Which of the following statements about the problem of acid rain is accurate?

A) The 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act addressed the problem of acid rain by requiring the installation of scrubbers in most electric generating facilities.
B) The 1970 Clean Air Act addressed the problem of acid rain by providing for an emission trading scheme.
C) The 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act addressed the problem of acid rain by instructing electric generating facilities to build tall smokestacks.
D) The 1970 Clean Air Act addressed the problem of acid rain by requiring the installation of clean-coal technologies.

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Haleigh Foskey · Accepted Answer

Final Answer : A, Explanation :  The 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act addressed acid deposition by,among other things,placing a cap on the overall emissions of the contributors to it (the oxides of sulfur and nitrogen)and requiring electric utilities to reduce their emissions to specified levels in two steps over the next decade.This required most electric generating facilities in the country to install large control devices known as scrubbers,to switch to lower sulfur coal,or to install so-called clean coal technologies.

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