an increasingly valuable commodity - carbon -
as Congress considers new legislation that would force them to pay
for their pollution. In a joint project with the Center for
Investigative Reporting, reporter Mark Schapiro visits a number of
demonstration projects that help explore the promise and potential
pitfalls of this new trade in trees. Also in this hour: On the
two-year anniversary of the immigration raid at a kosher
meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa - one of the largest workplace
raids in history - a look at the human impact of the crackdown on
both sides of the border. And, in Uganda, a new approach to the
threat of diseases that cross the species barrier.