A view of the smoke stack of the 47-year old Cheswick coal-fired power plant in Springdale, Pennsylvania. Local residents complain about the amount of sulphur-dioxide, nitrogen oxide and coal particles originating from the NRG-owned 565-MW power plant that have effected their health and respiratory system. 
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One of the biggest myths about global warming pushed by the President Trump is that climate action benefits other countries much more than us.

But a new study in the journal Nature Climate Change makes clear that, in fact, the reverse is true: There is only one country in the world, India, that benefits more than the United States when carbon pollution is reduced.

The study, “Country-level social cost of carbon,” takes the novel approach of calculating the social cost of carbon (SCC) — “the measure of the economic harm from carbon dioxide emissions” — for each individual country.

This country-level SCC is an estimate of the marginal damage expected to occur in a given country as a consequence of one more metric ton of emissions of carbon dioxide, CO2 — […]