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Climate change policies pay for themselves, study says
2014-08-25 23:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: President Obamas controversial plan to phase out coal and slash carbon emissions is an expensive one. But a new study suggests it could be cheaper than the alternative: pollution, poor air quality, and accompanying health costs. Cutting emissions might lower health spending so drastically that the US could end up saving ten times more than it would cost to implement carbon reductions, according to a Massachusetts Institute of Technology study published Sunday in the journal Nature Climate Change....
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