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Jack Reed: “As long as the market does not take into account the costs that we all bear for some of these activities, there isn't an…”

On the recordMarch 9, 2016
As long as the market does not take into account the costs that we all bear for some of these activities, there isn't an incentive, a market incentive to reduce them.
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Jack Reed
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Reed discusses the lack of market incentives to address pollution costs.

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