Question 1. CAP AND TRADE ACID RAIN SOLUTIONS
In the 1980s, policymakers in the United States faced a difficult problem: Acid precipitation. For years, Midwestern lawmakers had the "whip hand" in the debate over whether to impose acid rain controls on the big, coal-burning utility plants in the Rust Belt (Hager, 1989). Acid compounds and their precursors in the atmosphere and in deposition from the atmosphere represented a major national and international threat to Earth's resources, ecosystems, materials, visibility, and the public health (EPA). Congress and the Executive used scientific information based on multiple studies, recommendations, and findings from the scientific community that identified the major principal sources and precursors of acid precipitation. It was found that the problem originated from emissions of sulfur and nitrogen oxides as byproducts from the use and combustion of fossil fuels (EPA). Unfortunately, when the problem was first uncovered, President......
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