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Alan Grayson: “Pollution is an externality. It's basically like dumping your trash in your neighbor's backyard.”

On the recordJune 23, 2015
Pollution is an externality. It's basically like dumping your trash in your neighbor's backyard.
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Alan Grayson
Florida

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Grayson describes pollution from power plants as an external cost to society.

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