According to the Case in Point titled "Trading Pollution Rights," the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments:
A) established the first large-scale pollution control program that relied on tradable pollution permits.
B) had failed to implement incentive approaches to pollution control, and so they had to be repealed and replaced in the late 1990s.
C) imposed strong fines for any individual or firm that generated air pollution emissions without a permit.
D) increased the level of pollution permitted in the continental United States and then sold rights to the higher levels.
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