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Do climate policies ‘kill jobs’? An economist on why they don’t cause massive unemployment

  • Written by Garth Heutel, Associate Professor of Economics, Georgia State University

Climate change will hammer the U.S. economy unless there’s swift action to rein in greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels, according to the latest National Climate Assessment report.

But President Donald Trump has dismissed this forecast, even though his own administration released a comprehensive synthesis of the best available...

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