To decrease air pollution created from sulfur emissions, your local power plant wishes to build tall smokestacks. The ultimate consequence of this would most likely be
A) biological magnification.
B) dilution of sulfur pollutants in the atmosphere and thus reduction of their effects on the environment.
C) creation of an environmental problem that is a distance from the power plant.
D) a decrease in the pH of local lakes.
Answer: C
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