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POLITICAL LOBBYING

Costs of climate politics

Corporations devote massive amounts of resources to lobby policy makers in the United States. New research highlights the channels through which direct lobbying has blocked climate legislation, and evaluates the resulting social welfare loss.

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Prieur, F. Costs of climate politics. Nat. Clim. Chang. 9, 436–437 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0487-8

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