Under a system of marketable pollution permits:
A. firms can trade away their right to pollute.
B. the amount of pollution an individual firm can generate is determined by the number of permits issued to it by the government.
C. the production costs for firms are not affected.
D. the government controls the production process of firms who pollute.
Answer: A
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