While I was filling out my NCAA brackets Oikos was reading Gristmill

From Oikos via Gristmill:

... a report very quietly released by the US EPA (there's remarkably little mainstream coverage of it) has found that if emissions were cut by 56% by 2050, US GDP would grow by 80% between now and then, compared to 81% if emissions were allowed to increase on a business-as-usual basis.

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[JT]

I can't find the statistic they reference. Actually it appears that GDP would be from 2.3 percent lower to nearly 7 percent lower than the base projections, or $1 trillion to $3 trillion below expected GDP (p. 62). There are a lot of numbers, so I could be missing it.

One indication that Grist's numbers are funky is this claim (which you have debunked before): "The 80 percent figure associated with a carbon cap doesn't even measure the important economic boom expected from the Climate Security Act's aggressive investment in clean energy jobs. "