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Consumer Costs of Going Green
Consumer Costs of Going Green
19 October 2012
Steve Pociask, President of the American Consumer Institute Center for Citizen Research, discusses his organization's new study, "The Monopolization of Forest Certification" and the consequences of public "green certification" policies on consumer welfare.
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