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Property rights strike out 'polluter pays'

Opinion: Environmental policy doesn't allow for trade-offs in who should bears costs.

Fri, 07 Jul 2017

It’s hard to count the ways environmental policy is wrong and muddle-headed but let’s tear into a small corner. I don’t expect to convince a single reader but will give it a shot.

“Polluter pays” is a sweet sounding political nostrum that drives much environmental policy. It seems right and

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