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Curbing climate change has a dollar value — here's how and why we measure it

  • Written by Joseph Aldy, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University
imageCoal train in Missouri. Assigning a social cost to carbon emissions puts a price on activities that generate them, such as burning fossil fuels.Scott Granneman/Flickr, CC BY-SA

President Trump is expected to issue an executive order soon to reverse Obama-era rules to cut carbon pollution, including a moratorium on leasing public lands for coal...

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