Among the characteristics of the command-and-control approach to pollution reduction is that it is

A. easily adjusted to changes in marginal costs of pollution reduction across firms.
B. less costly than a carbon tax.
C. typically inflexible and thus quite expensive.
D. less costly than cap-and-trade systems.

Answer: C

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