To help reduce emissions that lead to acid precipitation, the United States implemented ____ by which companies that reduced their emissions could sell allowances to other companies that had yet to do so

a. the Montreal Protocol
b. the Kyoto Protocol
c. the AQI
d. a “cap and trade” system
e. carbon offset program


ANSWER: d

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