· Economist John D. Graham, who ran the Office of Management and Budget's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs for five years during the George W. Bush administration, has a long history of emphasizing industry's costs to reduce pollution, while discounting scientific evidence of exposure risks and ignoring the benefits of a cleaner environment.
Conservative critics of environmental rules often overstate the potential costs of pollution controls and discount the benefits.
Critically, by comparing children living in the same rural areas, scientists could discount urban pollution.
Even if we discount future pollution, the Earth does not possess unlimited acreage for us to transform into graveyards for the dregs of our material life, so the less waste that ends up in landfills, the better.
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We also demonstrate that the discounted benefits of local air pollution reduction significantly outweigh those of global climate change mitigation, at least by a factor of 2, but in most cases of our sensitivity analysis much more.
But the thermal and pollution effects of its combustion – in any form – can't be discounted, Jacobson said.
After years of being discounted as an unavoidable cost of economic progress, air pollution is rising up the political and economic agendas, as developing countries grasp that the crisis threatens to cripple their economies and lead to simmering dissent.
While discounting the link to man-made sources of carbon pollution, even leading Republicans will acknowledge that seas are rising, the polar ice caps are melting, hurricanes are getting stronger and weather patterns are becoming more extreme.
Why? Coal-generated-electricity users impose developmental risks from pollutants such as mercury, yet they never compensate victims, like US newborns who suffer $9 billion/year in IQ and discounted-lifetime-earnings (DLE) losses from coal-plant-mercury pollution [ 40].
