Power Plant Carbon Standard May Bring Counties Millions of Dollars

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June 10, 2016

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Media Highlight

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"For the study, published in the journal PLOS ONE, researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Syracuse University, Resources for the Future, and the Harvard Forest, Harvard University reviewed a plan to reduce emissions based on the EPA's Clean Power Plan."

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