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So far, the bulk of energy-related economic relief has gone to the fossil fuel industry
Ploy Achakulwisut, Ph.D., is a scientist at the U.S. Center of the Stockholm Environment Institute. She is a lead author of the 2020 Production Gap Report, and a working group member and reviewer of the 2020 Lancet Countdown health and climate change U.S. policy brief. Follow her on Twitter @_aploy.
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