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How energy efficiency delivers green dividends in red and blue states

  • Written by David Cash, Dean, John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston
Installing smart meters saves energy and creates jobs.AP Photo/Gerry Broome

The Green New Deal, a bundle of proposed policies that would combat climate change, create green jobs and address economic inequities, is eliciting the usual partisan debate over what to do about global warming.

But one humble and noncontroversial way to reduce carbon...

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