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  <title><![CDATA[2017's Greenest States]]></title>
  <body><![CDATA[<p>Valerie Thomas, Anderson Interface Professor of Natural Systems&nbsp;in the Ivan Allen College School of Public Policy, was quoted in &ldquo;2017&#39;s Greenest States&rdquo;&nbsp;by&nbsp;<strong>WalletHub</strong>.</p>

<p>Excerpt:</p>

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<p>Eco-friendliness and personal finance are essentially cousins. Not only are our environmental and financial necessities aligned &mdash; providing ourselves with sustainable, clean drinking water and nutritious sustenance, for example &mdash; but we also spend money on both the household and government levels in support of environmental security.</p>

<p>Then there&rsquo;s climate change. We&rsquo;ve already seen a rise in powerful land-bearing storm systems and extreme droughts. But that&rsquo;s just the beginning, as storm surges and other bad weather are expected to cause more than&nbsp;<a href="http://news.sciencemag.org/climate/2014/12/climate-change-could-cost-u-s-coasts-1-trillion-2100" target="_blank">$500 billion</a>&nbsp;in property damage by the year 2100. Climate change will also have a direct impact on our military industrial complex, as nearly all of our East Coast air and naval installations are&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ucsusa.org/global-warming/global-warming-impacts/sea-level-rise-flooding-us-military-bases#.WPBTH1PyuRs" target="_blank">vulnerable to sea-level rise</a>.</p>
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<p>For the full article, read&nbsp;<a href="https://wallethub.com/edu/greenest-states/11987">here</a>.</p>
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