Upwards of 15,000 homes approved or being proposed in high risk wildfire areas potentially in limbo as Judge Taylor issues a tentative ruling on the use of out-of-county carbon offsets to mitigate for the polluting effects of sprawl development in the backcountry. Ruling will be issued Friday and will likely be taken up on appeal. UT’s Joshua Emerson Smith reports.

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