To the right are marginal abatement costs for two firms in the same airshed. Along the horizontal axis, pollution abatement is increasing as are marginal abatement costs.

   Notice that the two firms have different marginal cost curves, possibly due to different technologies or different ages of the facilities . If each firm is required to reduce its pollution by 50%, the marginal cost of the last unit removed is higher for firm 2.

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