(Last Word) in a Cap-And-Trade Program

question 180

Multiple Choice

(Last Word) In a cap-and-trade program,

• A) government fixes the price of pollution rights and firms choose how many permits to purchase.
• B) government fixes the maximum amount of a pollutant that firms can discharge and issues permits that firms can buy from and sell to each other.
• C) each firm is provided a fixed number of permits for a particular pollutant and no individual firm is allowed to acquire additional permits.
• D) firms can emit whatever type of pollutant they want, so long as the total tonnage does not exceed a government-established quantity.

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