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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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Carbon-cutting policies could save billions in healthcare costs
2014-08-25 17:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Efforts launched to curb greenhouse gas emissions could pay for themselves, according to a new study investigating the potential healthcare savings of reductions in pollution. It is already widely accepted by scientists that carbon-cutting policies, introduced primarily to mitigate climate change, can have positive impacts on human health. Experts have suggested that a reduction in harmful air pollution would cut the rates of conditions such as asthma and other health problems, possibly including...
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MIT study finds air quality co-benefits of US carbon policies can significantly offset costs, depending upon the policy
2014-08-25 12:30:35| Green Car Congress
Vectren division sale costs 120 miners their jobs
2014-08-23 20:13:52| Energy - Topix.net
Evansville-based Vectren Corp. says 120 southwestern Indiana coal miners will lose their jobs by month's end as the natural-gas utility completes the sale of its coal-mining subsidiary.
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Day trips: Keeping the costs down
2014-08-22 22:53:18| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
How to reduce those extra costs of a day trip
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