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On the recordJuly 15, 2015
So how do you do the indirect benefits as well as indirect costs when you deal with something like the social cost of carbon?
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James Lankford
Republican · Oklahoma

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Lankford questions how indirect benefits and costs are calculated in relation to the social cost of carbon.

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