A local manufacturing plant that emitted sulfur dioxide was forced to stop production because it did not comply with local clean air standards. This decision provides an example of

a. a direct regulation of an externality.
b. corrective taxes.
c. a Coase theorem solution to an externality.
d. the misuse of a subsidy.

a

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