Dealing with Disasters

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Date

May 12, 2016

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Media Highlight

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Econ Focus

"'There's a real trade-off,' says Carolyn Kousky, a fellow at Resources for the Future, a nonpartisan think tank devoted to natural resource and environmental issues. 'If you want people to buy, then you don't want it to be too expensive. But if you're not pricing it at a risk-based level, then it's not going to be a fiscally sound program.'"

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