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Only improvement beyond that baseline is credited; no historical passage or total congestion-pricing gain.","attribution":"The shared coalition framework assigns WE ACT a subjective 20% central contribution to additional implementation, not credit for the whole coalition. The NYC-EJA report separately assumes 20%; these correlated scenarios are not independent interventions to sum. Existing legal mandates receive no new-gift credit.","uncertainty":"Judgment-based scenario, not a statistical forecast or complete portfolio ranking. Marginal cooling uptake, health protection and campaign additionality are not observed. 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