A Taxonomy of Oil Spill Costs: What are the Likely Costs of theDeepwater Horizon Spill?

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June 22, 2010

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Mark A. Cohen

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Mark A. Cohen

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Mark A. Cohen is a university fellow at RFF who served as Vice President for research from 2008 to 2011. He is also an expert on government enforcement of policy mandates.

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