A green oil tanker? Here's where carbon offsets get silly

Plus, will Mexico's polluting ways spark a trade war over global warming?

Sovcomflot’s Gagarin Prospect is the lead vessel in a series of dual-fuelled Green Funnel Aframax tankers -- one of two in the series on long-term charter to Shell. Photo: Sovcomflot.

. . . . The term greenwashing — to paint something as being environmentally friendly when it probably is not — has gotten a lot of play over the past year or so. Among thos…