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It recalculated gross domestic product, or G.D.P., to reflect the cost of pollution.
If these were included, the cost of pollution could more than double.
And the per-ton cost of pollution reductions from vehicles is only a fraction of the cost of reductions from sources like power plants.
For years, upwind states could dump part of the cost of pollution onto their neighbours, while reaping all the benefits of the factories that caused it.
It does not help that the Clean Air Act does not allow the cost of pollution controls to be taken into account when setting certain standards.
According to news reports, Chinese officials cut out sections of a 2007 report called "Cost of Pollution in China" that discussed premature deaths.
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Second, the cost of pollution-intensive technologies is staggering.
Because some companies can rein in their emissions more easily or at less cost than other businesses, they can profit by selling extra permits through the market to companies that find the cost of pollution-control technology prohibitive.
The point here is that the government supports these efforts, instead of denying the existence of human-caused climate change or the true cost of pollution-related disease, deaths, and wars -- which seems to be the official policy of the US.
In its original emergence the Polluter Pays Principle aims at determining how the costs of pollution prevention and control must be allocated: the polluter must pay.
Society bears the costs of pollution and wasted time.
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