Critics of certain pollution-control regulations have claimed that <b> the money spent over the last decade in order to reduce emissions of carbon monoxide and of volatile organic compounds has been wasted </b>  The evidence they offer in support of this claim might appear compelling: despite the money spent, annual emissions of these pollutants have been increasing steadily
This evidence is far from adequate, however, since <b> over the last decade a substantial number of new industrial facilities that emit these pollutants have been built </b>
The first is a position that the reasoning contends is inadequately supported by the evidence; the second is evidence used to support the reasoning's contention.