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My 2006 Green Cites book - -- on the rising desirability of great places to live. Ed Glaeser and I explore the carbon footprint implications of this dynamic in this paper; Glaeser, Edward L. The greenness of cities: Carbondioxide emissions and urban development ," Journal of Urban Economics , Elsevier, vol.
EPA , the landmark 2007 decision that said the EPA has the authority to regulate carbondioxide emitted from new motor vehicles. Carbondioxide is not a pollutant. Carbondioxide is not harmful to ordinary things, to human beings, or to animals, or to plants. All of us are exhaling carbondioxide right now.
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