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Measuring the Costs and the Benefits of Energy Development

This piece describes what sorts of tools there could possibly be for measuring the costs and benefits of energy development, given the fact that the "costs" of new energy infrastructure include both measurable and seemingly impossible to measure environmental and social impacts—everything from air and water pollution levels, acres of wetlands, and effects on views to social justice and environmental racism.

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  • Jonathan Lesser, Bates White, LLC (more info)

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