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MIT Joint Program faculty affiliate Noelle Selin authors a Policy Forum paper in the journal Science
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Study by Joint Program-affiliated researchers highlights need for mercury emissions-control policy
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A 4 percent reduction per year in carbon dioxide emissions should net $339 billion in health savings in 2030, researchers estimate
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MIT Joint Program-affiliated researchers Noelle Selin and Amanda Giang contribute to multidisciplinary study of regulatory impacts on Great Lakes mercury
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Joint Program projects advance water and food security
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MIT researchers are working with the Mexican government on carbon pricing options to meet the country’s climate goals under the Paris Agreement
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Atmospheric chemist takes on pollutants and the global treaties written to control them
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Presentations to center on Earth system science, infrastructure resilience and air quality
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With IPL support, MIT Associate Professor Noelle Selin led a delegation of MIT researchers to the first conference on the Minamata Convention on Mercury
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Amanda Giang models a pollutant’s pathways and assesses mitigation policies
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Joint Program researcher Valerie Karplus awarded grant for project focusing on the response of industrial firms to energy-efficiency policies
Using detailed data from firms in China, Germany, and the United Kingdom, Karplus will investigate what characteristics of firms determine how policy affects production costs and firm competitiveness. Earlier seed grant led to U.S. EPA funding for Noelle Selin and Susan Solomon's project identifying new ways to evaluate the success of emissions-control measures tailored to reduce particulate pollution.
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Environmental Science & Technology
Environmental Science & Technology's 2016 Best Policy Paper co-authored by Joint Program researchers
Study showed long-lasting health, economic impacts of lead emissions from U.S. general aviation flights
Paper: Philip J. Wolfe, Amanda Giang, Akshay Ashok, Noelle E. Selin, and Steven R. H. Barrett. Costs of IQ Loss from Leaded Aviation Gasoline Emissions. Environ. Sci. Technol., 2016, 50 (17), 9026–9033. dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.6b02910.