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EPA Moves to Reduce Acid Rain: The Environmental Protection Agency launched its first attack on acid rain, ordering power plants to halve their emissions of sulfur dioxide by 2010. The rules also establish the first national trading program in pollution permits. Under the system, polluters that emit less than regulatory levels can sell their pollution permits to those that do not meet the limits. Under the rules, power plants must cut their emissions of sulfur dioxide, the main cause of acid rain, to 8.9 million tons by 2010.
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