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Health Care Savings Can Far Outweigh Costs of Carbon-Cutting Policies
2014-08-25 20:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Implementing policies to curb carbon emissions dramatically cuts health care costs associated with poor air quality in some cases, by more than 10 times the cost of policy implementation, according to new research published in Nature Climate Change. Policies aimed at reducing carbon emissions are as effective as laws targeting polluting compounds like ground-level ozone, also known as smog, and fine particulate matter, the MIT researchers say. An analysis of three climate policies a clean-energy...
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