Word: hammitt
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...study suggests that the benefits of controlling mercury emissions is a little or a lot larger than the EPA’s report,” said James K. Hammitt ’78, professor of economics and decision sciences at the Harvard School of Public Health, who co-authored the study...
According to Hammitt, the EPA’s report failed to consider the effects of reduced mercury emissions on saltwater fish, and also ignored recent findings on mercury’s damaging effects on the human cardiovascular system...
...certainly aware of these factors, but chose not to quantify them,” Hammitt said...
...Because we don’t know if the effects of mercury emissions on these factors is real or not, we offered several figures to try to say what the benefits would be, conditional on different effects occurring,” Hammitt said...
...James K. Hammitt ’78, Professor of Economics and Decision Sciences...