{"id":5037,"date":"2016-02-23T18:29:19","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T18:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/?p=5037"},"modified":"2019-05-09T18:36:53","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T18:36:53","slug":"clinics-jacobs-goho-co-author-commentary-on-health-benefits-of-mercury-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/2016\/02\/23\/clinics-jacobs-goho-co-author-commentary-on-health-benefits-of-mercury-regulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinic&#8217;s Jacobs, Goho Co-Author Commentary on Health Benefits of Mercury Regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clinic Director Wendy Jacobs and Staff Attorney Shaun Goho recently co-authored a perspective commentary with faculty from several universities and departments, including Harvard&#8217;s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and Syracuse University&#8217;s College of Engineering and Computer Science, on how the benefits associated with mercury emissions reductions outweigh the costs to industry.\u00a0 The commentary draws three conclusions:\u00a0 1) the societal benefits of implementing Mercury Air Toxics Standards are much larger than estimated; 2) the unquantified benefits to human health and wildlife are substantial; and 3) the EPA underestimated the benefits of mercury reduction from coal-fired power plants.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seas.harvard.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/supreme-court-decision-may-change-how-epa-regulates-hazardous-air-pollutants\">here<\/a> for the news article from Harvard SEAS on the commentary.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/files\/2016\/02\/Sunderland_Benefits-Regulating-Haz-Air-Pollutants.pdf\">here<\/a> to view the commentary from the Clinic&#8217;s Publications page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clinic Director Wendy Jacobs and Staff Attorney Shaun Goho recently co-authored a perspective commentary with faculty from several universities and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clinic-publications","category-news","post-archive"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}