1. Cap and Trade - Greenhouse Gas Mitigation
The reason why Cap and Trade came to be, was due to the problems in 1980, when plants were sending up clouds of sulfur dioxide, and was coming back to Earth in the form of acid rain. ... Congress kept putting out many different acid rain bills. ... Acid rain emissions fell by 3 million tons, which was ahead of the schedule required by law. Over 20 years later, since the signing of the Clean Air Act of 1990, this system of Cap and Trade is still allowing polluters to figure out the least expensive way to reduce acid rain emissions. ... And by cutting acid rain in half, it generated an estimate...
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