HUMAN HEALTH IMPACTS: mining releases billions of pounds o toxic chemicals into the environment each year.
ECONOMIC IMPACTS: mining is no longer job creating cost of benefits for western communities
STATE IMPACTS: community health economic impacts of hard rock mining affected states on these pages.
WILDLIFE IMPACTS: toxic pollution impacts wildlife acid can deaden entire streams killing aquatic life can harm birds and animals from pollution in the air the average the average mine destroys over a thousand acres of land with waste piles open pits
TRANSPORTATION: transportation for every part of the pencils that we use causes pollution.trucks transport the lumber and the trees and the parts of the pencil then when the pencil is put together trucks transport the pencils o the stores
ECONOMIC IMPACTS: mining is no longer job creating cost of benefits for western communities
STATE IMPACTS: community health economic impacts of hard rock mining affected states on these pages.
WILDLIFE IMPACTS: toxic pollution impacts wildlife acid can deaden entire streams killing aquatic life can harm birds and animals from pollution in the air the average the average mine destroys over a thousand acres of land with waste piles open pits
TRANSPORTATION: transportation for every part of the pencils that we use causes pollution.trucks transport the lumber and the trees and the parts of the pencil then when the pencil is put together trucks transport the pencils o the stores