1.As you finish your college degree, you learn that the mountains behind your childhood home in Kentucky were chosen as a new copper mining site using open-pit mining method. Your parents, who still live there, are worried for their health and safety and do not want to lose the beautiful forested creek and ravine behind their property. However, your brother is out of work and could use a steady, well-paying mining job. Based on what you learned in the lecture, what would you attempt to do in this situation?
2.Suppose that you are the head of your county health department, and the EPA informs you that your country has failed to meet the national ambient air quality standards for ozone, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen dioxide. Your country is partly rural but is home to a city of 200,000 people and ten sprawling suburbs. There are several large and aging coal-fired power plants, a number of factories with advanced pollution control technology, and no public transportation system. Describe at least three steps you would urge the county government to take to meet the air quality standards. Explain specifically what effects you would expect each of these steps to have and why.