Pollution from the U.S. Middle West may not only harm New England and

Pollution from the U.S. Middle West may not only harm New England and Canada, it may extend to cause harm to the entire solar system.

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ANSWER

F Because there is a temperature inversion about 8 miles from the Earth at the tropopause, 85 percent of the atmosphere is held within that region, called the troposphere, and so pollution stays there and not very much goes out into space.