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'Economists for Brexit' launch campaign
2016-04-28 08:10:24| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
A group of eight influential economists have thrown their support behind the Leave campaign in the UK's referendum on EU membership.
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Climate Economists React to Obamas Proposed Oil Tax
2016-02-06 14:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: On Thursday, President Obama dropped a surprise in his transportation plan as part of his annual budget. The plan -- dubbed the 21st Century Clean Transportation System -- calls for $300 billion in investments over the next decade in high speed rail, driverless cars and mass transit across the U.S. That would cut down on carbon pollution and could help the U.S. meet its 10-year climate goal of reducing carbon emissions 26 to 28 percent below 2005 levels. The 5-year cost of a barrel of crude...
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Policy Brief By Brattle Economists Examines Compliance And Implementation Options Under EPA's Clean Power Plan
2016-01-11 01:41:42| pollutiononline Home Page
Economists at the global consulting firmThe Brattle Groupissued apolicy brieftoday that examines the compliance and implementation challenges facing states and utilities under the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) proposed CO2emissions standards for existing fossil units under the Clean Air Act (CAA) Section 111(d), known as the Clean Power Plan (CPP)
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95% consensus of expert economists: cut carbon pollution
2016-01-04 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: he Institute for Policy Integrity at the New York University (NYU) School of Law recently published a report summarizing a survey of economists with climate expertise. The report was a follow-up and expansion of a similar survey conducted in 2009 by the same institute. The key finding: theres a strong consensus among climate economics experts that we should put a price on carbon pollution to curb the expensive costs of climate change. The survey participants included economists who have published...
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VIDEO: Economists were 'itching' for rate hike
2015-12-16 23:57:05| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Former Chairman of the Council of Economic Adviser Austan Goolsbee says there were hopes the Fed would raise rates despite worries over jobs, inflation and housing.
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