... used in the mines. Local businessmen provided services to the coal mines. Bankers, lawyers, printerm retailer, etc., all conducted dauliy business with the mines. When you consider all of these businesses and people that are involved in the operation of a mine, you can see that mining contributed greatly to the southern Illinois economy. Mine jobs was especially important In bringing personal ... protect the enviroment but what about them. Who was going to help them. Some men were to old to start over again and have struggled from that point on. Many businesses went bankrupt and people ...

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... their "old gasoline," emissions, storm water runoff, and MTBE-contaminated precipitation. Vehicles are not the industry that can benefit from using an alternative fuel, rather than burning traditional gasoline. Big businesses can also use it to their benefit. The government gives a tax break to those who use a more environmentally protective energy source, and the EPA limits the amount of harmful emissions ... ...

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... , it required 39 industrial nations to limit their annual emissions to an average of 7 percentage points over the course of four years. Many of these nations were influenced by large businesses and corporations that opposed the treaty. They hired their own scientists who found evidence that there was no need to limit emissions. Deep emission reductions, according to them, would lower ... ...

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... for poor people in most developing countries. That is terribly wrong. Sweatshops and child workers are caught in a series of exploitation that hardly ever improves their economic conditions. Since international businesses are constantly pressuring suppliers for cheaper measures, workers most often find conditions getting worse instead of better (Sweatshops.org). So, in the long run I guess I am supporting these inhumane circumstances ... ...

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... Acid, Nitric Acid, or other acidic substances. Most acid rains have pHs of 4.3, strong enough to irritate skin. Acid rain flows to streams, lakes, and marshes from forest runoff, fields, businesses and roads. Lakes and streams become acidic when the water itself and its surrounding soils cannot buffer enough to neutralize it. Acid rain causes a cascade of effects that kill aquatic ... ...

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