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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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