Ecotrust in the News
Oregon Public Broadcasting
May 21, 2009
by Rob Manning
Everybody Talks About Climate Change, But What Can We Do About It?
From Salem to Washington, D.C., the debate over whether humans are causing climate change appears to have given way to another debate: what to do about it. Rob Manning reports on a new study from an Oregon-led team of scientists.
The new report from the Economics for Equity and the Environment Network is meant to respond to ads like this one, funded by the conservative Institute for Energy Research.
Ad: “Some in Congress are trying to make American energy scarce, and even more expensive, with new taxes and costly regulations. That’s the wrong approach...."
That assumption -- that limiting carbon will slow economic growth -- is not backed up by fact, according to new study from the E3 network.
Kristen Sheeran co-authored the study, with two other economics Phd's, from Tufts University in Boston. Sheeran works out of the non-profit Ecotrust’s Portland office.
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