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Elizabeth Esty: “The social cost of carbon is a metric used to value the damage caused by emitting 1 ton of carbon dioxide into the…”

On the recordFebruary 27, 2017
The social cost of carbon is a metric used to value the damage caused by emitting 1 ton of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in a year.
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Elizabeth Esty
Democratic · Connecticut

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Esty explains the importance of the social cost of carbon for regulatory analysis.

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