According to the Case in Point Titled "Trading Pollution Rights

question 31

Multiple Choice

According to the Case in Point titled "Trading Pollution Rights," the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments:

• A)established the first large-scale pollution control program that relied on tradable pollution permits.
• B)had failed to implement incentive approaches to pollution control, and so they had to be repealed and replaced in the late 1990s.
• C)imposed strong fines for any individual or firm that generated air pollution emissions without a permit.
• D)increased the level of pollution permitted in the continental United States and then sold rights to the higher levels.

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