The map above shows air release, or emissions, sites across the United States. These sites include locations such as smokestacks, factories, and high vehicle traffic areas. Which of the statements below best reflects the content in the map?

a. Free riders in the East benefit from relaxed emissions regulations

b. Free riders in the West benefit from relaxed emissions regulations

c. The East has a higher potential for a negative externality to its free resources

d. The West has a higher potential for a negative externality to its free resources

"The West has a higher potential for a negative externality to its free resources" reflects the content in the map.

Option D

Explanation:

A negative externality is a cost that is endured by an outsider as an outcome of a monetary exchange. In an exchange, the maker and customer are the first and second gatherings, and outsiders incorporate any individual, association, property proprietor, or asset that is in a roundabout way influenced.

Externalities are additionally alluded to as overflow impacts, and a negative externality is likewise alluded to as an 'outside cost'.

Externalities ordinarily emerge in circumstances where property rights over resources or assets have not been apportioned, or are unsure. For instance, nobody claims the seas and they are not the private property of anybody, so ships may dirty the ocean unafraid of being indicted.

The significance of building up property rights is fundamental to the thoughts of compelling Peruvian financial expert, Hernando De Soto, De Soto has broadly contended that effective market economies need a far reaching distribution of property rights to empower them to completely create.