Economist’s Study Noted in Newspaper Report on Rise in Toxins
A 2010 report by Mary Davis, a UMaine adjunct professor of economics, was noted in a Kennebec Journal story linking the rise in toxins in Maine’s air with an increase in the productivity of Maine’s pulp mills. The 2010 Economic Assessment of Children’s Health and the Environment in Maine, a report published in the Maine Policy Review, found childhood illnesses associated with toxic environmental exposures costs Maine at least $380 million a year.
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