In an Effort to Clean Up the Amount of Sulfates

question 22

Essay

In an effort to clean up the amount of sulfates introduced into the atmosphere the government has ruled that all polluters install smoke stack scrubbers on their smoke stacks and mandated a pollution limit on the amount of sulfates per parts of air that may be legally emitted into the atmosphere. Suppose some of the polluters have found a more efficient way to eliminate the pollution. How will this discovery change the amount of sulfates emitted into the atmosphere?

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