When the EPA was informed of Borden s proceedings, they filed a lawsuit against them to pay fines to help clean up the damage they created. Borden was fined 3.6 million dollars and agreed to spend 3 million dollars to clean-up contamination to the ground water. The state claims that Borden creates jobs for residents and brings in money to support the economy. No one can go outside. If concentrations in the air are condensed enough to be harmful to humans, then imagine the effects it has on the life indigenous to the area.
Organisms starve to death because air and water pollution contaminates their food supply.
In ecosystems dependent on rivers for shelter and food, many organisms are dying and being left homeless because sediments and wastes from industries are piling up and clogging the waterway. The theory is that if the taxes are lifted, then more jobs can be added because there is more money to pay for them, and the state will be able to compete with other large corporations and eventually surpass them in capital gain. Local governments over-rely on material production, which causes them to lift property taxes on Capitalist industries that produce hazards to the surrounding ecosystem. Pesticides also pollute the environment and cause defects in organisms but are still being used because they guarantee a crop yield and are the cheapest form of fertilizer that will allow a definite gain of profit. A bill was presented to the House of Representatives asking them to continue to allow the use of harmful pesticides.