Critical Reasoning

Editorial: Regulations recently imposed by the government of Risemia call for unprecedented reductions in the amounts of pollutants manufacturers are allowed to discharge into the environment. It will take costly new pollution control equipment requiring expensive maintenance to comply with these regulations. Resultant price increases for Risemian manufactured goods will lead to the loss of some export markets.Clearly therefore, annual exports of Risemian manufactured goods will in the future occur at diminished levels.

Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument in the editorial?

A. the need to comply with the new regulations will stimulate the development within Risemia of new pollution control equipment for which a strong worldwide demand is likely to emerge.
B. the proposed regulations include a schedule of fines for noncompliance that escalate steeply in cases of repeated noncompliance.
C. Savings from utilizing the chemicals captured by the pollution control equipment will remain far below the cost of maintaining the equipment.
D. By international standards, the levels of pollutants currently emitted by some of Risemia's manufacturing plants are not considered excessive.
E. The stockholders of most of Risemia's manufacturing corporations exert substantial pressure on the corporations to comply with environmental laws.

I am quite confused in how to figure out the best option, can some experts help?

OA A

Option A - CORRECT.
This option has seriously weaken the Editorial argument. The need to comply with the new regulations will however stimulate the development within Risemia of new pollution control equipment for which a strong worldwide demand in products produced in Risemia is likely to emerge. However, this plan can't be accomplished immediately not until the producers are able to gain their balance from latest cost they are about to incur due to new pollution regulation management. Meanwhile in the main time, Export system in Risemia will surely decline due to Resultant price increases for Risemian manufactured goods will lead to the loss of some export markets.

Option B - INCORRECT.
The proposed regulations sure include a schedule of fines for noncompliance that escalate steeply in cases of repeated noncompliance. But this option has been unable to relate with the business effect the new regulation is going to cause.

Option C - INCORRECT.
The cost of maintenance of the equipment is surely going to increase far beyond the savings from utilizing the chemicals captured by the pollution control equipment.

Option D - INCORRECT.
By international standards, the levels of pollutants currently emitted by some of Risemia's manufacturing plants are not considered excessive, because they want imported products to be at the cheapest rate without considering the effects of this pollution on the people of Risemia.

Option E - INCORRECT.
The stockholders of most of Risemia's manufacturing corporations exert substantial pressure on the corporations to comply with environmental laws so as to avoid the fines from the pollution management, but this opinion of the stockholders is only of the interest to the government but will sure affect the production ability of the company.