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While no one maintains that carbon dioxide is a hazardous pollutant dangerous to local communities, Alegría De La Cruz, a lawyer for the Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment, said that carbon dioxide rules often have “co-benefits” in terms of controlling other, more immediately toxic air pollutants. Creating different incentives or mandates for regulating carbon dioxide might thus be more beneficial for those communities, Ms. De La Cruz said. Wow....just....fucking wow.